November 13, 2025

Nation Building | Book by former St. Maarten Governor Eugene Holiday chronicles island attaining Country Status

With this latest book, “Nation Building, Our Challenges, Resilience and Responsibility”, in short Nation Building, author drs. Eugene B. Holiday delivers a socio-political history book covering significant developments of the first two decades of 21st century Sint Maarten and provides building blocks for the nation’s further development.

November 13, 2025

Statia Alliance reveals names of Afrikan ancestors of Golden Rock plantation

The St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance reveals the names, ages, professions, and religious beliefs of 96 ancestors who were once connected to the Golden Rock plantation on St. Eustatius. This is part of the project “Remember Statia: Tracing Our Origins” that encourages the St. Eustatius community to make the Afrikan history of the island more visible and more personal.

November 13, 2025

St. Maarten singer Kenyo brings a ‘message of unity’ to opening of Reflecting on Covid expo in Brabant Friday

AMSTERDAM — When Dutch king Willem Alexander officiates the opening of the roving memorial “Reflecting on Covid” on Friday September 29, 2023, in the province of Brabant, one face will stand out on stage: that of St. Maarten singer Kenyo Baly. The charismatic 27-year-old performer with the velvet baritone will be singing the song “Hometown Glory by Adele.”

November 13, 2025

OXFAM: EU in danger of violating aid rules by using aid to halt African migration

The EU is in danger of violating global and EU aid rules by using aid to halt migration. This is according to Oxfam’s new report, From Development to Deterrence, which sheds light on how the EU employs its aid budget to outsource migration control to countries in Africa. The report reveals that 6 out of the 16 identified migration activities in Niger, Libya and Tunisia potentially breach aid rules. These 6 activities total €667 million, with the total funds analysed amounting to approximately €1 billion.

November 13, 2025

President Akufo-Addo – “Reparations must be paid for Slave Trade”

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President of the Republic of Ghana, has demanded for the payment of reparations for the countries affected by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. According to President Akufo-Addo, “No amount of money will ever make up for the horrors, but it would make the point that evil was perpetrated, that millions of productive […]

November 13, 2025

St. Lucia receives historic US$6 million loan from Afreximbank Caribbean office

CAIRO, Egypt –The Caribbean island of St. Lucia has become the first nation in the Caribbean region to receive a loan from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) through the bank’s recently-established Caribbean Office in Bridgetown, Barbados.  Afreximbank announced this week that it has successfully executed its first facility disbursement of US $6 million Sovereign Term Loan Facility […]

November 13, 2025

Pan is joyful, wonderful music

Stick around pan long enough – in all its manifestations as a musical instrument and agent of social mobilisation and change – and you eventually realise that any “beating” experienced will come from its own hands. By Wesley Gibbings from the height of Trinidad & Tobago Carnival Read on here