The Latest Breaking News from Martinique

She's a cinema pioneer with an incredible list of firsts: Euzhan Palcy was the first female director to win one of France's prestigious César awards, the first Black woman to have a film produced by a major Hollywood studio and the only woman to have directed Marlon Brando. Born on…

According to a report published by French feminist organisation En avant toute(s), life is particularly harrowing for survivors of sexual abuse and gender-based violence in French overseas territories like Martinique, Mayotte and Guadeloupe. The subject is taboo and victims are often so isolated that many don’t speak out.

Nearly 20 years after Caribbean islanders sued to hold the French government criminally responsible for the banana industry’s extended use of a banned pesticide in Martinique and Guadeloupe, a panel of judges has dismissed their case, ruling that it’s too hard to determine who’s to blame for acts committed so…

A nearly 20-year fight to hold the French government criminally responsible for using a banned pesticide in the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe has received a serious blow

In a highly sensitive case that relates to the poisoning of up to 90 percent of the population of Martinique and Guadeloupe by a pesticide used on banana plantations, French court judges have put an end to the affair, claiming legal challenges on the effects of the chlordecone chemical were…

A Dry White Season director takes lifetime achievement award, alongside Michael J Fox, Witness director Peter Weir, and songwriter Diane Warren

Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and leading pan-Africanist, would have been 97 on 20 July 2022.

Dominica, a member of the Commonwealth, is a small island in the lesser Antilles. Located between the French overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique, it's one of the poorest countries in the Caribbean. To finance its economy, Dominica offers a Citizenship by Investment programme, or CBI. Investors can buy a…

On May 22 each year, when the eastern Caribbean island of Martinique observes Emancipation Day, drums beat from sunrise until the break of dawn the next day.