Transat Café L’or – Saturday start for the Ocean Fifty

The Ocean Fifty class and all its skippers have requested to advance their start to the race initially scheduled for Sunday, October 26th. They cited the expected weather conditions overnight from Sunday to Monday, which could be damaging for...

Anticipation builds for the 5th edition of Gastronomy Festival

The Saint Martin Tourism Office team poses at the entrance to Baratié Restaurant. (Robert Luckock photo) MARIGOT--The Saint Martin Tourism Office invited the press to a dinner at the intimate Baratié Restaurant in Concordia on Saturday as part of...

Franco-Azerbaijani Relations: New Caledonia, “Baku Initiative Group,” and Energy Diplomacy

Azerbaijan: Fuels and Dictatorship Against the backdrop of allegations made in the ARTE documentary “Azerbaijan: Fossil Fuels and Dictatorship” about Baku’s interference in France’s internal affairs, relations between the two countries have grown...

Carnival returning to year-round Mobile cruising

Carnival Cruise Line's next wave of 2027/28 deployments includes the return of year-round sailings from Mobile, expanding capacity there with a Conquest-class ship for the first time. Beginning May 15, 2027, Carnival Valor will offer varied six-...

Police Report - 10/25/25

One Note: Arrest and incident information, collected from various agencies, are public records available for review at the respective local law enforcement and public safety agencies. Not every arrest leads to a conviction. Guilt or innocence is...

Surinamese banana exports back in focus for Europe

"We are a 'price maker' in the region and we would like to keep it that way," says Nitesh Ramlakhan, Director of Production Operations at Food and Agriculture Industries (FAI). As Suriname's only banana plantation, the company occupies a unique...

Colombia Prepares for International Dance Biennial in Cali

Colombia prepares for the Seventh International Dance Biennial, an event featuring the participation of seven countries set in Cali. Credit: Maira Lins, CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons Cali, Colombia, will once again become the world capital of...

Transat Café L'or Class 40 Preview

by Transat Café L'OR 22 Oct 10:36 PDT 23 October 2025 Once again the Class40s will have the most boats on starting line of the TRANSAT CAFÉ L'OR Le Havre Normandie next Sunday, with 42 duos competing. Two years ago their epic start was one of the...

America’s Millionaires and Billionaires vs. Other Top Countries

Mapped: Financing Risk by Country in 2025 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways Most countries (90)...

Dominica welcomes back stars

Dominica’s World Creole Music Festival celebrates 25 years of music, culture, and magic next week. The World Creole Music Festival, first held in 1997, has grown into one of the Caribbean’s leading cultural events. It celebrates Creole music in...

North Sails Named Official Apparel Supplier

by North Sails 23 Oct 06:30 PDT North Sails Apparel, the clothing line created by the world's leading sailmaker, has partnered with Team Francesca Clapcich Powered by 11th Hour Racing. A highly versatile professional sailor, double Olympian and...

Brant resident’s anthology explores what it means to be queer in rural Canada

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News A new collection of non-fiction stories and poems explores queer experiences of coming of age, isolation, love, resilience and community in rural areas across Canada. Brant County resident Mabe Kyle poses...

Salamander Washington DC welcomes new managing director

Salamander Collection has appointed Bertrand Mangeot as the new managing director of Salamander Washington DC, the 373-room hotel on the southwest waterfront of the nation’s capital. Mangeot brings more than two decades of hospitality experience...

Carnival Announces Year-Round Deployment in Mobile, Alabama

Carnival Cruise Line has announced its next wave of 2027-28 deployments, including the return of year-round deployment in Mobile, Alabama, expanding its capacity in the region with a Conquest-class ship sailing from the home port for the first...

BEAUTY QUEEN BIMBO: Pageant queen’s awkward onstage blunder at Miss Grand International goes viral

The blunder happened at the Miss Grand International 2025 | Grand Final A beauty queen found herself suffering an awkward blunder when one of her competitors accidentally stole her spotlight. A clip of the horrendous mishap has now gone viral as...

Antigua Coast Guard Working With Regional Partners to Find Missing Captain

The Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force (ABDF) Coast Guard is actively responding to reports of a captain who fell overboard from a vessel en route to Dominica late Tuesday night. Information reaching the Coast Guard indicates that at approximately...

Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi) and his many lives

Lafcadio Hearn (Yakumo Koizumi) and his wife Setsu (Photo courtesy of Metropolis Magazine) From late September 2025, NHK’s Asadora,Japan’s most-watched morning drama series and a national cultural staple, debuted “The Ghost Writer’s Wife”, telling...

FRS L’Express Des Iles increases sailings for the 25th Edition of WCMF

Dominica News Online - Friday, October 10th, 2025 at 2:24 PM Desma PatrickIn anticipation of the quarter-century milestone of the World Creole Music Festival, Marketing Officer of H.H.V Whitchurch FRS L’Express Des Iles Desma Patrick said the...

Nduduzo Makhathini Is Turning Jazz Into a Spiritual Language

Nduduzo Makhathini doesn’t just play music — he summons memory. Each note feels like an offering, a conversation with those who came before him. He is a pianist and composer, a healer, a vessel trained to listen to the whispers of ancestors and...

NBA Rosters Feature Record 135 International Players from Record-Tying 43 Countries across Six Continents

The National Basketball Association (NBA) (www.NBA.com) today announced that a record 135 international players from a record-tying 43 countries across six continents are on opening-night rosters for the 2025-26 season. Among the record 135...