Celebrate the Village: Festival provides fun, raises funds for kids
By ASHLEY ANDREWS Special to South Florida Times FORT LAUDERDALE — The vivacious spirit of Caribbean culture will be brought to South Florida this month …
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Celebrating Caribbean Heritage Month in style
FORT LAUDERDALE — Greater Fort Lauderdale, which draws millions of international visitors each year, is celebrating Caribbean Heritage Month with several events throughout Broward County …
Son of the Caribbean gets lesson in America
Editor’s note: In honor of Caribbean-American Heritage Month, we present an original poem from one of South Florida’s premier writers and poets. By GEOFFREY PHILP …
The elephant in our room
For South Florida’s Caribbean community, there is a proverbial elephant in our room. Recent headlines have blared about the alleged criminal activities of one of …
Are these words without works
I’ve been one of the skeptics of the so-called “diaspora movement” for a long time. Until I was instructed by a very dear friend and …
Advancing Haiti “Pearl of the Antilles”
HOLLYWOOD FL — “Yo se pa anpil nan yon klas presegondè” translates as “There isn’t much of a middle class.” Language and wealth have long …
Colonial welfare and buying our freedom
On May 11th French President Francois Hollande made a statement that drew widespread international attention. Immediately afterwards came a resurgence of widespread frustration with European …
Build us, so we can build us
In our home islands, the greatest need is for the most powerful currency – education. The story of an uneducated woman with eleven children who …
The streets were gold
“When I came to America I thought, like every other West Indian, money was flowing, the streets were gold, but I was wrong.” Those are …
Before they ran the race
Around April 23rd, I embarked on my first visit to the Penn Relays. A mini version of the Olympics that focuses mainly on high school …