Learning more about our history, heritage
By MAXINE J. TULLOCH Special to South Florida Times This year marks the eighth anniversary of June as National Caribbean American Heritage Month, when the United States pays …
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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 …
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 …