Siman di Kultura 2026, Curaçao’s Culture Week, runs from September 27 to October 4, 2026, for its 22nd edition. The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture
In the 1950s, a Dutch Dominican priest arrived in Curaçao with a notebook and a tape recorder. Paul Brenneker did not come to convert people;
Bridgetown was built in successive layers around the same Amerindian bridge, which in turn became a slave port, a Sephardic synagogue, and a British garrison,
In April 2008, a handful of freedivers dove into a marine abyss south of Long Island in the Bahamas and broke three world records and
On September 24, Trinidad and Tobago celebrates its 50th anniversary as a republic. In 1976, fourteen years after gaining independence, the country replaced the British
On July 16, 1941, Peter Minshall was born in Georgetown, British Guyana, and grew up in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where he became
The history of Caribbean cinema continues its journey through the 1980s. After three episodes devoted to the early developments of several cinematic movements in the
In Princes Town, in southern Trinidad and Tobago, the “doubles” were born in 1936 from a simple gesture: a customer asking for a second piece
In May 1977, a Cuban dancer took the stage in New York with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. In the audience that evening, actor Harry
“Asere, ¿qué bolá?”, this Cuban street greeting, was already in common use in Havana’s working-class neighborhoods long before a U.S. president adopted it as well.
Founded on April 22, 1819, on the southern coast of Cuba, Cienfuegos was established as part of a Spanish project by settlers from France and
Gabriel Serville passed away on September 30, 2026, at the age of 67. As president of the Territorial Collectivity of French Guiana, a former mathematics
La Brea Pitch Lake is a natural asphalt lake located in La Brea, southwest of Trinidad (Trinidad and Tobago). It covers approximately 41 hectares and
Born in Grenada in 1935, he moved to Trinidad as a young child and died in New York on September 27, 2026. Mighty Sparrow leaves
We’ve reached the halfway point of the “Stories of Caribbean Cinema” series. The first four episodes have covered nearly three decades of cinema, from Cuba
Betico Croes, a schoolteacher who became a political leader, led Aruba toward “Status Aparte,” which took effect on January 1, 1986. This status separates the
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