THERE are explosive possibilities in the French West Indies. For three years the predominantly Negro populations of Martinique and Guadeloupe have been stirring restlessly under the heavy hand of ...

The French West Indies were not al ways so serene. Discovered by Columbus in 1493, they proved a strategic gateway to the Caribbean, provoking a bloody succession of wars between the Spanish ...

Olivier Dehoorne, Dominique Augier, Toward a New Tourism Policy in the French West Indies - Vers une nouvelle politique touristique dans les Antilles françaises, Études caribéennes, No. 19 (Août 2011) ...

The French state continues to deny responsibility in the chlordecone scandal, after authorising the use of the pesticide for years in banana plantations in Martinique and Guadeloupe. RFI met with ...