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The international days of Corte, in Corsica, opened on Saturday, August 8, bringing together for two days separatists from around the world: from Catalonia, Kabylie and Martinique. This 44th edition celebrates 50 years of the Corsican National Liberation Front. During a clandestine press conference on Wednesday, August 5, the FLNC reiterated its opposition to the autonomy project currently being examined in Parliament.

Successive waves of brown algae are inundating Caribbean beaches in Guadeloupe and Martinique, with the island of Désirade particularly hard-hit as accumulated seaweed suffocates the local population and renders beaches unrecognizable.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) – St Kitts Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew Thursday said he remains in good spirits and is continuing to “getting fully active, fully conscious and in stable condition” as members of his medical team in the United States (US) continue to evaluate him following a recent health scare. Drew, with tubes and plaster attached to his hands, in a five-minute broadcast did not disclose the nature of his illness, but said that he had been treated first in the French island of Martinique and is now in South Florida. Earlier media reports in Martinique had said that the prime minister had suffered a stroke, but that he is not expected to suffer lasting effects .

In Saint-Pierre, Martinique, the ruins of a city destroyed in 1902 meet Mount Pelée and the black-sand beaches of Martinique’s volcanic north. The old theater is still here, its stone steps climbing toward a stage that vanished more than a century ago. Nearby, the walls of the old prison remain beneath Mount Pelée, the volcano […] The post Saint-Pierre, Martinique Is the Caribbean Pompeii, With 1902 Ruins, a 4,583-Foot Volcano, and Black-Sand Beaches appeared first on Caribbean Journal .