Miss Haiti Universe, Sarodj Bertin will be going for the title in Las Vegas on Monday along with 82 other contestants from around the world. Sarodj is Haiti’s first representative in the contest since 1989 and like her country, has…
Politics
Wyclef for President?
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That was the big talk yesterday when news broke that mega music star Wyclef has filed the necessary paperwork to run in Haiti’s November 28 election. The New York Times reports: “You can either live trying to do something or…
Islandista becomes Baroness
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Congrats are in order for Trinidad-born islandista Floella Benjamin who took her seat in Britain’s House of Lords today as a peer for the Liberal Democrats. Her official title is Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham in Kent, but she will be known…
BREAKING NEWS: Kamla Persad-Bissessar first female PM of Trinidad & Tobago
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[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=Trinidad+elections&iid=8901433" src="3/6/d/5/Opposition_leader_PersadBissessar_7be6.jpg?adImageId=12976890&imageId=8901433" width="380" height="268" /] As Denyse Plummer said it then, it has become now – Woman is boss in Trinidad & Tobago. The news is just in that Kamla Persad-Bissessar will now be the first female…
Terror in Tivoli and women’s role
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And so islandistas, it has come to this. The ugly, jagged and dark side of the Caribbean’s ultimate Jekyll and Hyde island has been unveiling itself in all its horror over the last week as the forces of Dudus have been unleashed…
Island folk at White House Correspondents Dinner
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The biggest night on the Washington D.C. social calendar (outside of the inaugurations of course!) came off on Saturday – the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. US First Lady Michelle Obama looked gorrrrrgeous in a fire-red Prabal Gurung dress! [picapp…