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This is the moment a fugitive Venezuelan drug trafficker known as Taliban is dumped alive in the ocean with his hands zip-tied and an anchor around his waist in revenge for stealing 200 kilograms of cocaine - and cash - from the Cartel. Reinaldo Fuentes is seen bound and gagged with blood stains on the back of his head before his killers struggle to heave him - and the anchor - over the side of a boat into the Caribbean Sea near Martinique. The footage, shared to social media, shows Fuentes staring at the person recording the video. He is...

A tumultuous week in France, COVID and more on the plate. The rising number of positive tests bringing in new measures this week. Masks ordered indoors and outdoors. Third-dose "booster shots" also rolled out for all adults in France. On Wednesday, the migrant issue came to the forefront as a migrant boat sank off the French coast in the English Channel with 27 deaths. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron that France should take back migrants if the UK catches them. France then shut the British out of meetings to discuss the...

The first day of the mobilization of Martinican unions, Monday November 22, 2021, began with a rally at the House of unions and a parade in Fort-de-France. Several blockages are visible in the economic activity zones of the island. 1300 people (according to the police) marched in the main arteries of Fort-de-France this Monday morning (November 22,2021) The demonstrators chanted which dates from the social events of 2009, "Matinik leve! Se pou la viktwa ka ale". The procession made a symbolic stop in front of the village of the arrival of the Transat Jacques Vabre for speeches and en emphasis...

Residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been told to remain alert after a Caribbean volcano came back to life. La Soufrière is the highest point in St. Vincent and is located near the northern tip of the country but remained dormant for decades before beginning to spew ash on Tuesday this week, AP reported. Steam, gas, and a volcanic dome formed by lava that reached the earth's surface could also be seen above the volcano, according to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA). The country's government, which consists of a chain of islands home to more than...

Thanks to Clive Cussler's book Piranha, a long forgotten chapter of human history has been found again. The story starts off in 1902 in Martinique in the town of St Pierre where the deadliest eruption in history took place.  The eruption of Mt Pelee was the worst volcanic eruption in history that resulted in tremendous casualties. The eruption killed far more people than did Vesuvius in the first century AD when it erupted burying the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii.  St Pierre in Martinique was a town of 30,000, considered the Paris of the Caribbean. It was also a...

POINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe – Protests that have nearly shut down the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique are not just about demands for lower prices and higher wages: For demonstrators they are no less than a battle against the vestiges of slavery. Afro-Caribbean islanders — most of whose forbears toiled in the sugarcane fields under the yoke of slavery more than 160 years ago — not only resent France's handling of the global economic crisis, they have long resented that slaveholders' descendants control the economy on both islands. They also suspect that businesses earn too high a profit on goods,...

Britons flee French island of Guadeloupe as rioters turn on white families ...Trouble broke out on the island earlier last month after protesters began rioting over high prices and low wages. ...the situation escalated this week after protesters began turning on...white families.... Guadeloupe descends into full-scale urban warfare... ... protesters turn... attention to...white families...they blame for...poor standard of living ...France describing the situation as virtual civil war'... ...hundreds of protesters are roaming the streets of the capital Point-a-Pitre, looting shops and restaurants, burning cars and vandalising.... Protesters ransacked shops and torched cars... .... the neighbouring...island of Martinique...where protests are also...

FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique -- Strikes that have nearly frozen everyday life on France's Caribbean islands burst into clashes on Monday as police battled protesters angry at high prices and resentful of a tiny white elite on lands better known for beach-side vacations. Police detained about 50 people after coming under a barrage of stones as they tried to take down barricades on the island of Guadeloupe, said Nicolas Desforges, the island's top government official. Strikers were sprayed with tear gas and several, including union leader Alex Lollia, were injured, France's leftist NPA party said in a statement. The leader of the...

Earthquake Details Magnitude 7.3 Date-Time Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 19:00:19 UTC Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 03:00:19 PM at epicenter Location 14.921°N, 61.264°W Depth 145.4 km (90.4 miles) Region MARTINIQUE REGION, WINDWARD ISLANDS Distances 21 km (13 miles) NW (322°) from Le Morne-Rouge, Saint-Pierre, Martinique 22 km (14 miles) NNW (336°) from Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pierre, Martinique 23 km (14 miles) WNW (296°) from Le Lorrain, La Trinité, Martinique 41 km (25 miles) NNW (331°) from FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique 269 km (167 miles) NW (319°) from BRIDGETOWN, Barbados Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.7 km (3.5 miles); depth +/- 6.9 km (4.3 miles)...