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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Olivia Losbar |Emma Lewis |Janine Mendes-Franco |Pamela Ephraim
It's a farming model inherited from the colonial period and neglected for years, but is now enjoying a certain revival – the “Creole garden,” a traditional home garden that produces staple foods for families. Banana trees, tubers such as yams and manioc, fruit trees like avocado and mango, and medicinal and aromatic plants all cohabit in a harmonious ecosystem; any surpluses are shared with relatives and neighbours.
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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Oiwan Lam |Janine Mendes-Franco |Pamela Ephraim |Filip Noubel
This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. On March 19, 2025, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained along with around 105 other municipal officials and politicians on the alleged crimes of corruption and aiding a terrorist organisation, in what Human Rights Watch has called an attempt to suppress legitimate political engagement.
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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Emma Lewis |Janine Mendes-Franco |Mong Palatino |Mohamed Mohamud
Roots reggae artist Max Romeo, known for his uncompromising lyrics, died on the evening of April 11 at a private hospital in St. Andrew, Jamaica, due to complications from heart disease. He was 80 years old. His family shared on Instagram:Born Maxwell Livingston Smith (also known as “Maxie Smith”) on November 22, 1944, in Saint D’Acre, a small country town near Alexandria in the hills of St. Ann, Jamaica, Romeo left home at the age of 14.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Teodora C. Hasegan |Laura Chaparro |Gabriela García Calderón |Janine Mendes-Franco
Small in stature, with black and white fur, whiskers for days, and a touching gaze, Añemó, which in the Kamentsá language means “to be strong,” came into my life on August 7, 2021, during a pivotal year in my personal, intellectual, and academic history. I had begun my PhD in law just a few months before, with a scholarship from the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia, where I took on the challenge of communicating, through legal lenses, other ways of being in the world.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Emma Lewis |Kevin Rennie |GV South Asia
Trinidad and Tobago-born, UK-based poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo, who hails from the family that produced Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul, has been awarded the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for poetry, a prestigious literary accolade that recognises eight international writers — two from four different genres — each year.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Emma Lewis |Hasya Nindita |Zhaoyin Feng
Mark Loquan, a distinguished chemical engineer and celebrated composer who effortlessly moved between Trinidad and Tobago's corporate and creative worlds – and often made them seamlessly intertwine for the greater national good – passed away on April 6, at the age of 63, from brain cancer. His career in the local energy industry began in 1982, when he took up the position of process engineer at Trinidad Nitrogen Co. Ltd. Twenty years later, he became the first local president of Yara Trinidad Ltd.
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3 weeks ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Emma Lewis |Arzu Geybullayeva |Jean de Dieu SOVON
On April 12, 2018, courtroom POS 09 in the Hall of Justice in Port of Spain was jam-packed with interested parties eager to hear the outcome of a highly scrutinised court case – Jason Jones vs. the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago. Jones, a Trinidad-born gay rights advocate who lives in the United Kingdom, was challenging Sections 13 and 16 of the country's Sexual Offences Act (Chapter 11:28), which criminalise anal sex between consenting adults.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Arzu Geybullayeva |Saoussen Ben Cheikh |Oiwan Lam |Janine Mendes-Franco |Arzu Geybulla
Istanbul's popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was arrested on alleged corruption and terror links on March 19. In the four days since, citizens have taken to the streets and the main squares across several provinces to protest, defying the four-day protest and demonstration ban imposed by the authorities on March 19 in an attempt to quell any resistance. Despite heavy police presence and roadblocks in Turkey's large cities, thousands have joined the protests.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Balkan Diskurs |Oiwan Lam |Kanav Narayan Sahgal |Janine Mendes-Franco
This article by Amina Sejfić was originally published on Balkan Diskurs, a project of the Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC). An edited version has been republished by Global Voices under a content sharing agreement. The Svrzo House, located in the heart of Sarajevo’s old quarter, is one of the most beautiful vestiges of Ottoman architecture in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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1 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Flora Thomas |Candice Stewart |Mong Palatino
On March 12, the UK government instituted changes to its visitor visa requirements for nationals of Trinidad and Tobago. The Caribbean nation is a former British colony and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a political association primarily comprised of former territories of the British Empire.
