A new framework for dialogue among CARIFORUM, FCORS and OCTs is closer to being completed following a consultation that was held in Barbados over the past few days.
BASSE-TERRE, Guadeloupe, CMC – Police in this French-speaking Caribbean island are investigating a case in which a prominent rifle club champion went on a shooting spree over the weekend, killing six people including his wife and two children.
Police said the incident occurred in the village of Tabanon in Petit Bourg on Saturday night.
Media reports said that the man, whose name was not yet been released, killed his two children aged six and 11 as well as his wife and three of her relatives.
BASSE-TERRE, Guadeloupe, CMC – Writers from the English, French and Dutch speaking Caribbean meet here next week for the third International Congress of Caribbean Writers. The organisers said that the April 10-13 event will be held under the theme "Our Fight for Freedom, A Collective Epic". The main objectives of the four-day event s to increase the awareness and afford opportunities for the distribution of Caribbean literature globally.