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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.Protests that have nearly shut down the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and... more
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POINTE-À-PITRE, Guadeloupe: As President Nicolas Sarkozy prepared Tuesday to meet with labor unions and employer representatives to try to head off mounting unrest over France's declining economy, a month-long general strike on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe escalated into widespread rioting, raising fears that political violence would spread to other French territories.POINTE-À-PITRE, Guadeloupe: As President Nicolas Sarkozy prepared Tuesday to... more
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Guadeloupe has been a French possession since 1635.
Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at 16°15'N, 61°35'W, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres (629 sq. mi). It is an overseas department of France.
As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe is also one of the 26 regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic.
As part of France, Guadeloupe is part of the European Union; hence its currency is the euro.
Guadeloupe is however not party to the Schengen Agreement. Guadeloupe has been a French possession since 1635.
Guadeloupe is an archipelago... more
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The 7.3 magnitude earthquake which rocked much of the Caribbean yesterday afternoon is said to be the largest recorded in the region in historic times.
According to the UWI Seismic Research unit, "The event was reported as widely felt throughout most of the Caribbean from Jamaica to Guyana."
Some islanders reported feeling tremors lasting up to a minute.
According to the BBC Caribbean website, "French police said it caused buildings to collapse in Martinique and Guadeloupe."
In Barbados, the phone system was briefly affected, while in St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Dominica there was said to be minor structural damage and/or broken furniture.
Damage assessment is still being carried out on other islands.
Initial reports indicate there were no casualties as a result of the quake.
However officials have said that a British citizen died of a heart attack in Martinique during the quake.
"There are no threats of a tsunami from this event."
CNN has reported that "shaking from the quake was picked up by a seismograph in California, which registered a magnitude 6.0 quake near Chico, California. But seismologists found no quake had occurred in California -- the instrument was reacting to reverberations from the Martinique quake."The 7.3 magnitude earthquake which rocked much of the Caribbean yesterday afternoon is... more
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