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Global first: Grenada's underwater sculpture park gets a lot bigger

Created by British sculptor and ecologist Jason deCaires Taylor in 2006, the Molinere Bay Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada is now one of the Caribbean country’s most popular underwater attractions. Grenada's captivating installation rece ...

"Joe Biden is finished" as massacre in Gaza continues

It will be remembered, I hope, as the hug that sank a craven president. It was mid-October. US President Joe Biden made the requisite pilgrimage to Tel Aviv to show that his staunch support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not simply ...

"support Black women at risk of deathly abuse"

Black women who are at risk of domestic murder face additional barriers in accessing support that could mean the difference between life and death, according to a new report.  Research by the Centre for Women’s Justice and Imkaan, titled Lif ...

Britain's shame: Refugee homelessness to spiral at Christmas

UK council leaders warned yesterday that a “perfect storm” could see thousands of refugees sleeping on the streets this Christmas. Town halls across England and Wales are facing high demand for temporary accommodation as the government works to clear ...

UK households face worse winter amid cost-of-living crisis

Britain’s energy regulator has increased the maximum price suppliers can charge for a typical household’s annual gas and electricity use.  The move is expected to fuel the cost-of-living crisis across the country. Ofgem said in ...

History-making music diva comes to town

A queen of a popular form of Haitian music never before showcased in Britain is coming to London for a special gig this Saturday. Phyllisia Ross, an internationally acclaimed konpa singer, will perform at the Forge venue in Camden Town for a historic ...

Windrush ship at 75: liberation not a celebration

My late Jamaican ex-Second World War veteran father Simeon George Rowe returned to Britain on the iconic former troop ship Empire Windrush that docked at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 after a 5,000-mile voyage. Passenger number 830, he went to Birmingham ...

RAF’s big farewell for Black war hero

Marc Wadsworth Military chiefs, Black Second World and other veterans, celebrities, friends and neighbours were among hundreds of mourners who joined a final farewell to one of the last “pilots of the Caribbean” at a moving Royal Airforce church ceremon ...

Why history maker Diane Abbott's career may be over

Back in the heady days of the famed Labour Party Black Sections rebellion in the 1980s, Diane Abbott was one of their most outspoken leaders. They were African Asian and Caribbean activists who caused big trouble for the Neil Kinnock Labour leadership w ...

Zoom event to mark anniversary of Black teenager Stephen Lawrence’s murder

Marc Wadsworth Thirty years ago, today, Black teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered by racist thugs in South East London, in Britain. It became an international cause célèbre after, as founder of the Anti-Racist Alliance, I was able to introduce N ...

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