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Tuned in to Irish roots: Montserrat singers celebrate
THE FIELDS of Athenry sounded in Dublin City Hall yesterday when a Caribbean folk group paid tribute to their Irish heritage, Niamh Griffin reports for The Irish Times. Wearing national dress of...
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Renewed Calls for Decolonization at the UN
The Turks and Caicos Sun reports that the Foreign Minister of Malawi recently stressed that the United Nations must renew its commitment to ensure that the world’s 16 remaining non-self-governing...
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3rd Montserrat Volcano Half Marathon
The registration for the 3rd Montserrat Volcano Half Marathon is (really) nearly closed. The event will take place on November 26, 2011, and runners from all around the globe will be taking part in...
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Montserrat moves into digital age with new app
The Caribbean island of Montserrat has been further exposed to the world of technology and now boasts its own application on the Apple App Store as GoMNI. Developed by Lavabits in collaboration with...
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Montserrat prepares for St. Patrick’s Day Activities
St. Patrick’s Week of Activities March 10th – 19th, 2012, as reported by travelvideo.tv. Known as ‘The Emerald Isle’, Montserrat is the only country outside Ireland where St Patrick’s Day is a public...
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Can ‘mountain chicken’ frogs escape extinction in Caribbean?
Scientists are hoping that one of the world’s largest frogs is singing songs of love on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat and not just singing in the rain, The Associated Press reports. Mating...
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(Last Call) for Papers: Caribbean Irish Connections
Organizers Alison Donnell (University of Reading, UK), Maria McGarrity (LIU Brooklyn, USA), and Evelyn O’Callaghan (University of the West Indies, Barbados) remind us that the call for papers for...
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Frogs Rescued from Killer Fungus in Montserrat Reproduce in the UK
BBC Nature reports that rare tropical frogs— mountain chicken frogs—rescued from a killer fungus in the Caribbean have produced a bumper brood in the UK. The two female mountain chicken frogs...
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Trinidad and Tobago’s Justice Minister “Fired Kamla Style”
Trinidad and Tobago’s justice minister, Herbert Volney (originally from Montserrat), was recently fired for deceiving the cabinet over a controversial law that would allow corruption charges to be...
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Montserrat: A Modern Pompeii
Kuriositas recently featured Montserrat, calling it a “modern Pompeii.” The post gives a detailed account, and provides eerie photos of the devastation caused by the 1995 eruption of the Soufrière...
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St. Patrick’s Day reaches around the world
Irish and the Irish-at-heart from Japan to Montserrat will raise a pint this weekend, as the CBC reports. One of the few things Newfoundland and Labrador has in common with the Caribbean island of...
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Volcano survivor who lives in Leytonstone to help rebuild homeland island
A man from Leytonstone who fled the Caribbean island of Montserrat when it was hit by devastating volcanic eruptions in the 1990s is preparing to return to help rebuild his homeland, as Daniel Binns...
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A Network to Track Caribbean Natural Hazards
Alexandra Witze (Nature) writes on new installations by the US geophysicists for the Continuously Operating Caribbean GPS Observational Network (COCONet) in areas “where few of their compatriots have...
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Abandoned by most, Montserrat holds a strong appeal in its eruption-scoured...
This travel article by Eric Vohr for The Chicago Tribune offers interesting insights about the island of Montserrat. This tiny Caribbean island made headlines twice in its history. Once in 1979, when...
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The Caribbean Island That’s Half Paradise, Half Mud-Drowned Wasteland
From Atlas Obscura. Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like them on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow them on Twitter @atlasobscura. On February 11, 2010, vacationers flying from Toronto to St....
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Exploration Vessel Nautilus Studies the Caribbean Sea
Taí Fernández brings to our attention the fascinating images, conversation, and wealth of information available on-line as the EV Nautilus conducts an expedition in Caribbean waters, providing live...
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Caribbean Case Study Reveals How to Manage Volcano Risk
In “Caribbean case study reveals how to manage volcano risk,” María Elena Hurtado summarizes a new studies by University of Cambridge geographers Amy Donovan and Clive Oppenheimer, in which they...
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Artist Jason “Gazoo” Allen spreads the Montserrat vibe
A post by Peter Jordens. Jesse Serwer of Large Up interviews Montserrat-born, New York City-based artist Jason “Gazoo” Allen. Also known as “The Black Sand Artist,” Gazoo’s work can be seen in music...
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Scrappy Retains Montserrat Groovy Monarch Title
UK based soca artist Scrappy (Garvin Johnson) captured the 2013/2014 Groovy Soca Monarch crown at the finals of the ‘Punch & Get Out’ Groovy Soca Monarch competition with his song “Guilty” (from...
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Montserrat: a modern-day Pompeii in the Caribbean
For first-time visitors to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, some of the local vocabulary evokes Geology 101. Words like “pyroclastic flow,” “seismic” and “dome collapse” pop up often in...
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