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Overview: Haitian American midwife and filmmaker Stéphanie Etienne discusses her debut documentary “Listen to Me,” the urgency of Black maternal health, and the importance of platforms like AfroPoP amid funding challenges. Haitian American midwife and filmmaker Stéphanie Etienne’s first documentary “Listen to Me,” which examines the Black maternal health crisis in the United States premieres June 15 as part of the 18th season of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange. The series faced uncertainty after federal funding cuts but will return this year. For Etienne, whose parents immigrated from Haiti in the 1970s, storytelling is inseparable from community, care and activism, values rooted in her upbringing in a tight-knit Haitian community in Queens, New York. “I was there with tens of thousands of other people fighting for the rights of Haitian people,” Etienne said, recalling a memory of protests against the 1990 FDA recommendation that effectively barred Haitian immigrants from donating...

Conscientes de que el trabajo es la dedicación más honrosa y digna del hombre, el colectivo de la Unidad Básica de Producción Cooperativa (UBPC ) Felipe Herrera, en Alquízar, logró sostener en 2025 resultados de trabajo alentadores que lo hizo merecer, por vigésima novena ocasión, la condición de Vanguardia Nacional. Ana Belkis Rodríguez Contrera, Secretaria del Buró Extraterritorial de la Empresa Agropecuaria Empresa de Acopio y Beneficios del Tabaco Lázaro Peña, colocó el estandarte conmemorativo en manos del Héroe del Trabajo de la República de Cuba y Presidente de la Cooperativa, Armando Trujillo González. Acompañaron al líder de los tabacaleros alquizareños, Odalis Muñoz Martín, secretaria sindical, y Ramiro Ramírez Ramos, miembro de la junta directiva, quien amplió ante los presentes sobre el sobrecumplimiento de los planes productivos y económicos de la cooperativa, enfocados en la siembra del tabaco tapado para obtener la capa de exportación. El miembro del Buró Provincial...

The Minister with responsibility for culture Shane Archer has officially announced the return of Cohobblopot as part of the Crop Over Festival 2026 programme.  The highly anticipated event will take place on August 4, marking a major highlight for this year’s celebrations.  The announcement was made during the media launch of the 2026 festival, signalling a renewed commitment to showcasing Barbados’ rich cultural heritage. Independent Senator Jamal Slocombe has welcomed the decision, noting that he had been advocating for the event’s return for several years. He said the move reflects the importance of preserving key cultural elements even as traditions evolve, describing the reinstatement of Cohobblopot as a positive step for maintaining national identity. (TRY)

36 Prime Minister Mia Mottley joined fellow leaders in Barcelona for the IV Meeting in Defence of Democracy, which concluded with a declaration reaffirming commitment to democracy, human rights and the rules-based international order. The declaration also called for a targeted and implementation-focused agenda on multilateral reform, information integrity, democratic digital governance and inclusive development. Against a backdrop of deepening conflict, inequality, polarisation and disinformation, Prime Minister Mottley used the platform to place Barbados firmly among those countries insisting that democracy must be defended not only in word but also in deeds. Her intervention centred on three interconnected concerns: the need for the maintenance of a rules-based international order, the dangers of extremism fuelled by inequality, discrimination and hatred, and the urgent necessity of protecting the virtue of truth itself in an age of disinformation. “For small states like Barbados, a rules-based order is essential to our ability to exist...