Browsing: Pawol’s initial… (!?)

My dear Raphaël Confiant, I just read on your fondaskreyol website today: «Crédit Martiniquais: a planned demise…”

I'm using 40 as my baseline figure. Let's go with 40 decision-makers at LA CTM and 40 decision-makers at L’ESPACE NORD…

The image (which impressed so many people, including Mr. Trump) of the Chinese military parade in Beijing is still…

With his characteristic depth and insight, Henri Pied offers us, in this column titled «An ti Pawol…”

August 26, 2025 «We» often tend to tell our story in a very peculiar way… Why? It…

Well, yes, that's what one of my closest friends told me… This man (an engineer) said…

As «Monsieur» Guy Cabort-Masson (1) had written (in a famous reply to a respectable woman from Foy—who, however, remained silent…

During this Carnival season, it might be worth revisiting what Mr. Armand Nicolas wrote about it in Volume 1…

Following Maurice Laouchez’s commentary, «What Path Ahead for the Overseas Territories?», on the recent accession…

Well, that's it. The new president has arrived. You, the Haitian people, were called upon and sent back to «your" country…

That's right! Even a VERY big country… At least, that's what I gather when I listen, when I hear…

In the first 15 days of 2025, at least THREE people have been killed in this country, just like that… Just…

That day, I felt ashamed for «US»… Sunday, January 5, 25, after the holidays, around 4 p.m., and there wasn’t much traffic,…

Hey! These past few days, «Martinique 1ère» has been celebrating its 60th anniversary… 2024–1960 = 1964. Hey, 1964…

These days, I keep hearing people talk about «our» Caribbean everywhere… We’re «Caribbean» or «Afro-Caribbean”…

But where is «our» Caribbean—and «ourselves» in all these «events»? It is high time that the…

1 – According to INSEE, the cost of living in Martinique is 38% higher than in mainland France. Let’s keep this figure in mind,…

That day, one afternoon, on my way home, the car radio was tuned to—I think—France-Inter (yep, really…)…

Friday, September 27, on GDC’s show «A contretemps» on ZOUK-TV… The well-known and beloved Christian Boutant (former…

What a shame for the Sainte-Thérèse neighborhood—the neighborhood where I was born… So on Sunday the 22nd, I tried to get to Fort…

>> Dec. 21, 2019 >> During a speech in Abidjan alongside the country’s president, Mr. Alassane Ouattara, Mr. Emmanuel…

Well, yes… A group of fellow citizens from Mq and Gp living in France has signed a petition calling for…

We read this… (excerpt from *Le Monde*, Nov. 19, 2023) «Israel-Hamas War: Following Greta Thunberg’s Statements, the…”

All of them, as far as we can tell, day or night, are «Caribbean»… All of them… But what do we know about our «neighbors»—or, for some, our «brothers»…

In the various debates that engage our elected officials, our local assemblies, and our «debaters» of all kinds, people talk about…

ATTOSECOND… That’s a strange question for an island that can’t even mark its roads properly… Yet it’s this unit…

Like everyone else, I enjoyed the feature on «Mount Pelée» and the Northern Mornes… That said…