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Montserrat Arts Council Launches Cultural Development Project
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August 29, 2025
The Montserrat Arts Council (MAC) has launched the Cultural Development Project, a year-long initiative designed to preserve and promote the island’s heritage through structured education, creative training, and community engagement. According to...
Promoters Invited to Submit Events for Montserrat Carnival 63’
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August 29, 2025
The Montserrat Arts Council (MAC) has released the draft calendar for Montserrat Carnival 63’, scheduled to run from December 20, 2025, to January 1, 2026. Pre-carnival activities begin on December 6, and private promoters are being invited to...
Montserrat Joins ECCU in Launch of First Step Savings Account to Boost Financial Inclusion
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August 28, 2025
Bank of Montserrat Limited has officially rolled out the First Step Savings Account, making Montserrat the latest territory in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) to launch the initiative aimed at increasing financial inclusion. The...
Montserrat and St. Maarten Strengthen Tourism Ties Through Cross-Promotion
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August 27, 2025
The Montserrat Tourism Authority (MTA) and the St. Maarten Tourism Bureau (STB) have formed a strategic partnership to boost visitor arrivals through cross-promotion, following the relaunch of WINAIR’s direct flight connections in May 2025. The...
Montserrat to Benefit from OECS Tissue Culture and Greenhouse Facility
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August 27, 2025
The Ministry of Agriculture, Land, Housing, Environment and Youth and Sports (MALHEYS) is set to benefit from a new Tissue Culture and Greenhouse facility, supported under the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States’ (OECS) Integrated Landscape...
Montserrat Secondary School Releases Preliminary 2025 CSEC Results
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August 27, 2025
The Montserrat Secondary School has received the preliminary results for students who wrote the CSEC Examinations in May/June 2025. Fifty- seven (57) students entered to write CXC exams this year. The students wrote a total of 406 subject entries...
Montserrat to Compete in 5th ECCB International Netball Series in Grenada
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August 18, 2025
Montserrat is preparing to participate in the fith annual netball series slated for Grenada this weekend. The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), in collaboration with the Caribbean Netball Association and Netball Grenada will host the...
No CARIFESTA for Montserrat this Year
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August 20, 2025
Montserrat will not be represented at the much-anticipated CARIFEST XV, which begins in Barbados on Saturday. This will be the first staging of the Caribbean Festival of Arts since the 2019 edition in Trinidad and Tobago, as subsequent events were...
Montserrat Volcanic Crisis Archive Goes Live
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August 10, 2025
A new digital resource preserving the story of the Soufrière Hills volcano eruption and its lasting impact on Montserrat is live. Launched at the end of June, according to an article from 3S Research, the archive marks a major milestone in...
Why Rock is the music they can't kill
Daily Express
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August 15, 2025
Van Halen. Balance. In 1962, Decca Records famously rejected The Beatles, stating, “Guitar music is on the way out”. In 1977 NME declared that punk was dead, after writing off hard rock and heavy metal bands as dinosaurs. Now, decades later, we’re...
A Labor of Love
Santa Fe New Mexican
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Terry Garcia and Joe Sweeney are in a room roughly the size of a kitchen near the sacristy, the room where vestments and religious objects are stored, and to the left of the altar inside the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. It’s a...
Sylk Represents Montserrat at Leeward Islands Calypso Monarch Tonight
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August 9, 2025
All eyes will be on Montserrat’s Garnet “Sylk” Thompson this evening as he takes the stage at the prestigious Leeward Islands Calypso Monarch Competition, representing the Emerald Isle against some of the region’s best. Thompson, a seasoned...
Gulf Coast Traffic Alerts: August 29
Gulf Coast News - Florida
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August 29, 2025
Life on the Gulf Coast moves fast, but the Gulf Coast news app moves even faster. Whether it's breaking in Naples. Here's what investigators are telling us right now. Coming down in Cape Coral. Some of these heavier rain bands could produce...
Creative Entrepreneurs in Montserrat Eligible for CARIFESTA XV Mobility Grants
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August 5, 2025
Montserrat’s artists and cultural entrepreneurs now have the opportunity to receive financial support to attend CARIFESTA XV, thanks to a new grant programme launched by the Caribbean Development Bank’s Cultural & Creative Industries Innovation...
SVG defeats St Lucia in their march towards retaining netball title
St. Vincent Times
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August 29, 2025
Vincy Jewels defeats Saint Lucia in battle of the saints in Grenada St. Vincent and the Grenadines continued their march towards retaining their ECCB International Netball Series title on Thursday evening August 28, 2025, defeating Saint Lucia 57...
Dr Yvonne Weekes Urges Montserrat’s Artists to Preserve Memory and Reimagine the Nation
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August 5, 2025
Montserrat must resist cultural erasure by actively preserving memory and engaging its artists and educators in the reimagining of the island’s identity. This was the central message delivered by writer and academic Dr Yvonne Weekes during the...
From Stories to Jobs: How Immersive Tourism Can Curb Youth Unemployment in Montserrat
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August 5, 2025
Montserrat is not just a place – it’s a feeling. It’s a gasp of delight that escapes the minute the island is revealed through the clouds. It’s the taste on your lips when you see a photo of goat water cooking on a coal pot. But for too long, our...
Leeward Islands Calypso Monarch 2025 – Montserrat Represented
SKN Pulse
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August 5, 2025
Montserrat’s reigning Calypso Monarch, Garnett “Sylk” Thompson, has officially departed the Emerald Isle to represent the island at the prestigious 2025 Leeward Islands Calypso Monarch Competition, set to take place on August 9th in Anguilla! Sylk...
Dominican candidates reflect 0.2 percent increase in pass rate for CSEC Examination in 2025
Dominica News Online
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August 28, 2025
Preliminary results for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations this year show a 0.2 percent increase in the overall percentage pass for Dominican students receiving grades 1, 2, and 3. Local Caribbean Examinations...
Why Montserrat Celebrates Emancipation Day on August Monday
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August 4, 2025
Montserrat joins several Caribbean territories in commemorating Emancipation Day, marking the abolition of slavery in the British colonies. On the island, this significant observance falls on the first Monday in August, known locally as August...