But the French West Indies — Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guadeloupe’s six dependencies — seem as placid as the emerald waters that lap their pearl-white beaches. In the westernmost backwater ...

Amidst it all, the French West Indies—Martinique, Guadeloupe and their islet dependencies—glide ever closer to full membership in Charles de Gaulle’s French Community. Sipping white rum and ...

THERE are explosive possibilities in the French West Indies. For three years the predominantly Negro populations of Martinique and Guadeloupe have been stirring restlessly under the heavy hand of ...

On Monday, investigating judges dismissed a court challenge into the massive poisoning of the French West Indies with chlordecone, a pesticide authorised in banana plantations until 1993.