Socialist presidential hopeful Francois Hollande and President Nicolas Sarkozy will both visit French overseas regions Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana in upcoming weeks, with Hollande kicking off the charm offensive first.
Pulitzer prize winning author Paul Harding is here in the studio to talk about his outstanding novel "Tinkers". Dances with birds: humans and birds share the stage in Luc Petton's enchanting and poetic show. Plus a tribute to Aimé Césaire, the poet from Martinique who inspired great artists.
Tuesday: Amobé Mévégué brings us the best of the international musical trends. We kick off today in Paris welcoming the Caribbean Vibrations festival starting on the 5th of November. And yesterday a solidarity concert was given to support two French journalists held hostages in Afghanistan for 301 days now.
Voting has begun in French Guiana and in the Caribbean island of Martinique in a referendum to determine whether the two French departments should have a greater say in how they run their own affairs.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has offered to hold a referendum on greater autonomy for the island of Martinique, one of France's Caribbean territories plagued by unrest earlier this year over commodity shortages and the rising cost of living.
After his visit in Martinique (photo), French president Nicolas Sarkozy will travel to Guadeloupe this Friday. The small French Caribbean island was paralysed for six weeks last winter during a general strike over the spiralling cost of living.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has embarked on a two-day tour of the French Caribbean, his first visit since strikes and riots paralysed the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique for weeks earlier this year.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is visiting the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, four months after violent protests over rising costs of living. Sarkozy will participate in ongoing negotiations to calm the social strife.
Strikers in the French Caribbean island of Martinique lifted their crippling 38-day anti-inflation protest on Saturday after signing a protocol with the government.
Violent scuffles broke out between demonstrators and police on Friday in Fort-de-France, on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, as a general strike there enters its fifth week.
