Guadeloupe

(Newser) - A 68-year-old woman from Guadeloupe has been identified as the sole person on Earth known to have a newly discovered blood type—one so rare that she is only compatible with herself. Scientists will next search to see if anyone else is part of the "Gwada negative" blood...

(Newser) - Schools closed across the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe on Monday, and France's president warned of a "very explosive" situation in the island territory, after protests against COVID-19 rules and vaccinations descended into days of rioting and looting. France's central government sent in police special forces to...

(Newser) - With bad news still pouring in from earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Tyler Cowen pulls together some hypotheses on why the nation is so poor (noting that he doesn’t endorse all):

• Haiti gained independence from France too soon, in the early 1800s. Caribbean neighbors Guadeloupe and Martinique waited, and get a good

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