In Martinique, prices are constantly rising: the cost of living has increased by 2.6% in one year.
This increase is widely felt by consumers.
Everyone can now have the level of chlordecone in their blood determined in Guadeloupe, a test is reimbursed by social security.
This pesticide, which has polluted the soils of the Antilles, has contaminated 95% of Guadeloupeans, according to Public Health France.
In Guadeloupe, still, more than a hundred caregivers have not exercised for six months after being suspended for having refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Where are these health professionals today?
Bernard Pons, former Minister of Dom-Tom, died this week at the age of 95.
This close friend of Jacques Chirac was at the origin of the first overseas tax exemption law.
But his name also remains associated in New Caledonia with the drama of Ouvéa, which killed 21 people, including a majority of separatists, in 1988.
Heading for the Indian Ocean, where an idea was tested in Reunion
: anti-pollution nets are installed on rainwater outlets to capture waste before it reaches the sea.
Finally, head to Antarctica for the Crozet Islands, French lands classified as World Heritage by Unesco.
The archipelago has no permanent inhabitants, but scientists and soldiers are regularly assigned there.
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