Common heritage and language, rather than geographical boundaries, unite the Garifuna people of Central America. They are the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery in the seventeenth century and intermarried with Caribs living in the eastern...

GARIFUNA RELIGION. The Garifuna are an ethnic group numbering roughly 300,000 with communities in some 40 villages dotting the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize. Their traditional ancestor-focused religion presents a...

Garífuna refers to both the people and language of the Garínagu. In their own language, Garífuna is the singular and Garinagu is the plural form. The Garífuna live along the Caribbean Coast in Belize, Guatemala (Livingston), Nicaragua and Honduras...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The news of the demise of Andy Palacio, a singer/songwriter from Belize, on January 19, 2008, sent shock waves around the world. At the age of 47, it was an unexpected tragedy for an artist, who had received accolades in...

The Garinagu, commonly known as the Garifuna, are a people of West African and Amerindian descent who live along the Caribbean coast of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua and who share a common language, system of customs and beliefs, series of ancestor veneration...

Albert BowkerBERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Albert Bowker, a former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and the City University of New York, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer, the colleges announced. He was 88.Bowker was living at a retirement community near Stanford University when he...