Growing up in Belize, James Lovell heard the Garifuna language from his parents and his grandparents; he understood it but he didn't speak it. He spoke the language of the streets, Belizean Creole. He ...

If you didn’t know, Livingston is where Garifuna culture still exists in Guatemala, in Central America. Garifuna settlements exist in Honduras, Belize and Nicaragua on the Caribbean coast. The little- ...

We the Garifuna people are among the 400 million people on this earth who speak one of the 6,000 indigenous languages that exist. Most of us are struggling to preserve our languages that we have been ...

Andy Palacio, a singer and guitarist whose critically acclaimed music championed the vanishing language and culture of the Garifuna people of his native Belize and made him a cultural icon in the ...

READING – In 2001, UNESCO proclaimed the language, dance and music of the Garifuna people of Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.” This ...

Musician Rhodel “Rhodee” Castillo smiles when he is asked how he explains who he is and where he’s from to his neighbors on the South Side. Although he looks like them, his native Garifuna language is ...

Andy Palacio, an iconic figure and major force behind the worldwide awareness of Garifuna arts and culture, spoke to the North Shore News a few months before he died unexpectedly of a stroke in ...

THERE’S a buoyant, lighthearted tropical quality to Andy Palacio’s music. Echoes of reggae, salsa, samba and calypso simmer beneath the surface of its infectious percussion. But the heart of the music ...

Three Garifuna girls pose for the camera as an unseen adult yells at them to get back inside. As his demands grow louder their smiles get wider. Black Carib skin offsets pearly white teeth and ...