Research Guides: Caribbean Studies: Newspapers

International News

International Newspapers and News Sources
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Finding Newspaper Articles

Alternative Press Index
Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals.
Caribbean Newspapers
Website on current newspapers in the Caribbean.
Cuban Heritage Collection Periodicals
The digital collection of CHC Periodicals focuses primarily on works published before 1923 that are most unique to its holdings. Newly digitized titles are continually added.
Ethnic NewsWatch
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
Factiva
Search for U.S. and international newspapers, news transcripts, trade journals and more for news and business information. **NYU NetID and Password required.
Inter Press Service News Agency: Latin American and Caribbean
LANIC Newspapers and News List
Latin American Newsstand
A selection of full-text Latin-American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin-American regional topics
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to full-text newspapers (U.S. and some international), news wires, transcripts, and trade journals.
NewsBank
Search Newsbank databases including the Archive of Americana, World News Archive, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Reports, Access World News and more.
Worldpress.org
News and views from around the world. Provides current articles on Caribbean territories.
NACLA Report on the Americas
Provides critical analysis of political, social and economic trends in Latin America and the Caribbean including analysis of U.S.-Latin America relations, human rights developments, and historical and cultural issues.

Historic Newspaper Collections

By Country

Abeng
(Kingston, Jamaica): Issues online range from February - September 1969
Aruba Esso News
(Lago-Colony, Aruba): Issues online range from 1943-1985
Diario de la Marina
(Havana, Cuba): Issues online range from 1899-1960
El Caribe Digital Archive
(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic): Founded in 1948, El Caribe is one of the Dominican Republic’s most influential and longest-running newspapers.
Justice
(Fort-de-France, Martinique): Issues online range from January-May 2010
Le Nouvelliste
(Port-au-Prince, Haiti): Issues online range from 1899-1979
Readex
Caribbean Newspapers, Latin American Newspapers Series 1 & 2
Tapia
(Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago): Issues online range from 1969-1976

Outside the Caribbean

RISM Newspapers on microfilm

Advocate (Bridgetown, Barbados), 63 reels, date range: 1961 – 1968
Advocate-News (Bridgetown, Barbados), 80 reels, date range: 1968-1983
Barbados Advocate (Bridgetown, Barbados :1983), 24 reels, date range:1983 – 1992
Les Antilles (Saint-Pierre, Martinique), 8 reels, date range: 1872 - 1901
L'Avenir, 2 reels, date range: 1907 - 1912
Barbadian, 12 reels, date range: 1822 - 1861
Caribbean contact, 1 reel, date range: 1988-90
Les Colonies, 9 reels, date range: 1881 - 1902
Courrier de la Guadeloupe, 8 reels, date range: 1881 – 1908
Daily Chronicle (Georgetown, Guyana) 60 reels, date range: 1957 - 1990
Daily News (Charlotte Amalie, V.I.), 5 reels, date range: 1950 – 1955
Daily News of the Virgin Islands, 7 reels, date range: 1955-61
La Democratie, 2 reels, date range: 1900 - 1906
Dominica Chronicle (Roseau, Dominica : 1821), 2 reels, date range: 1821-27
Dominica Chronicle, 48 reels, date range: 1909-1962
Dominica Colonist, 4 reels, date range: 1848 – 1866
Dominica Tribune, 14 reels, date range: 1924 - 1951
Dominican, 15 reels, date range: 1842 - 1907
L'Etincelle (Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe), 1 reel, date range: 1944 – 1962
Grand Bahamas Tribune, 5 reels, date range: 1969-1971
Independent Press (Castries, St. Lucia), 1 reel, date range: 1843 – 1844
L'Information, 13 reels, date range: 1941 - 1962
Jamaica Weekly Gleaner, 57 reels, date range: 1958 - 1991
Journal Commercial de la Guadeloupe, 1 reel, date range: 1841 - 1844
Le Nouvelliste (Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe), 30 reels, date range: 1909 - 1962
Nation (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago), 9 reels, date range:1962-70
New Nation (Georgetown, Guyana) 23 reels, date range: 1962 – 1987
La Paix (Fort-de-France, Martinique), 14 reels, date range: 1916 – 1961
Le Progres de la Guadeloupe, 3 reels, date range: 1880 – 1895
Le Progres Sociale, 1 reel, date range: 1957 – 1962
Le Propagateur, 6 reels, date range: 1855 – 1893
Recueil des Actes Administratifs, 23 reels, date range: 1947 - 1985
Thunder, 6 reels, date range: 1962 – 1968
Times (Bridgetown, Barbados), 8 reels, date range: 1871-1875
Tobago Gazette, 6 reels, date range: 1871 - 1898
Trinidad Guardian, 525 reels, date range: 1917 – 1995
Tribune (Nassau), 42 reels, 1988-1995
La Verite, 4 reels, date range: 1890 - 1906
Voice of St. Lucia, 77 reels, date range: 1885 - 1975
Voice (Castries, St. Lucia), 16 reels, date range: 1975 – 1986
West Indian (Saint George's, Grenada), 39 reels, date range: 1950-1973