''The Caribbean Times'' was a British weekly newspaper that was first published in 1981 by Hansib Publications, a publishing house for Caribbean, African and Asian writers and their communities, founded in London by Guyanese-born businessman Arif Ali in 1970. Marika Sherwood
review of ''Caribbean Publishing in Britain. A Tribute to Arif Ali'' by Asher Hoyles and Martin Hoyles (review no. 1106)
Reviews in History. The newspaper covered news, sport and social developments in the Caribbean, targeting the UK's

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and

African-Caribbean Afro-Caribbean or African Caribbean people are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean people descend from the Africans (primarily from West and Central Africa) ta ...

population. It was "an important anti-racist campaigning organ" and the UK's oldest Black weekly newspaper. Hansib brought out other publications, including the weekly ''Asian Times'' in 1983 and the ''African Times'' in 1984, but in 1997 sold off the newspapers in order to concentrate on producing books. The ''Caribbean Times'' was subsequently published by Ethnic Media Group Ltd, and in 2006 was merged with the ''

New Nation ''New Nation'' was a weekly newspaper published in the United Kingdom, UK for the Black British community. The newspaper was launched in November 1996 by Richard Adeshiyan, the founding Editor who gave the title its name. the newspaper was Bri ...

'', which had launched in 1996. After Ethnic Media Group went into administration in 2009, the rights to ''The Caribbean Times'' and other titles were sold.Owen Amos
"New Nation saved from closure after buyer is found"
, ''Press Gazette'', 25 February 2009.

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