"This Saturday (28 October) in Crawley the Chagossian community will be celebrating International Creole Day with a day of Chagossian cultural heritage activities at Crawley Library between 11am and 6pm. Activities include: sega music and dance performances, film screenings with Q&A, and activities for children, storytelling and poetry recitals, and the launch of the CHAGOS: Cultural Heritage Across Generations website. Chagossian community groups have been hard at work organ

This week the Chagossian community will celebrating Chagos Day, the exiled community's national day. The day will be an opportunity for the whole community to come together to celebrate their shared culture and heritage, involving those deported from the islands and those born in exile. With a government decision on return looming, some will hope it is the last Chagos Day they will spend in exile. Chagos Day itself takes place on 3 November, but the major celebrations will ta

This weekend the Chagossian community held a low key ceremoney of remeberance in 'Chagos Day,' timed to conincide with the UK-US agreement to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). An infamous condition of the agreement was the forced removal of the native Chagossian people. In a letter to The Times, members of the promenient Chagos Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group wrote to mark the occasion. They highlight the "unique opportunity" next year to "dispose of the