[ISL] Five Islands links: English in Colombia, Haida, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Sicily

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• Can a new film help preserve the English Creole spoken on the Colombian Caribbean islands of San Andres and Old Providence? The Guardian reports.


• Using film to help preserve an indigenous language is also a strategy being used by the Haida of Haida Gwaii, in British Columbia. CBC reports.


• Fredreka Schouten's account of visiting her native Virgin Islands to see the continued devastation is heart-rending, featured in USA Today.


• The recovery of agriculture in Puerto Rico is a hopeful sign, but will it be enough? National Geographic reports.


• Things do not look very good in Sicily. Spiegel reports.