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Lush Caribbean tourist islands poisoned workers for decades with banned pesticide, protesters say

Streets and parks were crowded on the French island of Martinique over the weekend as thousands of residents protested the government’s lack of progress on a compensation bid over the harm done by a program of using a highly toxic insecticide on banana plantations. From 1972 to 1993, chlordecone was used to protect the crop from bugs — but protest organizers say its damaging effects on humans had been known as early as the 1960s. Even though the...

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