Courtroom Shock in Pointe-à-Pitre: Guadeloupean artist François Moulin (“Blow”) and two exhibition organizers were acquitted after prosecutors targeted a painting showing a head resembling President Emmanuel Macron, a case tied to the wider, still-sensitive chlordecone fallout. Regional Health Access: Guadeloupe’s Health Minister Dr Ingrid Buffonge is pushing a “quiet vision” of rapid airlift for Montserrat emergencies—potentially reaching CHU in about 20 minutes—aimed at faster specialist care for high-risk conditions like diabetes and hypertension. Sargassum Cooperation: Expertise France and the Guadeloupe Region signed an MoU to coordinate the fight against the recurring sargassum surge, linking the SARSEA and SARG’COOP II efforts under roughly €11 million in investment. Global Policy Watch: Macron said France must address reparations for slavery’s legacy, but offered no clear plan. Science & Health Notes: New research traces upland cotton’s first domestication to Mexico’s Yucatán region; separately, a Guadeloupe-based divemaster credits scuba diving with ending decades of panic attacks.