Constructed between 1539 and 1790, Castillo San Felipe del Morro greatly increased in size from a small promontory with a single cannon to a six-level fortress that would intimidate even the bravest attackers
While spending some time, exploring and photographing the beauty of the Caribbean Island of Grand Turk, located in the Turks and Caicos Islands I was walking a small road . . .
If you’re a Caribbean writer who resides in the Caribbean, submit your poetry, fiction, or non-fiction by June 7, 2024 to Writing for Our Lives, “an anthology of stories illuminating the urgency of the climate crisis for people and communities of Caribbean states marked by their varied yet substantial vulnerabilities”.
The Early Caribbean Society will host Poetry for Liberation: From Haiti to Palestine on Friday, May 10, 2024 at 12 p.m. EST with readings from poets, students, and instructors. Donations to Care for Gaza.
" Current summer temperature outlooks for the US are certainly bringing the #heat. Above-average temperatures are forecast over nearly every square mile of the Lower 48.
“We anticipate a well above-average probability for major #hurricanes making landfall along the continental #UnitedStates coastline and in the #Caribbean,” the group said in a news release."
Kumina, an Afro-Jamaican religion based on communication with the ancestors, has Congolese origins and was brought to Jamaica by indentured Africans in the 1840s-1860s. The ritual dance, along with drumming that summons and controls the spirits, “seems to be the bridge between esoteric and the exotic...” (Olive Lewin, “Jamaica’s Folk Music”)
Article in Finnish, but very important in current #russia conflict
Kreml uses ”traditional Russian heritage” as reasons to setup paramilitary training abroad. These ”cossacks” are not ethnic #cossacks, but are paid by Russian state to conduct training with live weapons as ”heritage”
Of these Kremlin-funded cossacks around the world, 27000 have already fought in #ukraine
Needless to say, Cossacks are not originally Russian either, but from south Ukraine 🇺🇦
@gimulnautti yeah, I learned the history and present issues from a friend on Twitter who is from one of the federated nation states in the early days of the invasion. I was trying to navigate the #colonialism because I've seen much of it in the #caribbean and #latinamerica.
I was floored about how much I didn't know.
Putin is sending his opposition to the front lines. In that regard, he wins either way. Yet Ukraine has stepped up attacks on infrastructure, which is sound strategy.
“Earlier this month, Jamaica’s Taino chief, Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman, gave a presentation titled, ‘Stories as medicine: Taino and African Healing and the Environment in Jamaica’, at Northeastern University.”
A team from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) will go to Glasgow to retrieve a Jamaican Giant Galliwasp, a species now presumed extinct. This is said to be the first repatriation of a natural history specimen in the Caribbean.
Trump stands to gain billions… from the merger between TrumpMedia & Tech & the blank-check co [#SPAC] #DWAC, which took the parent company of #TruthSocial public.
But #TrumpMedia almost didn’t make it to the merger after #regulators opened a #securities investigation into it in 2021 & caused the co to burn through cash at an extraordinary rate as it waited…for its IPO.
The situation led TrumpMedia to take emergency #loans, incl’g from an entity called #ESFamilyTrust, which opened an acct w/ #PaxumBank, a small bank registered on the #Caribbean island of #Dominica best known for providing #financial services to the #porn industry.
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here, Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread, Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
...
Sit. Feast on your life.
À la limite des terres de la Guadeloupe. Après 6 mois de découvertes plus belles les unes que les autres, je termine mon exploration avec intensité grâce à Sixt Antilles.
Ainsi, voici plusieurs jours que je capture du contenu avec la Jeep Renegade, la Volkswagen Coccinelle, et la Volkswagen T-Roc !
Pour l’instant j’ai très peu le temps de me poser pour retoucher et publier, mais je terminerai ce travail au calme une fois de retour dans l’hexagone !
Fifty-nine disabled Haitian orphans and 13 of their caregivers arrived in Portland Jamaica by boat after 36 hours on the water, on Thursday March 21st, fleeing from the quickly collapsing gang-run Haiti....
59 Disabled Orphans embraced by Jamaica; the hard road out of Haiti (magneticmediatv.com)
Fifty-nine disabled Haitian orphans and 13 of their caregivers arrived in Portland Jamaica by boat after 36 hours on the water, on Thursday March 21st, fleeing from the quickly collapsing gang-run Haiti....