God keep our Caribbean islands safe during this hurricane season. Cover us and may no wave, depression, storm or any category of hurricane touch our shores, Amen.
BREAKING
Citing millions of dollars in losses, CAL's line minister Eli Zakour has announced that the airline will completely cut service to Dominica & St Kitts, end the direct service between Guyana & Suriname, and slash service to Martinique and Guadeloupe by half to 2x weekly.
as soon as youโre telling me you donโt like:
mango
avocado
sorrel
coconut water
breadfruit
plantain
ground provisions
dumplings
and youโre from the Caribbean, you automatically cannot be trusted and you should NEVER speak to me again ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ, thank ya!!
๐จ| WATCH: Speed talks about his Caribbean Tour and reveals how much it changed his mindset
โThe Caribbean Tour opened my eyesโฆ it made me realize I can take streaming to a different levelโฆ further than what it isโฆ I feel strong.โ โค๏ธ๐
Buenos dรญas Twitter Caribeรฑo! Saludos y bendiciones para todos!๐ต๐ท๐ฉ๐ด๐ญ๐น๐จ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ง๐ธ๐ป๐จ๐น๐น๐ง๐ง๐ป๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ง๐ง๐ฌ๐ต๐ฑ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฌ๐ธ๐ญ๐ง๐ฟ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฌ๐พ๐ธ๐ฝ๐ง๐ฑ๐จ๐ท๐จ๐ผ
I don't think the Caribbean Tour was a competition, all I saw were beautiful Caribbean islands with different culture and uniqueness ๐คท๐ฟโโ๏ธand now I got a lot of places added to my travel list now
RETWEET + REPLY to be added to a West Indies GC ๐ต๐ท๐ฉ๐ด๐ญ๐น๐จ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ง๐ธ๐น๐น๐ง๐ง๐ป๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ง๐ง๐ฌ๐ต๐ฑ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ถ++++ (No minors allowed)
Fifteen Kalinago chiefs walked into a meeting with the British and French empires in 1660 and walked out with both sides agreeing the island was theirs. Their descendants still live there today. You just watched some of them dance.
The Kalinago are the only native group in the Eastern Caribbean still around from before Columbus. Almost every other native group in the region was wiped out by European disease, slavery, displacement, or war. The Kalinago survived because they made Dominica too expensive to conquer.
They had the land on their side. Dominica is mountainous and wild, full of dense rainforest. Kalinago warriors raided European ships and ambushed anyone who tried to land on the coast. After nearly two centuries of failed invasions, both empires finally gave up. They signed a treaty making Dominica officially Kalinago land. That deal lasted more than a hundred years.
When Britain finally took the island in 1763, the Kalinago kept the rough east coast. They are still there. In 1903, Britain officially marked out the 3,700-acre territory, roughly six square miles. About 3,000 Kalinago live there today in eight small villages. The whole area runs by Kalinago rules. The land is shared and can only be sold to someone of Kalinago descent. Every five years, the Kalinago vote for their own chief and a six-member council to run the territory. Police based in Salybia keep order. They send their own representative to Dominica's parliament.
Two Kalinago women lead Dominica today. Sylvanie Burton became the country's first female and first Kalinago president in October 2023. A year later, Anette Sanford was sworn in as the first female Kalinago chief in almost 400 years.
The Kalinago's main traditional dance group is called Karifuna. The traditions they keep alive survived Spanish ships, French plantations, British soldiers, and Hurricane Maria, the 2017 storm that ripped the roof off almost every house in the territory.
Cousins โฆ.the places, food & culture we missed from your island iyoโฆ feel free to drop them on this tweet here for us who want to visit in the future ๐ฅน๐ซถ๐ฝ.
If I see any on the tl Iโll also link to this thread. ๐
Don't care about the negative comments about Dominica at the end of the day Speed said Dominica air is the freshest he's breathed, he got to eat a mango off a tree, he said bouyon is hard, he loved Red Rock and he's coming back to do a hike in Dominica. ๐