#Barbados
To culminate the inaugural flight celebrations of #InterCaribbean Airways between St. Kitts and Barbados, the #StKittsTourism Authority in collaboration with InterCaribbean Airways and #Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc hosted a promotion event at Hilton Barbados Resort. https://bit.ly/3mTYFyQ
Atlantic Ocean in the foreground. Caribbean Sea beyond the point, which is the northernmost point of Barbados. Taken from inside the Animal Flower Cave. #Barbados
Codrington College #Barbados Feb 2020
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #photography #AltText #FediArt #MastoArt #MastodonArt #FollowFriday
Regular home to family getaways, honeymoons, and recently even marriage proposals, La Lune is a charming 2 bedroom beach house located on Gibbs beach. A Housekeeper/Cook and spectacular sunets are all included when you stay.
Learn more: https://www.hammertonbarbados.com/villas/la-lune
Let's join this drone tour of the popular St. Lawrence Gap area on the south coast of #Barbados 👍🏽
New nonstop #interCaribbean Airways flights between #Barbados and #StKitts - #Nevis are being hailed by #tourism stakeholders as a step in the right direction to solve to the connectivity challenges facing the region. https://bit.ly/3TrAT9Q
The #StKitts Tourism Authority is bringing awareness to its new campaign “#SummerofFun” with interviews at various media houses in #Barbados. https://bit.ly/3yGtqKb
In this century, there is new momentum for #reparations & the intervention of Mia Mottley of #Barbados may spur things at the heart of a movement that forms an unbroken link between the Caribbean, Africa & America. https://www.rashmee.com/2023/03/15/barbados-may-give-energy-to-reparations-case-which-is-as-much-about-politics-as-money/
An exciting #Barbados horse race captured by drone! 🏇🏽 https://barbadosbydrone.com/drones/horse-racing
Following a huge rennovatoin, Honeycomb House at Queens Fort offers a luxurious boho chic aethetic, a gorgeous pool, cottage, and yoga studio, just a few steps from the beach.
Learn more: https://www.hammertonbarbados.com/villas/queens-fort-5-honeycomb-house
#FloridaFriday: A #macro #photograph of the delicate, #pink #flowers of the Dwarf #Barbados #Cherry #Tree with the bright yellow pollen in the center.
The #plant is native to the Yucatan Peninsula, but has spread throughout the coast of the Gulf of Mexico into Texas and Central #Florida, as well as the Caribbean, and in South America as far south as Peru.
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/dwarf-barbados-cherry-flower-macro-2-heron-and-fox.html
F2 where the fick is #Barbados?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados
Exploring the beautiful east coast of #Barbados by drone... https://barbadosbydrone.com/drones/cattlewash-east-coast/
Recently renovated, Villa Aama on Sandy Lane offers 7 bedrooms for 14 guests. Staffing includes a Housekeeper, Laundress, Chef, and Buter (at Christmas). Guests also enjoy membership at the Sandy Lane Beach Club.
Learn more: https://www.hammertonbarbados.com/villas/villa-aama
A #macro #photograph of #Barbados #dwarf #cherry #tree #flowers. #MalpighiaEmarginata, also called the #acerolacherry, or #Guaranicherry, or #wildcrepemyrtle, is native to #CentralAmerica, the #Caribbean, and even into #Florida. It is #cultivated in the #subtropics for its #edible #fruit, which has only a three day shelf life, so it is not common where the plant cannot be grown.
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/dwarf-barbados-cherry-flower-macro-2-heron-and-fox.html
Carter, D. J., (2023) “A political ecology analysis of tourism development and water equity in Barbados”, Journal of Political Ecology 30(1), 144–165. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.3002 #Barbados #politicalecology #hydropolitics
#InterCaribbeanAirways (ICA) announced that it will begin flying to #StKitts and #Nevis from March 12, 2023. new air services from #Barbados to St Kitts, effective March 12, 2023,” ICA said in a social media post. https://bit.ly/3KD4OJQ
Beachfront luxury villa 'Greensleeves' on Gibbs beach features 10 bedrooms, sleeping 20 guests, and features a private pool, cinema, gym, housekeeper, laundress, chef, and butler.
Learn more: https://www.hammertonbarbados.com/villas/greensleeves
#Barbados #Luxury #Beachfront #Villa #Rental #Travel #Vacation #PropertyShowcase
A window onto the ocean from a sea cave in #Barbados (March 2020)
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #photography #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtMatters #MastodonArt
#BritishAirways has scrapped community fares to its #Caribbean destinations in a move that some are saying will 'decimate' travel from the #UK to #Barbados, #Antigua, #StLucia, #Guyana, #Dominica, #StKitts and #Tobago. https://bit.ly/3K7eeNe
Random fact I just learned: Rihanna isn't the first Bajan to perform at the SuperBowl. The Merrymen performed at halftime for SuperBowl XII in 1979. 🤯 #sports #Caribbean #Barbados
Powdery white sand and turquoise water. Plus a few bars, restaurants, and hotels just to keep things lively. That's #Barbados.
More values from the 1953 pictorial set, with a portrait of the young Queen Elizabeth II. Engraved and printed in two colors.
- 4 cents statue of Horatio Nelson, unused
- 8 cents inter colonial schooner, with 1955 circular date stamp from St. George
- 12 cents flying fish, with 1950s airmail circular date stamp from General Post Office, Bridgetown
In 1953, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II replaced that of her father George VI on the same set of engraved pictorial stamps. Here are the lowest three values in the set.
- 1 cent cannons at Dover Fort, Speightstown, unused
- 2 cents Sugar Cane Breeding, used without visible cancel
- 3 cents Public Buildings (also known as Parliament Buildings) at Bridgetown, Barbados, unused
The only stamp from the 1950 pictorial definitive set that I have is the 12 cents Flying Fish. One of the oddest looking stamps ever...
An engraved stamp, printed in two colors, olive and aqua. Each stamp in the set features a portrait of King George VI.
Tomorrow, I'll share a few stamps from a similar set with portraits of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
A small paper but one about a place very close to my heart. I love #Barbados for many reasons. Over 20+ years of running workshops, I have watched the #BellairsResearchInstitute reef slowly die. I still remember my first year there, surfing on the small break with my PhD supervisor Mike Fellows just before sunset, looking down in the water filled with clouds of fish and sometimes even turtles. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-022-02330-y
The last stamps I have to share from the 1938-1947 colonial seal set are two color varieties of the 1 shilling value. The perforations of both measure 13 1/2 x 13.
- Scott # 200 brown olive, with partial "Air Mail" cancel
- Scott # 200a olive green, used with a faint cancellation.
Next up from the 1938-1947 series, the four pence value.
The Scott Standard Catalogue lists two perforation varieties for this stamp.
I have the more common perf. 13 1/2 x 13 variety, Scott # 198.
Postmark is from the General Post Office at Bridgetown, Barbados - the capital city.
Next up from the 1938-1947 series, the three pence value.
The Scott Standard Catalogue list brown and deep blue versions of this stamp, with two perforation varieties for the brown stamp.
I have an unused copy of the 1938 perf. 14 variety, Scott 197b.
Postage rates increased during World War II, requiring the addition of a new two pence stamp in 1941. The Scott Standard Catalogue lists two colors and a perforation variety for this value.
I have the 1943 bright rose red variety with perf. 14, Scott # 195Ba.
Notice the "blotchiness" of the oval numeral tablets at the lower corners.
#StampCollecting #Barbados
Next up from the 1938-1947 series, the one and one half pence value, with two perforation varietes.
- Scott # 195 red orange, perf. 13 1/2 x 13, unused
- # 195c, perf. 14 with 1945 postmark from the General Post Office at Bridgetown
- black and white image to isolate the "10 AM, 15 May, 1945" postmark
#StampCollecting #Barbados
Next up from the 1938-1947 series, two perforation varieties of the one penny green first issued in 1942. (I do not have either of the two listed varieties of the 1 penny carmine of 1938.)
- Scott # 194A perf. 14
- 194Ad perf. 13 1/2 x 13 with 1947 postmark of the General Post Office, Bridgetown
- black and white image to isolate the postmark
#StampCollecting The 1938-1947 #Barbados definitive stamps have updated the colonial seal to include King George VI as Neptune. The Scott Catalogue listing is a complicated mess with inserted numbers (with capital letter suffixes) and perforation varieties (lower case suffixes).
I'll share what I have in catalogue order. All are engraved.
First up, 193A 1/2 pence bister, perf. 13 1/2 x 13, issued in 1942
#UKGovernment and #RoyalFamily must take responsibility for their involvement in the horrendous transatlantic #SlaveTrade and its legacy of oppression and exploitation, #Barbados ambassador says.
#StampCollecting In 1920 #Barbados celebrated the victory of the Allies in WWI. Two low values from a set of 12.
A winged angel presenting the laurel wreath of victory. I enjoy the lion heads in the upper corners of the frame.
Engraved and printed in two colors. The stamps are dated 1919 but actually issued in September, 1920.
- 1/4 penny bister frame
- 1 penny orange red frame
- black and white inverted image isolating the 1921 circular date stamp and the vignette of the 1 penny value.
#StampCollecting #Barbados stamps, from 1916, the one penny carmine colonial seal definitive stamp updated: King George V is driving the seahorse chariot (with paddle wheels?)
Line engraved, in a larger size than the typographed stamps I've been sharing so far.
- the stamp: with added Latin motto, "Et penitus toto regnantes orbe britannos" ("…and Britain rules the whole world")
- closeup view of George V as Neptune
- black & white circular date stamp from 1918 (or maybe 1919)
Continuing in chronological order sharing #Barbados stamps, from 1912, the one penny carmine George V definitive stamp featuring the colonial seal with the addition of (presumably) a stalk of sugar cane added. Queen Victoria is still driving the seahorse chariot.
Letterpress or "typographed" printing.
- the stamp
- the circular date stamp showing a May, 1914 date. (image inverted to make it easier to read)
#StampCollecting Continuing in chronological order sharing #Barbados Stamps, from 1892, the one penny carmine rose colonial seal or badge for Barbados.
Letterpress or "typographed" printing.
- Queen Victoria carrying Neptune's trident and driving a shell chariot pulled by two "sea horses."
- a closeup of Queen Victoria as Neptune
- the watermark, Crown and CA (Scott Catalogue Wmk. 2)
The first #TheContinent issue of 2023 has arrived, full of the usual fascinating insights + view from #Africa. This week also on the history of #Slavery in #Barbados + the charming #Drax family, who still own a #sugar plantation on the island, where an estimated 30,000 Africans died working as #slaves.
The main scion Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (sic) is a British Conservative MP (Harrow, Sandhurst, Coldstream guards) worth an estimated £180 million.
Incoming mail has been sadly bereft of stamps this week, so nothing new to share.
I've been sorting some #Barbados stamps, and a few needed soaking, so I'll share a few of these this week.
First up, this from 1882, the one penny Queen Victoria definitive. Printed by what the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue calls "typography" (better known as letterpress) in the shade of red known as "carmine rose."
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch Called Out For Benefitting From Slavery
#TYT #IndisputableTYT #News #reparations #benedictcumberbatch #barbados
https://archive.org/details/barbados-panama
De Barbados a Panamá = From Barbados to Panama by Melva Lowe de Goodin
Topics
#Barbados, #Panamá, #Panama, #Africandiaspora, #diásporaafricana, #Caribbean, #Caribe, #migrantworkers, #trabajadoresmigrantes, #Panamanianliterature, #literaturaPanameña, #teatroPanameño, #Panamaniantheater, #Barbadiandiaspora, #Bajandiaspora, #diasporaBarbadense, #antiblackness, #negrofobia
Segunda Edición
Deep job cuts in Silicon Valley could bring tech workers back to Canada
“I’ve worked in several companies in Toronto,” Trevor Lai said. “The people there are amazing. Everything is awesome – except for the pay.”
"Anyone leaving the U.S. has options that extend far beyond #Canada... People are “going to want to work from #Mexico, from #Barbados, from #Bermuda,” said Hongwei Liu, [at] Mappedin “If you can take your laptop and work from anywhere, why are you in #Ontario?”" https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-silicon-valley-layoffs-hiring-talent-canada/
What a week for #LGBTQ+ rights in #Europe and the #Caribbeans:
🏳️🌈 #Scotland #SelfID #GRRBill passed
🏳️🌈 #Spain #SelfID #LeyTrans passed
🏳️🌈 #Ukraine #HateSpeechBan #ЛГБТК passed
🏳️🌈 #Barbados #GayMarriage decriminalised by HighCourt
cc @lgbtqia
No idea what species it is (didn’t manage to grab the botanical garden tag), but one of my favorites from the past year.
📸 #Leica M 50/2 V, #SonyA7 III
Taken: 4/2022
Rough location: https://w3w.co/surveyed.unique.professed
#FlowerForest #Barbados
SEOs from Mastodon,
@bluearrayseo has kindly nominated me as speaker of the year.
Here is the deal, If I win, I'll give my speaking slot to the talented Makayla Yearwood from the New SEO community in #Barbados
Too much of me, lets bring new talent in 2023!
Vote here: https://londonseomeetup.com/vote/
Thank you! #seo
🙏
Sometimes I just look at the Google map of #Barbados and move my cursor around places I used to live and visit. I miss it so much.
Following the #Caribbean hashtags so I can find my neighbors in #Cuba, #RepublicaDominicana, #PuertoRico, #USVirginIslands, #Antigua, #Dominica #Barbados #TrinidadAndTobago #Montserrat #BritishVirginIslands #Guadaloupe #Martinique
In Puerto Rico we are using #MastodonPR to keep in touch!
Jumping in last minute to fill up a vacant speaker slot at the inaugural Barbados SEO meetup involved hastily booking transatlantic flights & hotel, and rearranging a work schedule already impacted by COVID cases.
And it was worth it.
What a week. Got to hang out with old industry friends, make a bunch of new ones, soak up knowledge & expertise from some of the best in the business, and enjoy the wonders of the Caribbean.
10/10, would do again.
The incredible Mia Mottley, prime minister of #barbados gave the 20th Nelson Mandela lecture yesterday. Powerful message and oration as always from her and so worth listening to. https://youtu.be/hyEQL52Gv4E
#OtD 8 Apr 1958 sugar cane workers in #Barbados kick-started wildcat strike which spread to plantations around the country https://libcom.org/library/continuing-fight-economic-justice-barbadian-sugar-workers-1958-wildcat-strike
Champions of the Earth: Mia Mottley versus the ‘faceless few’
The Prime Minister of #Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has spent years campaigning against #pollution, #ClimateChange and #deforestation, turning Barbados into a frontrunner in the global environmental movement.
She has been awarded the 2021 Champions of the Earth Award, the UN’s highest environmental honour.
blob:https://www.youtube.com/06166a7f-8e55-4ef7-bbe1-dc7b22cb3299
Well done #barbados as the people of #grenada found. Being a member of the British Commonwealth and having the Queen as head of state. Gives no protection against the #usa illegal invasion to bring about regime change. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/barbados-to-formally-drop-british-monarch-as-its-head-of-state
#Barbados parts way with Queen and becomes world’s newest #republic | Barbados | The Guardian
Good for them, hope the rest follow suit. Now what about #Canada and #Australia? Then of course there’s #Britain too.
Dienstag: GoDaddy mit Datenpanne und Barbados gründet Metaverse-Botschaft
Barbados gründet die erste Metaverse-Botschaft der Welt
Mittwoch: Chip-Hortung, Windows 11, Firefox 93, Facebook-Ausfall & SMS-Comeback
https://archive.org/details/black-rebellion-in-barbados
Black Rebellion In Barbados: The Struggle Against Slavery, 1627-1838 by Hilary Beckles
Topics
#Barbados, #Bajan, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #slaverebellions, #slaveuprisings, #slaverevolts, #revolt, #rebellion, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #abolition, #frontiersocieties, #creolization, #creole, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #britishempire, #slavetrade, #laborhistory, #counterinsurgency
"This year (1984) marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the formal abolition of slavery in the English-speaking Caribbean and this work is intended to commemorate the occasion.
"Comorians were skilled at developing their networks not only within the wider region but, following the European arrival in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century, with the wider world. Far from being forgotten outposts of a foreign colonial power, in centuries past the #Comoros were well known to Arab navigators, English civil servants and American whalers while Comorians themselves travelled to places as far afield as #Barbados, Siberia, London and Penang.
https://archive.org/details/irishsurnamesandslaveownership
Irish Surnames And Slave Ownership
by
Liam Hogan
Publication date
2015-03-06
Topics
#irish, #ireland, #slavery, #history, #caribbean, 'unitedstatesofamerika, #blackchattelslavery, #slaveownership, #slaveships, #BightofBiafra, #Anomabu, #Ghana, #StHelena, #GrandCapeMount, #Liberia, #SierraLeone, #Africa, #Calabar, #Nigeria, #BananaIslands, #ÎlesdeLos, #IvoryCoast, #NewCalabar, #Dublin, #Mayo, #Carlow, #CountyWicklow, #Galway, #CountyDonegal, #CountyMeath, #CountyTyrone, #CountyAntrin, #CountyLouth, #Cork, #Waterford, #CountyDerry, #CountyLaois, #CountyTipperary, #CountySilgo, #Jamaica, #Antigua, #Honduras, #StKitts, #StKittsandNevis, #Grenada, #Dominica, #Waitukubuli, #Nevis, #VirginIslands, #StLucia, #Guyana, #Montserrat, #Bermuda, #TheBahamas, #Tobago, #StVincent, #StVincentandtheGrenadines, #Trinidad, #TrinidadandTobago, #Barbados, #Mauritius, #CapeofGoodHope, #SouthAfrica, #AntiguaandBarbuda, #unitedkingdom, #britishempire, #greatbritain, #colonialism, #imperialism, #Anguilla
https://archive.org/details/ukslaveownercompensation
Accounts of slave compensation claims; for the colonies of Jamaica. Antigua. Honduras. St. Christopher's. Grenada. Dominica. Nevis. Virgin Islands. St. Lucia. British Guiana. Montserrat. Bermuda. Bahamas. Tobago. St. Vincent's. Trinidad. Barbadoes. Mauritius. Cape of Good Hope. by House of Commons
Topics #slavery, #unitedkingdom, #slaveowners, #slavecompensation, #whitesupremacy, #Jamaica, #Antigua, #Honduras, #StKitts, #StKittsandNevis, #Grenada, #Dominica, #Waitukubuli, #Nevis, #VirginIslands, #StLucia, #Guyana, #Montserrat, #Bermuda, #TheBahamas, #Tobago, #StVincent, #StVincentandtheGrenadines, #Trinidad, #TrinidadandTobago, #Barbados, #Mauritius, #CapeofGoodHope, #SouthAfrica, #AntiguaandBarbuda
Been wondering who these fuckers were. #Barbados #Bajan #slavery #Caribbean @OCRbot
Barb-adios: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/barbados-republic-queen-elizabeth-head-state-b450871.html
#Dominica was the only UK #Caribbean territory to be a republic on independence, although Trinidad later followed and now #Barbados also.
With offices still shut and schools in limbo, tourist spots like Barbados and Bermuda are inviting remote workers and long-term travelers to their shores with special certificate and visa programs https://on.wsj.com/3hCvvg3 https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1299100666993037312 #WSJ #Barbados
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SLockdown: Working From Home Abroad - where is home? Some options
decentralize.today - FEATURE: Lockdown Working From Home Abroad? options for riding out the pandemic whilst still working #georgia #barbados #costarica
If you can work remotely, Barbados want you to come and stay for a year https://boingboing.net/2020/07/09/if-you-can-work-remotely-barb.html #boingboing #Barbados
Some recent purchases. I've tried the Mezan XO before, & it makes a mean daiquiri (Jamaican #rum is awesome for mixing), but the Doorly's 8-year & #Foursquare Premise were new to me.
This Doorly's is an excellent entry-level sipper, but not as good as their 12-year. It's good in an Old Fashioned, but makes Coke taste bitter/astringent. The Premise is fine...but only after a couple drops of water. It sort of tastes like baking spices.
For no particular reason, here's a #photo of a #monkey I took in #Barbados last year. #photograohy #wildlife #carribbean #vacation #m43 #panasonic #tropical #animal
