#caribbean
Another time the British got their ass kicked by rebelling Maroons and Enslaved People. (Thread)
#BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #Caribbean #CaribbeanHistory #History #StLucia #SaintLucia #AbolitionistsGetThingsDone
#FreedomWonNotGranted
If your work focuses on the Caribbean or the African continent and its diasporas, and your research and teaching take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, you might be interested in a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in Black Cultural Studies at New York University.
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#Employment
#Academia
#Caribbean
#BlackStudies
#BlackDiaspora
#BlackFediverse
#BlackMastodon
"No Love" relays much of #ByronMessia’s story – being an adopted child from #Jamaica, growing up in #StKitts and NevisIsland, and the trials and tribulations it took to start bubbling musically on the #Caribbean island. https://tinyurl.com/yp7k634a
Imagine a place where the sun kisses the ocean, where history meets luxury, and where nature's beauty remains untouched by time. Welcome to #NevisIsland, the #Caribbean's best-kept secret. https://tinyurl.com/yc2dsbfx
Haiti: Peasants defend their Food Sovereignty amidst new attempts at international interference https://viacampesina.org/en/haiti-peasants-defend-their-food-sovereignty-amidst-new-attempts-at-international-interference/ #Land,WaterandTerritories #InternationalSolidarity #HaitiPeaceMission #FoodSovereignty #Caribbean #Haiti #Zoom
So far, this is the biggest Jamaican spider I've ever seen. So clever for weaving a web where pollinators visit. Poor wasp.
Like other trickster spirits, the folktale character Anansi (Akan word meaning "spider") in Jamaican culture teaches us to be cunning and to use our common sense so that we won't be deceived.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxdgpPHLqPi/
#Spider
#Anansi
#Jamaica
#JamaicanFolklore
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanFolklore
The premier of Bermuda said the island another Caribbean nation are currently dealing with a cyberattack that prompted several announcements about damaged internet and phone infrastructure
https://therecord.media/bermuda-government-cyberattack-premier-attributes-russia
The #Dutch #Caribbean Coast Guard (DCCG) assisted in the rescuing of eleven persons including a baby from a sinking ship near #StKitts - #NevisIsland on September 20. https://tinyurl.com/2s6b3ncp
#NevisIsland Historical and #Conservation Society has entered into a collaboration with the Institute of #Caribbean Studies & The Futures Forum to host an evening of thought-provoking storytelling & A Day of Visioning the Future You Want. https://tinyurl.com/y7ptf94d
It's time for another #AskAProfessor. Ask me anything! I'm a prof. of English who teaches #DigiRhet #composition #socialmedia #sciencefiction #gaming #TTRPGs + more. Study #fandom #Caribbean #literature #SFF + #postcolonialism. Have at it!
Happy Independence Day to St. Kitts and Nevis! 🇰🇳
St. Kitts and Nevis was first declared an independent nation on September 19, 1983.
September 19 will bring the 40th anniversary of #independence for the youngest #Caribbean nation, #StKitts and #NevisIsland.https://tinyurl.com/528y4pa8
No hype, just #hurricanes: https://TheEyewall.com is a new (to me) #forecasting #weather #blog “covering #tropical activity in the #Atlantic Ocean, #Caribbean Sea, and #GulfOfMexico,” founded by @mattlanza and @sciguyspace of #Houston-based #forecaster https://SpaceCityWeather.com
Check their page on #hurricane #preparedness and #evacuation: https://TheEyewall.com/hurricane-preparedness-and-information-on-evacuation/
I am looking into #Grenadas entries. It has 534 ships. it goes till 1837. the last ship arrived after the official ending of slavery in the #caribbean in 1834. The enstalved people didn't got a last name by a buyer but instead keeped their african surnames:
https://youtu.be/XPQzDJTJbsM?feature=shared&t=1057
(highly reccomend this doc!)
3/x
🇭🇹 🔥 🛠️ 🇭🇹 The Crisis Is Imperialism: Urgent Teach-In on Haiti: https://youtu.be/MHDCx9-2Rig?si=QVQH09jVxhRvuqnj 🇭🇹 🔥 🛠️ 🇭🇹
#Haiti #USoutofHaiti #BlackAllianceforPeace #Americas #caribbean
Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has been appointed to serve as President Tsai Ing-wen's envoy to attend the #independence celebrations of #StKitts and #NevisIsland in the #Caribbean, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday. https://tinyurl.com/bdfb6udp
The Heartbeat of the Ghetto: Jamaica, Reggae Music, and HostRooster https://blog.hostrooster.com/2023/09/the-heartbeat-of-ghetto-jamaica-reggae.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Beaches #BobMarley #Caribbean #Culture #History
The Heartbeat of the Ghetto: Jamaica, Reggae Music, and HostRooster https://blog.hostrooster.com/2023/09/the-heartbeat-of-ghetto-jamaica-reggae.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Beaches #BobMarley #Caribbean #Culture #History
PETITION - NO TO INTERVENTION IN HAITI - We call on individuals and organizations in the US, Canada, the Caribbean, and Central & Latin America, esp. Member states of CELAC & CARICOM to demand their elected reps SAY NO to any resolution to the military intervention in Haiti #handsoffhaiti #nointervention
https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/opposeblackfaceimperialisminhaiti
#BlackAllianceforPeace
#HandsoffHaiti #Haiti #caribbean
Nii Ayikwei Parkes: Following heritage threads from Africa to the Caribbean
Novelist, poet and storyteller Nii Ayikwei Parkes travels to the #Caribbean to research his past – a complex heritage that has been fractured and scattered by the impact of the #SlaveTrade
For many, especially white people, it is difficult to understand how something that ended centuries ago could still resonate today and affect people and communities. Nii Ayikwei Parkes takes the reader on his journey and sheds light on how the slave trade impacted the enslaved as well as the communities they were taken from.
https://geographical.co.uk/culture/following-heritage-threads-in-the-caribbean-nii-ayikwei-parkes
#blackmastodon #blackhistory #news
Pier in the Caribbean ocean
YOU CAN FIND IT HERE:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pier-in-the-caribbean-ocean-patricia-hofmeester.html
By https://buff.ly/3i3uCm2 #WallArt #homedecor #fineart #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #LoveArt #BuyArtNotCandy #photography @PatriciaPhotos #pier #caribbean #ocean #turquoise #beautiful #sea #water #paradise
At the end of the two-day forum of the #Caribbean Network Operators Group, the #StKitts and Nevis Internet Exchange Point (SKNIX) was launched yesterday. #NevisIsland will benefit from faster, cheaper Internet access. https://tinyurl.com/yc698dkk
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this Taino diorama from the Museum of the Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
#model #IndigenousPeoples #taino #diorama #PuertoRico #caribbean #SanJuan
Discover the Authentic Charms of Morgan's Cliff: Your Jamaican Paradise https://blog.hostrooster.com/2023/09/discover-authentic-charms-of-morgans.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AuthenticCharm #Beaches #Boscobel #Caribbean #Cliffside
Discover the Authentic Charms of Morgan's Cliff: Your Jamaican Paradise https://blog.hostrooster.com/2023/09/discover-authentic-charms-of-morgans.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AuthenticCharm #Beaches #Boscobel #Caribbean #Cliffside
The #StKitts and #Nevis #Patriots have secured their first victory in the ongoing #Caribbean Premier League (#CPL) 2023. The #cricket team won against #SaintLucia Kings by four wickets. https://tinyurl.com/mrktc8hd
#StKitts and #Nevis: A 24-year-old man was shot dead in the parking lot of the #Caribbean Cinemas Multiplex at Buckley’s area in St Kitts. https://tinyurl.com/46khfb7s
This summer, the #StKitts Tourism Authority curated a myriad of authentic experiences for visitors: The annual #StKittsMusicFestival, Restaurant Week, #NevisIsland Culturama and the #Caribbean Premier League. https://tinyurl.com/mtznbedy
I saw #Kes yesterday (the Trinidadian #soca group, not the Star Trek character), and it felt like the room area was 75% covered Trinidad and Tobago flags, 20% other #Caribbean flags, then me.
It was great.
#Caribbean nations set to demand #royalfamily makes reparations for #slavetrade
RLM Arts Poster Catalog, p740: "Soul Food" (2001)
“Making sabrosura out of empty calories is an act of resistance, and soul food is damn good medicine.” Words from Ricardo's sister, historian and author Aurora Levins Morales.
Available here for $12: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/soul-food/
#PuertoRico #Caribbean #Boricua #SoulFood #MastoArt #FediGiftShop
"All Night Long (All Night)" is a hit single by American singer and songwriter #LionelRichie from 1983. Taken from his second solo album, #CantSlowDown (1983), it combined Richie's soulful #Commodores style with #Caribbean influences. This single reached number one on three Billboard charts (pop, R&B and adult contemporary). In the UK, it peaked at number two on the #singlesChart. The song lyrics were written primarily in English.
https://youtu.be/2PEGcXHhE98
Ok, so I started feeling LESS antsy.
#Lee seems to have began to veer ever so slightly North.
Two #Category5 #storms swirl simultaneously: #HurricanesLee in the #Atlantic #Caribbean & #HurricaneJova off #Mexico's #Pacific coast in highly #rare #weather event. Both #hurricanes experienced extremely rapid #intensification. #Cat5
Hundreds of #Caribbean islanders forced to abandon homes amid rising #SeaLevels
Experts worry it will put the culture and way of life of #CartiSugtupu’s #Indigenous community of fewer than 2,000 at risk
by Verity Bowman, September 6, 2023
"Hundreds of people are preparing to escape a tiny Caribbean island as rising waters threaten to engulf their homes.
"The densely populated island of Carti Sugtupu off #Panama’s north coast is under threat from climate change induced sea level rises, suffering from flooding on a regular basis.
"Experts say the sea will engulf #Carti #Sugtupu and dozens of neighbouring islands in the Guna Yala region by the end of the century.
Forty-nine of the islands are populated and are just a few feet above sea level.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CaribbeanIslanders #ClimateRefugees #IndigenousNews #RisingSeaLevels
'We're going to sink': hundreds abandon Caribbean island home #Caribbean #climate #ClimateChange https://phys.org/news/2023-09-hundreds-abandon-caribbean-island-home.html
Inshallah, but I ain't seeing much pushing #Lee Eastwards, FWIW.
More new collage art... Work in progress... #art #groningen #kunst #artist #collage #collageart #collagekunst #sxm #sceafa #gusknot #wip #workinprogress #kunstenaar #artexpo #dutch #caribbean #kunstingroningen #collagekunstenaar #collagecollective #collageartist #collageexpo #artgallery #artcollector #museum #popartcollage
And here is another new collage art piece on which I am currently working...
#art #groningen #kunst #artist #collage #collageart #collagekunst #sxm #sceafa #gusknot #wip #workinprogress #kunstenaar #artexpo #dutch #caribbean #kunstingroningen #collagekunstenaar #collagecollective #collageartist #collageexpo #artgallery #artcollector #museum #popartcollage
Trop Storm Lee turned into Tropical Cyclone *aka HURRICANE) #Lee, some 20hrs ahead of projected change...
#Florida #Caribbean #NHC #NOAA
Issues for Guadeloupe's LGBT community: transidentity, religion, coming out, being born or becoming LGBT
https://76crimes.com/2023/09/06/guadeloupe-the-challenge-of-bringing-together-the-lgbt-community/
#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTrights #humanrights #LGBTQrights #Guadeloupe #Caribbean
Next was an engaging panel on #Caribbean regional integration at Brown with Patsy Lewis, Andy Knight, and Alissa Trotz. The discussion gets into how Caribbeans can exercise agency in governance, the economy, and more https://lnkd.in/eKS_XN76 (5/7)
"Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring that has coerced its citizens to fight for #Russia in the #war in #Ukraine, its foreign ministry said on Monday, adding that Cuban authorities were working to "neutralize and dismantle" the network.
...Cuba's foreign ministry gave few details, but noted the trafficking ring was operating both within the #Caribbean island nation, thousands of miles from #Moscow, and in Russia."
https://www.reuters.com/world/cuba-uncovers-human-trafficking-cubans-fight-russia-ukraine-2023-09-05/
Next was the subsequent panel on #Caribbean futures also at Brown with Brian Meeks, Patsy Lewis, Aaron Kamugisha, Paget Henry, Alissa Trotz, Daniel Rodriguez, Francio Guadeloupe, and Gabrielle Hosein. While I don't agree with all of the economic system conclusions here, this is an important conversation to consider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P42p-SnGXlk (3/10)
First was an interesting conversation on #Caribbean futures with Aaron Kamugisha and Brian Meeks at The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. This gives a nice overview of the state of Caribbean societies and economies as well as visions for where it should go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGAWLUwuPQM&t=2s (2/10)
Pictures from our first trip to #Montserrat in 2012, home to the #JimmyBuffett song #Volcano.
https://deirdre.net/2013/one-year-ago-today-into-the-exclusion-zone/
NYPD will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns
https://apnews.com/article/drones-labor-day-eric-adams-nypd-jouvert-c2787e87bcad8fa87aa8d34b454ee6cf
New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants police to embrace the “endless” potential of drones, citing Israel’s use of the technology.
But privacy advocates say regulations have not kept up, opening the door to intrusive surveillance that would be illegal if conducted by a human police officer.
#POSTAct #racism #surveillance #jouvert #Caribbean #festival #Privacy #drones #NYC #NYPD
"It's Beautiful..."
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1988 US Virgin Islands Commercial
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#Commercial #TvCommercial #USVirginIslands #Caribbean #retro #Vintage #BlackMastodon #BlackFriday #BlackVisability
Good things are happening in my country. 😍
“Di Cawna Library repurposes old refrigerators and turns them into book cupboards...
The residents wanted to engage and uplift their communities. They wanted their children to read more, and to be able to improve and upscale their way of life. It is a hub for the written and spoken word, along with other activities [and] engagement.”
Thinking of opening a #restaurant in Haiti serving foods from the 19th century. I shall call it “Palates of the #Caribbean.
If you're anywhere near Leeds, I *highly* recommend visiting Leeds West Indian Carnival on Monday! It's been running since 1967 and is truly something to be experienced - and if you see me, come say hi! I'll probably be behind a camera 😂
It's time for another #AskAProfessor. Ask me anything! I'm a prof. of English who teaches #DigiRhet #composition #socialmedia #sciencefiction #gaming #TTRPGs + more. Study #fandom #Caribbean #literature #SFF + #postcolonialism. Have at it!
Durante la noche la tormenta tropical #Franklin estará llegando a la Isla de Haití y República Dominicana
Una semana activa en el Caribe.
#Providencia is a remote island that has uncrowded white sand #beaches and #turquoise waters. It belongs to #Colombia, people here speak English. Want to #getaway from it all?
#travel #BUCKETLIST #vacation #Paradise #Caribbean #sunshine #trip https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Providencia/
Our Monday update talks about the potential for Gulf development before Invest 91L comes ashore in Texas on Tuesday morning. We also discuss Tropical Storm Franklin's future in the Caribbean, as it is poised to bring substantial rain to the Dominican Republic. That and more: https://theeyewall.com/august-21-2023-outlook-gulf-tropical-wave-chugs-west-toward-south-texas-ts-franklin-to-drench-parts-of-the-dominican-republic/
#hurricane #storms #gulf #texas #weather #tropics #txwx #caribbean #tropicalstorms #hispaniola #invest91l #franklin #tropicalstormfranklin #dominicanrepublic #haiti #bermuda #puertorico
Important announcement: If you come for the best patty in #CostaRica, rushing is not allowed! Food doesn’t come in a can. When you’re in the #Caribbean, relaxing is mandatory.
Petrofuture Mexico…66m sea level rise on a 1956 road map.
#Pemex would be more appropriate, but #ShellOil will have to do
Base from David Rumsey Maps
More at
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/
#TropicalStormHilary #mexico #Belize #Guatemala #Honduras #Nicaragua #ElSalvador #Caribbean #GulfOfMexico #BajaCalifornia #historicalmaps #vintagemaps #petrofuture #sealevelrise #sealevelrisemaps #climatechange #climatechangemaps #maps #cartography #clifi #climateart #conspiracyofcartographers
Sylvia Hall - “Don't Touch That Thing” (1974)
Cool song about hiding a pregnancy, I think. ???
It’s from a compilation released in 2007 that explores the pan-American funk experience from 1969 to 1976.
#WorldMusic #Funk #Soul #Caribbean #Bahamas #compilation #music
Haiti Mission: Joint solidarity declaration with the Haitian peasantry https://viacampesina.org/en/haiti-mission-joint-solidarity-declaration-with-the-haitian-peasantry/ #Land,WaterandTerritories #InternationalSolidarity #HaitiPeaceMission #Peasants'Rights #SouthAmerica #Caribbean #Europe #Haiti
I'm not where I want to be, but I'm moving forward more and more every day. Many times we get frustrated because we don't see a result, but let's remember that small actions add up. Be constant and perseverance, tomorrow you will enjoy your results.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/86144114
#naked #naturism #naturist #nakedinnature #nude #nudeinnature #NakedIsNormal #nudity #nudity2023 #nudityisnatural #nudityishealthy #mexico #caribbean #caribemexicano #caribe
If you love seafood, a bit of spice and dishes that remind you of sun drenched vacations, then you'll enjoy this recipe collection!
I asked the community of home cooks and culinary pros in @Flipboard's The Recipe Exchange to share their favorite Caribbean recipes and here's a taste of what they shared: Jamaican jerk chicken, poulet aux noix (Haitian chicken with cashews), Trinidadian creamed spinach and spiced plantains.
Good afternoon. 🌅🌞😎
9 August 2023
I didn't post this morning because there was somewhere we had to be early. It's odd how much I don't like having things that I have to do or places I have to be at a certain time. But getting out on the road early in the morning like I used to do is refreshing. I saw lots of crows along the roadway and some kind of hawk perched on a power line. I did have my camera though, it's too hot to leave it in the car.
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
- Erin Hanson
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #afternoon #sunset #ocean #sea #Caribbean #freedom
Johnny cakes (fried dumplings) were originally called 'Journey cakes' because they were packed as lunches or snacks to sustain enslaved Africans in Jamaica on their long journeys. Now, they're a traditional Jamaican breakfast side dish.
Let's take a moment to appreciate The Raggae Girlz and their achievement at this tournament. 🇯🇲 👏
The team from #Jamaica has disbanded twice in the last 15 years, and had to crowdfund their way to this tournament due to lack of funding from the Jamaican Football Federation:
Despite this, they're the first Caribbean team in the modern era to reach the knockout stages of a WC.
@wwc #WWC #WWC2023 #FIFAWWC #TheReggaeGirlz #WorldCup #MastodonFC #CONCACAF #Caribbean
Voltage in the Caribbean - Electricity Supply and Power Quality Overview
https://www.sinalda.com/world-voltages/caribbean/
"The installed electric generating capacity in the Caribbean exceeds 17 Gigawatts (GW)"
So if Jamaica and the other Caribbean islands worked together to develop that 52 gigawatt #geothermal vent it could provide clean electrical power for most of the #Caribbean and part of Central America.
A blessed Independence Day to my fellow Jamaicans everywhere. 🇯🇲
We still have a long way to go.
Good morning. 🌅🌅🌅
6 August 2023
What do you know of caring people? You don't hear about them often because horrid people usually suck up the air. But caring people live among us as well. In that way, I'm lucky. My wife is the most caring person I know. The problem is that people constantly reach out to her with their problems. Some petty, some heart breaking, regardless, my wife always takes their calls. Compassion comes naturally for her, I, on the other hand have to work at it. I'm not sure if it's a lack of compassion so much as being able to sense other people's plight. Maybe, I'm just the Ying to her Yang.
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.” - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #morning #sunset #Caribbean #compasion
A Caribbean sorceress in Castlevania: Nocturne! Inject. In. My. Veins!
South African actress Thuso Mbedu (The Underground Railroad; The Woman King) is the voice actor for Annette, “a young girl who used her power and wits to escape vampire-enforced enslavement in the Caribbean, and now wields magic to stop the impending apocalyptic threat”.
Castlevania: Nocturne is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on September 28, 2023.
#Anime
#Fantasy
#Horror
#Caribbean
#BlackFediverse
#BlackMastodon
Happy Emancipation Day, Barbados 🇧🇧
For sale:
* 2 x Tickets for #CCCamp2023 (#Germany, August 15th to August 19th, 2023)
* 1 x @flow3rbadge with battery
Discounts for the #GlobalSouth, younger people (≤ 25 y.o.), and for buying all 3 items.
https://events.ccc.de/camp/2023/hub/camp23/en/board/30
Resharing/boosting greatly appreciated, @ccc@anonsys.net @CCC@social.bau-ha.us @milliways @cccfr @c3assemblies @how
#camping #camp #privacy #FreeAsInFreedom #InformationSecurity
#Africa #LatinAmerica #Caribbean #SouthAmerica #CentralAmerica #Mexico #Brazil #Argentina #Chile #Uruguay #Peru #Bolivia #Paraguay #Venezuela #Colombia
#CCC #CCCamp #CCCamp23 #ChaosCommunicationCamp #Asia #Oceania #hacking #hackers #hacker #hacklab #hackerspace #tinkering #makerspace #tinkerer #maker
A New Hampshire nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti.
NPR has the latest: https://flip.it/sS7fon
It's time for another #AskAProfessor. Ask me anything! I'm a prof. of English who teaches #DigiRhet #composition #socialmedia #sciencefiction #gaming #TTRPGs + more. Study #fandom #Caribbean #literature #SFF + #postcolonialism. Have at it!
As the effects of climate change intensify across the Caribbean, it will only lead to more extreme weather events that will in turn force Puerto Ricans out of the places they once considered "safe" and make many reconsider their life plans.
#ClimateChange #wildfire #PuertoRico #Caribbean #ExtremeWeather
Good morning. 🛳️🛳️🛳️
Third attempt, the connection on our balcony, isn’t so good.
I woke about 6:30 this morning and we were already docked in Cozumel Mexico. I had an espresso while waiting for room service and coffee, there is a machine in the suite. I think I just want a leisurely day in port, maybe just some light shopping.
I checked on Ben and Charlie yesterday, they are doing well. I may have mentioned that Ben was having a couple of minor procedures done while we’re away. He had a cyst removed from his right front paw and a dental cleaning.
#cruise #CruiseShip #Ocean #sea #Cozumel #Caribbean #ship #dogs #coffee
Devastated to find out my children like oxtail as much as I do. Grotesquely unfair.
#food #Caribbean #Jamaica #Jamaican #BlackMastodon #cooking #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter
The 1889 Emigration Pass for my Great Great Grandmother who left India to become an indentured labourer on a sugar cane plantation on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean.
Indians were recruited for plantation work after the British 1833 Slavery Abolition Act freed most slaves in the British Empire.
My ancestor stayed in Trinidad at the end of her tenure. Many others did too, giving Trinidad and Tobago its unique population mix.
#ThrowbackThursday #India #Caribbean #TrinidadTobago #Muslim
Good morning. 🌊🌊🌊
It’s a bit before sunrise, but we’re headed North and out cabin faces west today. I’m still in pajamas sitting on th balcony drinking coffee. We visit Costa Maya Mexico today.
Via Extreme Temperatures Around The World: "More about this totally unprecedented heat in the Caribbeans:
June 2023 in San Juan,Puerto Rico had an astonishing average temperature of 86.3F/30.2C,+3.1F above the 1991-2020 norm and was by far the hottest monthly in climatic history,a whopping 0.8F above the 2nd :June 2012." #heatwave #Caribbean
"I am a part of the Windrush Generation, however my parents were not on the HMT Windrush that arrived in Tilbury, Essex on 22 June 1948.
My mother (& siblings) arrived in Southampton aboard the TN Ascania on 25 June 1958, they were four of the 567 passengers on board; that is when my personal Windrush generation history really started in the UK."
#Windrush75 #Ascania65 #WindrushGeneration #Migration #Caribbean #Britain #HostileEnvironment #Newsletter #MarjoriesMusings
Tropical Storm #Bret has passed through the Lesser Antilles into the #Caribbean and is forecast to weaken over the next few days. Models currently have it passing over #Nicaragua as a remnant low, but heavy rain remains possible for landslides and flash flooding there and in nearby countries.
As of 08:00 AST Friday:
Location - 13.4°N, 63.6°W
Wind - 100 km/h
Pressure - 1001 mb
Tropical Storm #Bret may briefly tap #hurricane strength today or tomorrow but the main story is the heavy rain it is forecast to bring to some #Caribbean islands as it passes near St. Lucia tonight. It is forecast to weaken as it enters the Caribbean.
As of 11:00 AST Thursday:
Location - 13.8°N, 57.7°W
Wind - 110 km/h
Pressure - 999 mb
Next was an interesting talk by Daricia Wilkinson on online identity risk perception in the #Caribbean at #NokiaBellLabs. These populations are often overlooked in the literature, so an in-depth survey of these experiences was extremely informative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYBGZqQ3P2A (3/9) #privacy #security
“From an ancient Taíno perspective, the hurakan was an expression of the fury of Guabancex, mistress of violent churnings of wind and rain, and one of the manifestations of Atabey (the consciousness of Mother Earth). Guabancex is chaos incarnate; yet, her power was not seen as merely a destructive force of death, but part of a transformational cycle leading to new life and balance.”
https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/abuelas-ancestors-and-atabey-spirit-taino-resurgence
“Hurricane” comes from the Taíno word “Huricán”, the Carib god who represents Guavava & Coatrische, the 2 messengers of Guabancex, the Taíno deity of wind. They controlled tempests and floods, and “accounts … show that offerings were made to her idol to appease [her] wrath, in order to avert tempests [from destroying the crops] rather than to bring rain.” (fr. “An Antillean Statuette, with Notes on West Indian Religious Beliefs”, J. Walter Fewkes)
The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts tomorrow. I still remember how Hurricane Gilbert squatted over Jamaica for three nightmarish days before leaving.
Olive Senior's "Hurricane Story, 1988" connects the other hurricane stories in the "Travellers' Tales" section of her poetry collection, Gardening in the Tropics, which is an absolute must-read.
#OliveSenior
#Poetry
#CaribbeanLiterature
#Jamaica
#Caribbean
#HurricaneSeason