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  1. Guyana Urges ICJ to Rule in Its Favour in Border Dispute With Venezuela

    HAGUE – Guyana Friday reiterated its position that the disputed Essequibo Region is part of its territory and…
    #Conflict #Conflicts #War #barbados #Caribbeandiaspora #caribbeannews #Cuba #grenada #Jamaica #Miami #monthlynewsmagazine #sports #St.Kitts #trinidad #Venezuela
    europesays.com/2981798/

  2. Meanwhile China for the last decade has negotiated simple trade and financial deals that actually materially supported infrastructure that Barbados' citizens actually wanted.

    The Prime Minister describes China offering infrastructure loans with 1-5% interest rates and no other geopolitical bullying. Just straight forward trade deals.

    #MiaMottley #Barbados #trevornoah #US #China #GeoPol

  3. Excellent Trevor Noah interview with Mia Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados.

    Mia presents a very real comparison of what it's like interacting with Americans and the Chinese in geopolitics.

    The US in the early 2000s would demand things like exclusion from war crimes punishment and then if small countries like Babados disagreed, immediately threaten to pull US military aid & protection from the region.

    youtu.be/sFFmGqCxZvg

    #MiaMottley #Barbados #trevornoah #US #China #GeoPol

  4. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati seized a shipment on Dec. 4 containing 30,000 #Tramadol tablets. The shipment was arriving from #Barbados and destined for an address on St. Kitts - #Nevis Island. hstoday.us/subject-matter-area

  5. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati seized a shipment on Dec. 4 containing 30,000 #Tramadol tablets. The shipment was arriving from #Barbados and destined for an address on St. Kitts - #Nevis Island. hstoday.us/subject-matter-area

  6. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati seized a shipment on Dec. 4 containing 30,000 #Tramadol tablets. The shipment was arriving from #Barbados and destined for an address on St. Kitts - #Nevis Island. hstoday.us/subject-matter-area

  7. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati seized a shipment on Dec. 4 containing 30,000 #Tramadol tablets. The shipment was arriving from #Barbados and destined for an address on St. Kitts - #Nevis Island. hstoday.us/subject-matter-area

  8. CW: Chattel slavery for sugar and rum 🧶

    In 1776, Scotsman Adam "Smith noted that the British West Indian sugar plantations were so profitable they their returns from rum exports, a byproduct of sugar production, paid for the entire overhead expenses of a sugar plantation. As far as Smith was concerned, this was an achievement without parallel in eighteen-century British imperial agriculture."

    (excerpt from Seymour Drescher’s book "The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation")

    #AdamSmith #economics #economy #slavery #chattelSlavery #WestIndies #agriBusiness #agriculture #sugar #Caribbean #lineofColor #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #rum #accumulation #transatlantic #trade #slaveTrade #deportation #economics #BritishEmpire #BritishIsles #Tobago #Jamaica #Barbados

  9. Great to be part of the discussion at ODI Global think tank's book launch and film screening on small island developing states faced with the reality of a #climate crisis. Thanks Emily Wilkinson, Jack Corbett, Avinash Persaud Matthew Bishop (Dr) for insights on a subject that is all too often overlooked.
    #ClimateBlueprint #SmallIslands #SIDS #Barbados #Dominica #ClimateJustice #ClimateResilience

  10. Barbados: A diver’s dream destination 🏝️🐠
    Explore stunning reefs, WWII wrecks, and swim alongside turtles. 🐢✨
    Get the most out of your trip with these essential dive tips! 👇
    🔗 thescubanews.com/2025/02/27/he

    #ScubaDiving #Barbados #DiveTips #OceanAdventure

  11. RT by @EIB: Thank you @NadiaCalvino! This is the first ever debt conversion in our region! Very happy to be partnering with @EIB, @EU_Partnerships in support of #Barbados to boost climate resilience. When #MDBs work together, we can make a difference!

    [2024-07-26 09:55 UTC]

  12. RT by @EIB: Thank you @NadiaCalvino! This is the first ever debt conversion in our region! Very happy to be partnering with @EIB, @EU_Partnerships in support of #Barbados to boost climate resilience. When #MDBs work together, we can make a difference!

    [2024-07-26 09:55 UTC]

  13. “With its rapidly increasing population, religious and royal wars, Irish ethnic cleansing, and fear of rising crime, Britain excelled among the European imperial powers in shipping its people into bondage in distant lands. An original inspiration had flowed from small-scale shipments of Portuguese children to its Asian colonies before the Dutch supplanted the Portuguese as the world's premier long-range shippers. Vagrant minors, kidnapped persons, convicts, and indentured servants from the British Isles might labor under differing names in law and for longer or shorter terms in the Americas, but the harshness of their lives dictated that they be, in the worlds of Daniel Defoe, "more properly called slaves." First in Barbados, then in Jamaica, then in North America, notably in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, bound Britons, Scots, and Irish furnished a crucial workforce in the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1618, the City of London and the Virginia Company forged an agreement to transport vagrant children. London would pay £5 per head to the company for shipment on the Duty, hence the children's sobriquet "Duty boys." Supposedly bound for apprenticeship, these homeless children—a quarter of them girls—were then sold into field labor for twenty pounds of tobacco each.”

    ― Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People

    #colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #England #Britain #GreatBritain #UK #USA #Atlantic #deportation #NellIrvinPainter #quotes #citation #history #slavery #enslavement #EuropeanCulture #Barbados #Jamaica #agriculture #Virginia #Maryland #Pennsylvania #colonies #serfs #slaves #adultDomination #adultism #children #vagrancy #WestIndies #Caribbean #DutyBoys #homeless