#westindies — Public Fediverse posts

French botanist Charles Plumier, born OTD in 1646, made 3 expeditions to the #WestIndies, writing the massive "Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera" and becoming one of the most important botanists of his time https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/trinidad/background.html?s=mb #travel

Zimbabwean players also faced a similar ordeal. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/windies-players-stranded-india-t20-world-cup-fly-out-after-nine-days-fy333nfc?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #WestIndies #Zimbabwe #T20WorldCup #WestAsiaWar

Sanju Samson at Eden Gardens: A night of understated stillness https://www.allforgardening.com/1633749/sanju-samson-at-eden-gardens-a-night-of-understated-stillness/ #52ndMatch #garden #gardening #ICCMen'sT20WorldCup2026 #india #SanjuSamson #Super8Group1(X1VX3) #WestIndies

India wins the toss and elects to field first against the West Indies https://english.mathrubhumi.com/sports/cricket/india-vs-west-indies-t20-world-cup-gzk89gz6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #india #westindies #toss

https://www.europesays.com/africa/98089/ Against All Odds: Zimbabwe’s Inspirational Cricket Triumph #cricket #DarenSammy #GroupB #Logistics #Motivation #SikandarRaza #SuperEights #T20WorldCup #WestIndies #zimbabwe

https://www.europesays.com/africa/97387/ India vs South Africa Super 8s T20 World Cup 2026: Ahmedabad stadium stats, head-to-head, weather forecast and more #Africa #Ahmedabad #IndVsSA #MorneMorkel #RinkuSingh #SouthAfrica #TeamIndia #WestIndies

https://www.europesays.com/africa/?p=96052 Justin Sammons reflects on time with Proteas as he readies Zimbabwe for Super Eights #Australia #chevrons #god #GroupB #IccT20WorldCupSuperEight #IndependentMedia #india #JustinSammons #JustinT20WorldCup #MarkBoucher #oman #Proteas #SouthAfrica #SriLanka #Super8 #SuperEight #T20WorldCup #WestIndies #ZIM #zimbabwe

https://www.europesays.com/africa/95374/ Justin Sammons reflects on time with Proteas as he readies Zimbabwe for Super Eights #Australia #chevrons #god #GroupB #IccT20WorldCupSuperEight #IndependentMedia #india #JustinSammons #JustinT20WorldCup #MarkBoucher #oman #Proteas #SouthAfrica #SriLanka #Super8 #SuperEight #T20WorldCup #WestIndies #ZIM #zimbabwe

https://www.europesays.com/africa/89871/ Australia, Ireland out of cricket T20 World Cup as Zimbabwe qualify after washout #Australia #BigBashLeague #GroupB #india #ireland #Kandy #MitchellMarsh #oman #PatCummins #SouthAfrica #SriLanka #SteveSmith #TWorldCup #WestIndies #zimbabwe

#colorado #SnowBoarding #svg #WestIndies #carribean #WinterSports
https://mstdn.social/@coloradosun/116069821556021722

Romario Shepherd's hat-trick and Shimron Hetmyer's record-breaking fifty led West Indies to a 35-run victory over Scotland in the T20 World Cup opener.
#T20WorldCup #RomarioShepherd #Hetmyer #WestIndies #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/t20-world-cup-romario-shepherd-hat-trick-hetmyer-fifty-set-up-west-indies-win-101770483231340.html

So much for rules-based order and 1917 agreement over #Danish #WestIndies https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/world/americas/what-to-know-us-west-indies-greenland-history-denmark.html My take on new #Orwellian #geopolitical #dystopia here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2026/01/23/are-we-headed-toward-an-orwellian-geopolitical-dystopia/ #trump #imperialism #denmark #greenland #ukraine #russia #ukrainewar #putin #fionahill #orwell

Raising Lazarus – Kat Francois #Preview #History #Africa #WestIndies #WW1 https://tslbooks.uk/raising-lazarus-kat-francois-preview-history-africa-westindies-ww1

420 seems like an appropriate score for the #WestIndies to be bowled out for in its first innings against #NewZealand in the third and final test between #NZvWI #cricket.

Well done Devon Conway on making another double 💯 in the 3rd and final test between #NewZealand and #WestIndies in Tauranga. #Cricket #NZvWI

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Curly-tailed lizards ✧

Curly-tailed lizards (Leiocephalidae) are a family of iguanian lizards found in the West Indies, with extant species in the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. There are presently 30 known species in this family, all of which are members of th...

#WestIndies #DominicanRepublic #CaicosIslands #Leiocephalidae #Cuba #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curly-tailed_lizard

French botanist Charles Plumier, who died OTD in 1704, made 3 expeditions to the #WestIndies, wrote the massive "Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera", and became one of the most important botanists of his time https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/trinidad/background.html?s=mb #travel

Cricket has had many brilliant all-rounders, but does the game need a Shohei Ohtani? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/17/japan/cricket-shohei-ohtani/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #shoheiohtani #cricket #kapildev #imrankhan #westindies #india #pakistan #england #southafrica #australia

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ black-throated green warbler ✧

The black-throated green warbler (Setophaga virens) is a small songbird in the New World warbler family, Parulidae. It breeds in coniferous, mixed forests and sometimes cypress swamps in eastern North America and western Canada, with migration to southern Florida, Mexico, Central America, the ...

#CentralAmerica #WestIndies #NorthAmerica #SouthAmerica #Mexico #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-throated_green_warbler

https://www.europesays.com/uk/334119/ ‘No Zimbabwe, No Party’: Babar Azam Brutally Roasted After Scoring Duck In 2nd ODI Vs West Indies | Cricket #AbdullahShafique #AsiaCup #ayub #Babar #BabarAzam #BabarAzamMemes #BabarAzamTrolled #Cricket #JaydenSeales #LatestCricketNews #pakistan #PakistanVsWestIndies #SaimAyub #Sports #TimesNow #UK #UnitedKingdom #WestIndies

In the words of CLR James, this film goes “beyond a boundary” to explain how the West Indies cricket team became the dominant force in world cricket in the 1970s & 1980s. Their dominance was so complete, it’s possible to argue that they were the greatest sporting team of the twentieth century.

The West Indies fast bowlers were skilful and brutal - it was remarkable that no one was killed - and in Viv Richards the team possessed a sporting genius.

#Cricket #Sport #WestIndies #Politics #1970s

@globalvoices ⬆️ #cricket #WestIndies

Australian onslaught pushes Windies to brink of defeat https://www.byteseu.com/1170130/ #Australia #BeauWebster #JoshHazlewood #KraiggBrathwaite #MitchellStarc #PatCummins #WestIndies #WindiesCricket

The Ministry of Education has announced a significant step forward in tertiary education with the official expansion of the University of the #WestIndies (UWI) Five Islands Campus to the Federation of St Kitts and #Nevis. https://www.loopnews.com/content/uwi-five-islands-campus-expands-to-st-kitts-and-nevis/

I have a spare ticket for the #WestIndies ODI at #TheOval next Tuesday. Anyone want it?

#cricket

15-Apr-2025
A tale of two hummingbird bills


There are two species of streamertail #hummingbirds on the island of #Jamaica, #WestIndies—one with red-billed males (Trochilus polytmus) and the other with black-billed males (T. scitulus). This is a puzzling situation, as many evolutionary biologists have argued that avian #speciation is unlikely to occur on small oceanic #islands.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1080172

#science #evolution #birds #ecology

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ USS Congress ✧

USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate launched on 15 August 1799. She was one of the original six frigates of the newly formed United States Navy and, along with her sister ships, was larger and more heavily armed than standard frigates of the period. Her first duties we...

#UnitedStatesNavy #BarbaryWar #Congress #WestIndies #SouthAmerica #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Congress_(1799)

Gratien Midonet – Fô Ou Tchimbi – Decision (1989, Martinique)

As randomly chosen by survey[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 718 on The List, submitted by myself (buffyleigh).

At the beginning of this project, after we had amassed a few hundred album titles for The List and started to see where there were gaps, a few of us went searching around for gems that we maybe weren’t all that familiar with, but knew had to be included. This was one such artist I stumbled on, our only artist representing the Caribbean island of Martinique (in the French West Indies/Antilles).

I had a hard time deciding which of Midonet’s four albums to include, and still think maybe I should have picked his first, Ven en Lévé (1979). The title track of that one seems to have been an anthem of sorts for Martinique’s independence movement, and was apparently banned from French radio for 2 years. But then the second and third albums – L’Inité (1980) and Bourg La Folie (1984; a soundtrack to a since lost film by Antillean director Benjamin Jules Rosette) – as well as this one are all excellent, all highlight Midonet’s Creole lyricism, and all have their particular charms. And so, I simply went with the one that I thought would perhaps entice people to go back and check out the rest of the discography.

Anyway, if descriptions like “tropical acid folk”, “cosmic reggae jazz”, “transcendental fusion”, and “psychedelic dance” pique your interest, I would suggest you take a listen through them all. A compilation is also available, for a quick survey. Whichever you choose, it’s a good decision.

Happy listening.

• Bandcamp: Gratien Midonet – Fô Ou Tchimbi – Decision
• Discogs: Gratien Midonet – Fô Ou Tchimbi – Decision

1. The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “He flows like the big muddy, but that’s okay”, “Pour him over ice cream”, and “for a nice parfait”, following the earlier surveys that had “Well, I don’t want no Abba Zabba”/“Don’t want no Almond Joy”/“There ain’t nothing better”/“Suitable for this boy”, “Well, it’s the only thing that can pick me up”/“Better than a cup of gold”/“See only a chocolate Jesus”/“Can satisfy my soul”, and “When the weather gets rough”/“And it’s whiskey in the shade”/“It’s best to wrap your savior”/“Up in cellophane”. The second option was the winning selection, and the survey result was translated as picking an album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “him”, hidden in the word “Tchimbi”. ↩︎

#1001OtherAlbums #1980s #acidFolk #Antilles #Creole #CreoleSoul #funk #GratienMidonet #ListenToThis #Martinique #music #musicDiscovery #Musodon #WestIndies

Bridgetown, Barbados #bridgetown #barbados #caribbean #saltlife #atlanticocean #westindies #antilles #landscapephotography #photography #photographyofbluesky #iphone #bluesky #travel #traveladdicts #amateurphotographer

What a #joy to see the #WestIndies #legend #SirVivianRichards being invited to the #TeamIndia #dresssingroom to give away the #BestFielder award.

Viv Richards' wholesome moment with #ViratKohli, #RishabhPant
"What can I say to a team that's already so powerful?"
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/t20-world-cup-viv-richards-wholesome-moment-virat-kohli-rishabh-pant-what-can-i-say-to-a-team-that-already-so-powerful-101719127687664-amp.html

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2024/06/17/looking-ahead-to-the-super-eights/
#cricket #T20WiorldCup #SuperEights #Afganistan #Australia #Bangladesh #India #England #SouthAfrica #USA #WestIndies #photography #birds #insects
A look ahead to the next stage of the T20 World Cup and a large photo gallery.

“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

Le sucre ; une innovation qui donne envie :

"Dans « Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution », deux chercheuses, Maxine Berg et Pat Hudson, replacent l’esclavagisme et le système des plantations qui en est issu, au cœur du développement de l’économie britannique du XVIIIe siècle. Et elles en font un élément déterminant de la révolution industrielle et des formes particulières que prendra le capitalisme britannique jusqu’à nos jours.
[…]
Encore dépassés de peu dans la déportation des Africains par les Portugais à la fin du XVIIe siècle, les Britanniques vont représenter, entre 1751 et 1775, près de 43 % du trafic d’esclaves contre 27 % pour les Portugais et 17 % pour les Français. À la fin du siècle, ils contrôlent encore 37 % de cet hideux marché.

Ces déportations ont pour vocation de venir alimenter les immenses plantations des nombreuses îles des Antilles contrôlées par les Britanniques, comme la Jamaïque ou la Barbade, où l’on produit du café, du tabac et, surtout, du sucre. Ce dernier produit est le cœur de la machine capitaliste primitive amorcée par l’esclavage.

Le goût pour le sucre change tout

Les deux autrices expliquent ainsi comment ont été changés la consommation et les goûts des Européens pour que la production des plantations puisse bénéficier d’un immense marché toujours croissant. « À mesure que l’offre de sucre grossissait, il en allait de même de sa popularité », résument les autrices. Entre 1700 et 1783, la production de sucre dans les Antilles britanniques a quadruplé.

Ce phénomène s’est réalisé par deux canaux qui ne sont pas étrangers aux mécanismes actuels du capitalisme : l’attrait d’une consommation de luxe devenue abordable et l’addiction même du produit qui devient une « nécessité ».

L’imposition du sucre dans la consommation des Européens, y compris des plus pauvres au cours du XVIIIe siècle, est, en quelque sorte, la première victoire du marketing venant soutenir une production de masse. Elle rappelle que la demande et la consommation sous souvent les conséquences plus que les causes des choix productifs.

Mais ce que montre l’ouvrage, c’est que cette révolution culinaire destinée à assurer la profitabilité des plantations de canne fondée sur l’esclavage a eu un effet d’entraînement général sur l’économie. Elle a d’abord alimenté la demande de boissons destinées à être sucrées issues d’autres plantations esclavagistes (café, chocolat) ou du commerce asiatique comme le thé.

La folie du sucre a aussi favorisé d’autres secteurs, au Royaume-Uni même, comme la céramique, le commerce de détail, les intermédiaires financiers, les infrastructures portuaires. Tous ces secteurs ont, à leur tour, alimenté le reste de l’économie, notamment la production de métal et de minerais.

Ce que montre Maxine Berg et Pat Hudson, c’est l’effet d’entraînement de cette industrie à base esclavagiste sur la dynamique capitaliste et industrielle d’ensemble au Royaume-Uni. Cette dynamique n’est pas toujours immédiatement visible. Mais les autrices soulignent par exemple combien cette révolution dans la consommation a été un élément clé de la « révolution industrieuse », un changement notable de rapport au travail qui a permis la révolution industrielle.

Ainsi, notent-elles, « le désir pour une nouvelle variété de marchandises a amené des changements graduels dans les comportements des ménages ordinaires d’Europe occidentale ». Progressivement, pour s’offrir le luxe devenu atteignable du sucre, l’économie de subsistance va être abandonnée pour recourir au travail salarié. On va accepter de travailler davantage et plus dur pour acquérir ces biens devenus, selon les témoignages mêmes de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, des besoins essentiels.

En parallèle, le système de la plantation jette les bases de la future organisation capitaliste du travail et de la production. Le secteur sucrier à l’époque est une « synthèse du champ et de l’usine », un véritable « agro-business » qui ne ressemble « à rien de connu à l’époque en Europe ». Le jus de canne à sucre doit en effet être traité rapidement après la moisson pour produire des cristaux de sucre et de la mélasse qui, distillés, produit le rhum, un produit qui va vite devenir en vogue également sur les marchés européens.

Productivité, innovation, discipline
La plantation est donc un système intégré qui nécessite des innovations majeures pour l’époque afin de pouvoir organiser et améliorer la production. Le système de comptabilité mis en place va ainsi permettre de mieux calculer les rendements et, partant, de rogner sur les « besoins » des esclaves en termes de nourriture, de logements ou de vêtements pour en tirer le plus de valeur possible.

Ces pratiques comptables vont jouer un rôle déterminant dans la naissance du capitalisme et dans son évolution. « La comptabilité standardisée a rendu possible la séparation de la propriété et de la gestion, une séparation qui est encore rare dans les entreprises britanniques et européennes plus d’un siècle plus tard », soulignent les autrices.

La comptabilité permet aussi de renforcer le contrôle de la force de travail et son intensification. Le système de la plantation confirme le constat que Marx fera un siècle plus tard : l’augmentation de la productivité va de pair avec la dégradation des conditions de travail. « Les régimes de travail vont empirer à mesure que s’améliorent le management et les technologies », constate l’ouvrage. Progressivement, les plantations des Antilles britanniques du XVIIIe siècle ressemblent aux grandes usines du siècle suivant, avec, en plus, la violence du régime esclavagiste où on fouette, on bat et on pend les réfractaires.
[…]
Les ports du commerce atlantique, principalement Liverpool et Glasgow, développent alors un hinterland qui fournit les biens manufacturés dont le commerce triangulaire fondé sur l’esclavage a besoin, notamment les textiles et les produits métalliques. La géographie économique du Royaume-Uni en est alors profondément modifiée.
[…]
L’argent de la métropole est dirigé vers les besoins des plantations, puis revient vers l’Angleterre et l’Écosse pour financer les secteurs dynamisés par le commerce triangulaire, mais aussi pour financer l’État. Les autrices insistent particulièrement sur le fait que la demande de dette publique de la part des planteurs a permis de structurer de nouveaux instruments qui fondent encore la finance d’aujourd’hui et qui ont permis non seulement l’indispensable soutien étatique au développement capitaliste britannique, mais aussi le financement des guerres coloniales qui ont renforcé le système des plantations."

Romaric Godin : https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/140224/aux-sources-du-capitalisme-l-esclavage

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#histoire #esclavage #agrobusiness #Angleterre #RoyaumeUni #GrandeBretagne #Mediapart #Bristol #Liverpool #Londres #extractivisme #accaparement #citation #citations #plantations #Antilles #WestIndies #Caraïbes #carribbean #racialisation #racismeSystémique #capitalisme #suprémacismeBlanc #Découverte #Rencontre #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #Caraïbes #Caraïbe #NouveauMonde #Jamaïque #Cuba #Guadeloupe #Martinique #Hispaniola #Haïti #SaintDomingue #PortoRico #Amérique #histoire #esclavage #agrobusiness #agriculture #Nantes #Bordeaux #lectureDécoloniale #définitionDécoloniale #sucré #bonbons #gastronomie #desserts

World’s first #ReparatoryJustice master’s [degree] launches in #Glasgow and #WestIndies

Partnership between Glasgow University and University of the West Indies was established as part of a reparative justice programme

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/oct/08/worlds-first-reparatory-justice-masters-launches-in-glasgow-and-west-indies
#Colonialism #Deconlonialism

Several Canadian #banks — #ImperialBankOfCommerce & #BankOfNovaScotia (#Scotiabank ) — have #origins in the #WestIndies , where their forerunners established themselves early in the 19th century. According to Cooper, the Bank of Nova Scotia exists “in the shadow of West Indian #slavery .”

#Canadian sugar was built upon #violence , including upon #enslaved & #indentured #labour .

https://theconversation.com/amp/uncovering-the-violent-history-of-the-canadian-sugar-industry-200054

#exploitation #KKKanada #POC #BIPOC #Canada #colonialism #capitalism #history #UglyTruths

Several Canadian #banks — #ImperialBankOfCommerce & #BankOfNovaScotia (#Scotiabank ) — have #origins in the #WestIndies , where their forerunners established themselves early in the 19th century. According to Cooper, the Bank of Nova Scotia exists “in the shadow of West Indian #slavery .”

#Canadian sugar was built upon #violence , including upon #enslaved & #indentured #labour .

https://theconversation.com/amp/uncovering-the-violent-history-of-the-canadian-sugar-industry-200054

#exploitation #KKKanada #POC #BIPOC #Canada #colonialism #capitalism #history #UglyTruths

Several Canadian #banks — #ImperialBankOfCommerce & #BankOfNovaScotia (#Scotiabank ) — have #origins in the #WestIndies , where their forerunners established themselves early in the 19th century. According to Cooper, the Bank of Nova Scotia exists “in the shadow of West Indian #slavery .”

#Canadian sugar was built upon #violence , including upon #enslaved & #indentured #labour .

https://theconversation.com/amp/uncovering-the-violent-history-of-the-canadian-sugar-industry-200054

#exploitation #KKKanada #POC #BIPOC #Canada #colonialism #capitalism #history #UglyTruths

Several Canadian #banks — #ImperialBankOfCommerce & #BankOfNovaScotia (#Scotiabank ) — have #origins in the #WestIndies , where their forerunners established themselves early in the 19th century. According to Cooper, the Bank of Nova Scotia exists “in the shadow of West Indian #slavery .”

#Canadian sugar was built upon #violence , including upon #enslaved & #indentured #labour .

https://theconversation.com/amp/uncovering-the-violent-history-of-the-canadian-sugar-industry-200054

#exploitation #KKKanada #POC #BIPOC #Canada #colonialism #capitalism #history #UglyTruths