TropicalFete.com : "The Barbados Investment and Development Corporation and a number of private sector entities will be producing this three-day open air festival, dubbed “an explosion of true Caribbean culture”. On offer will be the best that the islands in cuisine, craft and fashion. It will get under way at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, November 16, with several activities taking place throughout the day and an official opening occurring later in the evening. "
Today more than ever before, the ways of the Carib are to be laughed at and ridiculed; the dirty, heathen savages who are to be shunted away and have no rights but to die far away. The colonization of Barbados is one of the darkest events and evil stories of modern history. Four centuries ago Spanish and Portuguese slavers started to kidnap, kill and drive out the thousands of peaceful Indians found on the islands the Indians called Ichiroganaum. The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese sailors knew the island only as the barbarous island, “Los Barbados” where brutality and crime could be committed with immunity. The island lay just outside the Caribbean and far away from watchful eyes. Look out for this and other books by Gary and Angela Cole…
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