The Barbados Advocate: "I was flying south from Canada for my first visit to Barbados and sat beside a member of the Barbadian Diaspora returning to the island for a series of cricket matches. While instructing me on the strategic play of this most West Indian of sports, he also noted that he was really a Canadian now, after some 34 years in Toronto. Then, under the left wing tip of the aircraft, the island appeared; my friend teared up for a fleeting second and said, “It always gets me when I see the island again”."
I hate to look at the Barbados tourists site that give the history of Barbados.The ones that talk of Columbus discovering these islands and the other foolish tales that the Bob Marley and Burning Spear called 'mis-education'.I agree with them as a matter of fact Burning Spear referred to Christopher Columbus as a 'damn blasted liar'.Thank god for Rastafari.One of the funniest stories is the one of the bearded fig tree and the name Los Barbados which was supposed to mean 'the bearded one'.In the words of Gary Cole from the book reflections;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 island the Indians called Ichirouganaim.The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and sailors knew the island as the barbarous island,"Los Barb…
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