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”."
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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