Hurricanes and islands are a bad mix.

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♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-10-10 18:58:00 GMT

The Great Hurricane of 1780 killed 20,000-30,000 in the #Caribbean OTD in 1780 cromwell-intl.com/travel/trini… #travel #Trinidad #history

Where both mother and daughter go workin' for the Yankee dollllllllaaaaaaaar.
#RumAndCocaCola

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♲ Bob the Traveler - 2024-08-18 01:58:00 GMT

Patrick Manning, born OTD in 1946, was the 4th and 6th Prime Minister of #Trinidad and Tobago https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/trinidad/background.html?s=mb #travel #history

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/growing-consensus-trinidad-and-tobago-recognizes-state-of-palestine/
#palestine #gaza #trinidad #tobago

The weekend is here!

Maybe wet in some places - like here 🎯 NYC is set for a 'monsoon'-like Saturday morning, like a few weeks ago.

Thinking of deluges, one of the more memorable for me was on Plaza Mayor, in Trinidad, Cuba. (#myphoto)

Plaza Mayor is an historical treasure (from Colonial days), and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
But outside the tourist attractions, life, as most places on the island, is far less luxurious.

Here is a back-street in Trinidad, not far from the plaza, where water flowed rapidly down the cobblestone, into a nether-land.

Once living comfortably on #GooglePlus (collection), there is a good-sized collection of images - and a few videos - from Cuba, from Havana to countryside, music, and Hemingway's home in between, (Still more to post, actually) But thinking of wet days now, and...

Photography of Cuba

Good weekend! Stay home, New Yorkers, A great Saturday to sleep in, hopefully on a high floor. :))

#Fenfotos #Cuba #photography #Trinidad #Cuba #Cienfuegos #Kuba #rain #PlazaMayor #UNESCO

and these?.

#history #america #canada #usa #belice #costarica #elsalvador #guatemala #honduras #nicaragua #panamá #méxico #argentina #bolivia #brasil #chile #colombia #ecuador #guyana #paraguay #perú #surinam #trinidadytobago #trinidad #tobago #uruguay #venezuela #guayanafrancesa #guayana #malvinas #georgiasdelsur #georgias #sandwichdelsur #sandwich #aruba #curazao #bonaire ">

The fact that a sovereign nation can't trade with its closest neighbor without Washington's permission is more proof that the US is a global empire.

#Venezuela #Trinidad #US #Sanctions #Imperialism

It was early 2016, and I had gone to #Trinidad to report on Trinidadian #ISIS foreign fighters for The Atlantic. Between 2013 and 2016, some 240 Trinis travelled to #Syria and Iraq to join the caliphate, making Trinidad one of the world’s biggest exporters, per capita, of ISIS foreign fighters. I wanted to know how a country famed for #calypso, rum and carnival could incubate something so profoundly unTrinidadian.

https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-jihadists-of-the-caribbean/ #is #islamism #war #corruption #religion #violence #iraq