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Hill & Gully riddim slaps. Big up DiGenius every time!

Nah big up Ms Bain who taught me in grade 5. That woman was mean as hell (and the reason i mispronounce ‘archipelago’ but she knew her stuff man!

In maybe 100 years or so, with rising sea levels they will disappear 😢

Including the white one da doh bathing in the people dem countries.

@_KaiiB_ Who’s your mom? 👀 (you can DM)

@ChendGolden YOU WENT HINDSEY? Then you definitely know my mom! Oh wow.. but yeah ordinary for real cause same school🤣

I’m intrigued to know which ordinary primary school lool.. just seeing it like this got me so intrigued that I’d start referring to mine as so 🤣 love it

@_KaiiB_ I also went to Convent for literally a day before hurricane Ivan then transferred to Bishops College in Carriacou.

@_KaiiB_ Hindsey

@_KaiiB_ I say ordinary because it wasn’t private.

But you also need to be prepared for challenge, question and disagreement. In this “me me me” generation, I’ve noticed everyone wants to be heard but no one wants to hear.

Your parents as they get older

So, if you went to school in Grenada (and paid attention) I’m pretty sure you’d know a thing or two about quite a lot of the other islands.

We learned current things (at the time) such as capital cities and prime ministers but also we were taught about indigenous languages/ people, main exports, flags etc I also don’t recall learning a great deal about European history other than their colonial influence on Grenada.

Ngl I went to an ordinary public school in Grenada and learned about Caribbean history. What I will say, is that they taught us mainly about the English speaking Caribbean islands (Grades 4-6 and Form 1/2). Might’ve just been my experience though.

I know right now English is being seen as plain and basic but you DO know that this is also just the product of colonialism right?

I can’t stand people who don’t try stuff in general. Picky eaters are my least favourite type of people.

Me too! I’m fed up of the AI slop on my TL. Much rather see fellow island folk

The accent is so distinctive! 💛

Fifteen Kalinago chiefs walked into a meeting with the British and French empires in 1660 and walked out with both sides agreeing the island was theirs. Their descendants still live there today. You just watched some of them dance. The Kalinago are the only native group in the Eastern Caribbean still around from before Columbus. Almost every other native group in the region was wiped out by European disease, slavery, displacement, or war. The Kalinago survived because they made Dominica too expensive to conquer. They had the land on their side. Dominica is mountainous and wild, full of dense rainforest. Kalinago warriors raided European ships and ambushed anyone who tried to land on the coast. After nearly two centuries of failed invasions, both empires finally gave up. They signed a treaty making Dominica officially Kalinago land. That deal lasted more than a hundred years. When Britain finally took the island in 1763, the Kalinago kept the rough east coast. They are still there. In 1903, Britain officially marked out the 3,700-acre territory, roughly six square miles. About 3,000 Kalinago live there today in eight small villages. The whole area runs by Kalinago rules. The land is shared and can only be sold to someone of Kalinago descent. Every five years, the Kalinago vote for their own chief and a six-member council to run the territory. Police based in Salybia keep order. They send their own representative to Dominica's parliament. Two Kalinago women lead Dominica today. Sylvanie Burton became the country's first female and first Kalinago president in October 2023. A year later, Anette Sanford was sworn in as the first female Kalinago chief in almost 400 years. The Kalinago's main traditional dance group is called Karifuna. The traditions they keep alive survived Spanish ships, French plantations, British soldiers, and Hurricane Maria, the 2017 storm that ripped the roof off almost every house in the territory.

The fact that Alkaline started Gyal Good like that is actually quite alarming. I’ve never actually given it thought until now.

@Reenie___ Yeaaa exactly.

@ChendGolden This is how certain communities in London own multiple properties . They’ll buy the property next door and knock through walls. Everyone gets a corner. Community living of this kind can benefit everyone if done right.

I “moved out” at 27 after investing in property with family to raise capital and I’d move right back to be financially free. I’m not competing with the internet. You people are forever watching the next man.