WebHistorically, the Caribbean's banana industry has been one of the biggest exports; however, agriculture is beginning to decline in the world economy. Now, it is the exportation of labor that is on the rise in the Caribbean. Caribbean women are migrating to developed countries for the opportunity to study particularly in nursing programs.

WebCaribbean Festival of Arts, commonly known as CARIFESTA, is an annual festival for promoting arts of the Caribbean with a different country hosting the event each year. It was started to provide a venue to "depict the life of the people of the Region, their heroes, morals, myths, traditions, beliefs, creativity and ways of expression" by fostering a sense …

WebThe term Caribbean culture summarizes the artistic, musical, literary, culinary, political and social elements that are representative of Caribbean people all over the world.. As a collection of settler nations, the contemporary Caribbean has been shaped by waves of migration that have combined to form a unique blend of customs, cuisine, and traditions …

WebThe Arawakan languages may have emerged in the Orinoco River valley. They subsequently spread widely, becoming by far the most extensive language family in South America at the time of European contact, with speakers located in various areas along the Orinoco and Amazonian rivers and their tributaries. The group that self-identified as the …

WebEast Caribbean dollar: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank: 2.70 XCD = 1.00 USD Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Grenada Montserrat Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Aruba: Aruban florin: Central Bank of Aruba: 1.79 AWG = 1.00 USD Bahamas: Bahamian dollar: Central Bank of The Bahamas: 1.00 BSD = 1.00 USD Barbados

WebPirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, a 2007 film that features green flashes as a plot point, as pirate folklore holds that it's a signal that a soul has come back from the dead. The Lightbringer Series by US fantasy author Brent Weeks mentions the green flash throughout, with characters calling it "Orholam's Wink."

WebHaiti (/ ˈ h eɪ t i / ();Haitian Creole: Ayiti; French: Haïti), officially the Republic of Haiti (Haitian Creole: Repiblik d Ayiti); French: République d'Haïti) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas and the Turks …

WebSugar plantations in the Caribbean were a major part of the economy of the islands in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Most Caribbean islands were covered with sugar cane fields and mills for refining the crop. The main source of labor, until the abolition of chattel slavery, was enslaved Africans.After the abolition of slavery, indentured laborers from India, …

WebThis is a list of largest airlines in Central America and the Caribbean. It is ranked by number of transported passengers. It is ranked by number of transported passengers. By passengers carried (millions) [ edit ]

WebThe Caribbean Sea (Spanish: Mar Caribe; French: Mer des Caraïbes; Haitian Creole: Lanmè Karayib; Jamaican Patois: Kiaribiyan Sii; Dutch: Caraïbische Zee; Papiamento: Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the …

Web"Dead Man's Chest" (also known as "Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's Chest" or "Yo, Ho, Ho (And a Bottle of Rum)") is a fictional sea song, originally from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island (1883). It was expanded in a poem, titled "Derelict" by Young E. Allison, published in the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1891.It has since been used in many …

WebThe name Tagore is the anglicised transliteration of Thakur. The original surname of the Tagores was Kushari. They were Pirali Brahmin ('Pirali’ historically carried a stigmatized and pejorative connotation) originally belonged to a village named Kush in the district named Burdwan in West Bengal.The biographer of Rabindranath Tagore, Prabhat Kumar …

WebThe Commonwealth of the Bahamas is located in the Lucayan Archipelago, the portion of the Caribbean region in the North Atlantic Ocean rather than in or bordering the Caribbean Sea.There are 700 islands and 2,400 cays in The Bahamas.There are 30 inhabited islands. Andros Island is the largest island in the Bahamas. Large island groups include Berry …

WebUn libro electrónico, [1] libro digital o ciberlibro, conocido en inglés como e-book o eBook, es la publicación electrónica o digital de un libro.Es importante diferenciar el libro electrónico o digital de uno de los dispositivos más popularizados para su lectura: el lector de libros electrónicos, o e-reader, en su versión inglesa.. Aunque a veces se define como "una …