On this episode, we discussed how the colonisation of Barbados by Europeans led to the rise of mosquitoes in the region as well as look at other ecological transformations that have led to many present day problems across the Caribbean.

In 1979, a swine virus outbreak occurred in Dominican Republic. Still, the situation would have far reaching changes in Haiti as a US-Canada-Mexico partnership saw 1.3 million of their Kreyol pigs been slaughtered which forever change the country

In 1975, Cuba sent troops to Angola to help them fight against an invasion by apartheid South Africa. Henry Kissinger, the US Secretary of State, did not like this so he set out to get countries to denounce Cuba’s actions. Jamaica was one of these countries.

Lady Musgrave, the then governor of Jamaica’s wife, was so angry at seeing Devon House, a mansion owned by a black man, that she authorise the building of another road, to avoid driving passed it. But although popular, the story is not true

The 1884 Hosay Massacre in Trinidad which say agents of the colonial state - the police- turn their guns on Indians taking part in the annual Hosay festival.

On August 1st, 1838, Jamaica and the rest British West Indies, achieved emancipation. But alothough freedom day come for all Black people, land throughout the colonies were not accessible for former enslaves.

Most scholarship on Caribbean chattel slavery of enslaved Africans largely covers the sugar and tobacco plantation systems. However, there was another massive industry that was built upon the enslavement of Black people - salt

On March 12, when Gairy departed the island to attend a function in New York, he allegedly left orders for the capture and murder of the NJM leadership. So on March 13, 1979, NJM would attempt an event that has never happen in Caribbean history: a successful revolution in the English - speaking Caribbean.

As Eric Gairy’s tenure continued in the 1970’s, the country was on the brink of economic and social collapse; and Gairy was beginning to face opposition from all sides. But of all the oppositions that formed, one stood out: the New Jewel Movement.

In the midst of Grenada’s independence, the country was experiencing islandwide strikes and protests due to its economic deterioration and domestic repression in the hands of its first prime minister, Eric Gairy