In a special episode written by Dr. Fara Dabhoiwala, professor of history at Princeton University, we tell the story of Francis Williams, a formerly enslaved Black Jamaican who was among the leading intellectuals of the 1700s & the painting that exposed the racist conspiracy against him and the entire Black race.

Since August 1st, 1838, Jamaica, and the rest of the British West Indies, achieved emancipation. Since then, it has been ongoing debate on the necessity of commemorating the end of one of the most brutal acts of mankind.

In the mid 1970’s, the first and only-mid air bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere took place thus becoming one of the most devastating terrorist attack in Caribbean history. 

By no stretch, is the Jamaica Constabulary Force the most loved civil servant organisation. However, the organisation colonial roots, anti-blackness and the nation’s homophobia have lead to an almost century long belief that the organisation is been overrun by queer male police officers.

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