Due to certain events in the region, the 1970’s saw thousands of West Indians emigrating or seeking refugee status in the United States. But Haitians would soon realise that the U.S. immigration & refugee system did not work the same when it comes to them.

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

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.