"in 2012. For the individual posts, see: United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean The Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean, and the OECS is the official title of the U.S. Ambassador to several island nations of the Caribbean. The ambassador concurrently represents the United States to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The ambassador is resident at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados and is also accredited to the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Larry Leon Palmer, a former ambassador"
"of African descent. Despite being classified as an Atlantic island, Barbados is considered to be a part of the Caribbean, where it is ranked as a leading tourist destination. Forty percent of the tourists come from the UK, with the US and Canada making up the next large groups of visitors to the island. The name ""Barbados"" is from either the Portuguese term ""Os Barbados"" or the Spanish equivalent, ""Los"" ""Barbados"", both meaning ""the bearded ones"". It is unclear whether ""bearded"" refers to the long, hanging roots of the bearded fig-tree (""Ficus citrifolia""), indigenous to the island, or to the"
"from United Kingdom on November 1 1981. It remains a member of the Commonwealth and Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state. ' is Spanish for ""ancient"" and ' is Spanish for ""bearded"". The island of Antigua was originally called ' by Arawaks and is locally known by that name today; Caribs possibly called it '. Christopher Columbus, while sailing by in 1493 may have named it Santa Maria la Antigua, after an icon in the Spanish Seville Cathedral. Antigua was first settled by archaic age hunter-gatherer Amerindians called the Ciboney. Carbon dating has established the earliest settlements started"
"allegedly bearded Caribs who once inhabited the island, or, more fancifully, to a visual impression of a beard formed by the sea foam that sprays over the outlying reefs. In 1519, a map produced by the Genoese mapmaker Visconte Maggiolo showed and named Barbados in its correct position. Furthermore, the island of Barbuda in the Leewards is very similar in name and was once named """"Las Barbudas"""" by the Spanish. It is uncertain which European nation arrived first in Barbados. One lesser-known source points to earlier revealed works predating contemporary sources indicating it could have been the Spanish. Many if"
"Española Island Española Island (Spanish: ""Isla Española"") is part of the Galápagos Islands. The English named it ""Hood Island"" after Viscount Samuel Hood. It is located in the extreme southeast of the archipelago and is considered, along with Santa Fe, one of the oldest, at approximately four million years. A popular tourist stop, Isla Española is the most southerly island in the Galápagos Archipelago. The climate is very dry, like most of the Archipelago. But due to the flatness of the island, it is the driest of these islands, with only a few inches of rain per year. It is"
"Antigua Antigua ( ), also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the West Indies. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on 1 November 1981. ""Antigua"" means ""ancient"" in Spanish after an icon in Seville Cathedral, — St. Mary of the Old Cathedral. The name ""Waladli"" comes from the indigenous inhabitants and means approximately ""our own"". The island's circumference is roughly and its area . Its"
"Remedios, Cuba Remedios (), also known as San Juan de los Remedios, is a city and municipality located from the northern coast of Cuba, in the center of the island. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in the former Las Villas province. It is now part of the province of Villa Clara. It was declared a City by Isabella II of Spain, when the Island was still a colony. Remedios is the Cradle of the Parrandas, possibly the Caribbean's largest and oldest traditional festivity. Its patrons are San Juan Bautista and the Virgin of the Buenviaje. Remedios is located about"
"sea vessels, which they used to sail the Atlantic and Caribbean. As a result, the Arawak and Carib populated much of the South American and the Caribbean islands. Their descendants live throughout South America, particularly Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia. Christopher Columbus named the island ""Antigua"" in 1493 in honour of the ""Virgin of the Old Cathedral"" () found in Seville Cathedral in southern Spain. On his 1493 voyage, honouring a vow, he named many islands after different aspects of St. Mary, including Montserrat and Guadaloupe. In 1632, a group of English colonists left St. Kitts to settle on Antigua. Sir"
"Emilio Prud'Homme, consistently uses the poetic term ""Quisqueyans"" (). The word ""Quisqueya"" derives from a native tongue of the Taino Indians and means ""Mother of the lands"" (). It is often used in songs as another name for the country. The name of the country is often shortened to ""the D.R."" () The Arawakan-speaking Taíno moved into Hispaniola from the north east region of what is now known as South America, displacing earlier inhabitants, c. AD 650. They engaged in farming and fishing and hunting and gathering. The fierce Caribs drove the Taíno to the northeastern Caribbean during much of"
"Tobago Tobago () is an autonomous island within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the mainland of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada, about off the coast of northeast Venezuela. According to the earliest English-language source cited in the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", Tobago bore a name that has become the English word ""tobacco."" The official bird of Tobago is the cocrico. Christopher Columbus first sighted Tobago in 1498. Subsequently, several powers fought over possession of the island. The original Island Carib population had to defend the island against other Amerindian tribes. Then, during the late 1500s"
"Barbados occasionally suffer droughts, while Grenada receives a great deal of rainfall. Dry seasons on Aruba and Barbados may occur even while Grenada is receiving rain. The Caribbean had been inhabited for about 7000 years by the Arawaks, Caribs, Taínos and their ancestors, who came to the Southern Caribbean on canoes from South America (primarily Venezuela). In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, European explorers and colonizers arrived. The Europeans replaced virtually the entire population of the native tribes through various means. The natives disappeared due to various reasons, including diseases brought in by Europeans to which they had"
"Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. Though geographically part of the South American continent, from a socio-economic standpoint it is often referred to as the southernmost island in the Caribbean. With an area of , it is also the fifth largest in the West Indies. The original name for the island in the Arawaks' language was ""Iëre"" which meant ""Land of the Hummingbird"". Christopher Columbus renamed it ""La Isla de la"
"Spanish), where the famous in the mid-20th century vacationed, and the south end, ""Diamante"" ('diamond' in Spanish), which is dominated by newer luxury high-rise hotels and condominiums. The name ""Acapulco"" comes from Nahuatl language ""Aca-pōl-co"", and means ""where the reeds were destroyed or washed away"". The ""de Juárez"" was added to the official name in 1885 to honor Benito Juárez, former President of Mexico (1806–1872). The seal for the city shows broken reeds or cane. The island and municipality of Capul, in the Philippines, derives its name from Acapulco; Capul was the western end of the trans-Pacific sailing route from"
"Caribbean Sea from almost every hole. Formerly known as Tobago Plantations Golf Course, the recently renamed Magdalena Grand Hotel & Golf Club was opened in 2001 and has hosted the European Seniors Tour on three occasions. Tobago Tobago () is an autonomous island within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the mainland of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada, about off the coast of northeast Venezuela. According to the earliest English-language source cited in the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", Tobago bore a name that has become the English word ""tobacco."" The official bird of Tobago is the"
"the time of the Spanish Empire, the Canaries were the main stopover for Spanish galleons on their way to the Americas, which came south to catch the prevailing northeasterly trade winds. The name ""Islas Canarias"" is likely derived from the Latin name ""Canariae Insulae"", meaning ""Islands of the Dogs"", a name that was applied only to Gran Canaria. According to the historian Pliny the Elder, the Mauretanian king Juba II named the island ""Canaria"" because it contained ""vast multitudes of dogs of very large size"". Alternatively, it is said that the original inhabitants of the island, Guanches, used to worship"
"in the Caribbean, and thus has also been titled ""The Mother Colony of the West Indies"". Saint Kitts was named ""Liamuiga"", which roughly translates as ""fertile land"", by the Kalinago who originally inhabited the island. The name is preserved via St. Kitts's western peak, Mount Liamuiga. Nevis's pre-Columbian name was ""Oualie"", meaning ""land of beautiful waters"". Christopher Columbus upon sighting what is now Nevis in 1493 gave that island the name ""San Martín"". The current name ""Nevis"" is derived from a Spanish name ""Nuestra Señora de las Nieves"". This Spanish name means Our Lady of the Snows. It is not"
"derived from the indigenous pronunciation of the Spanish exonym. Some people theorize that Spanish definitions of the word ""Chamorro"" played a role in its being used to refer to the island's indigenous inhabitants. Apart from ""Chamorro"" being a Spanish surname, in Spanish it also means ""leg of pork"", ""beardless [wheat]"", ""bald"", ""close-cropped"", or ""shorn/shaven/[hair or wool] cut close to the surface"". Circa 1670, a Catholic missionary reported that men were sporting a style in which their heads were shaven, save for a ""finger-length"" amount of hair at the crown. This hairstyle has often been portrayed in modern-day depictions of early"
"Buccan Buccan or Boucan is the native South American and Caribbean name for a wooden framework or hurdle on which meat was slow-roasted or smoked over a fire. Spaniards called the same process ""barbacoa"", later ""barbecue"". The term ""buccaneer"" for pirates or privateers, is said to be derived from buccan. In the Caribbean, seafarers used the wooden frames for smoking meat, preferably manatee. From this derived the French word ""boucane"" and hence the name ""boucanier"" for French hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). English colonists"
"and ""Pinus canariensis"" (Canary Island pine). At the time of European colonization, the Canary Islands were inhabited by native Canarians, referred to collectively as Guanches, although the natives of La Palma are more correctly known as ""Auaritas"" (See Canary Islands in pre-colonial times). The origin of these natives is unclear but they are believed to share common ancestry with the Berbers of North Africa. The Guanches had a Neolithic culture divided into several clans led by chiefs. Their name for La Palma was Benahoare. The main remnants of this culture are their cave dwellings, enigmatic petroglyphs and paved stone paths"
"nation-name given to the Yoruba in the four-hundred-year-old slave trade. Historians claim that Africans were often subject to three years of ""preparation"" for baptism, including Spanish language learning to carry out the required catechumens for baptism. Therefore, the probable year of arrival of Adeshina (Corona Gunning) to Cuba was 1830. He labored for twenty years on the giant plantation owned by Don Miguel Antonio Herrera in Nueva Paz, located in the fertile commercial crossroads between three bustling colonial cities: Trinidad, Havana, and Matanzas. He was recognized for his exceptional intelligence and extraordinary gifts and was sent to Havana to attend"
"anglicised the word ""boucanier"" to ""buccaneer"". Buccan Buccan or Boucan is the native South American and Caribbean name for a wooden framework or hurdle on which meat was slow-roasted or smoked over a fire. Spaniards called the same process ""barbacoa"", later ""barbecue"". The term ""buccaneer"" for pirates or privateers, is said to be derived from buccan. In the Caribbean, seafarers used the wooden frames for smoking meat, preferably manatee. From this derived the French word ""boucane"" and hence the name ""boucanier"" for French hunters who used such frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola (now Haiti"
"Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island country that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean. It is situated south of Grenada off the northern edge of the South American mainland, off the coast of northeastern Venezuela. It shares maritime boundaries with Barbados to the northeast, Grenada to the northwest, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west. The island of Trinidad was a Spanish colony from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1498 until Spanish governor Don José María Chacón"
"San Cristóbal Island San Cristóbal (""Chatham"") is the easternmost island in the Galápagos archipelago, as well as one of the oldest geologically. It is administratively part of San Cristóbal Canton, Ecuador. Its Spanish (and official Ecuadorian) name ""San Cristóbal"" comes from the patron saint of seafarers, St. Christopher. English speakers increasingly use that name in preference to the traditional English name of Chatham Island, derived from William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. San Cristobal Island is composed of three or four fused volcanoes, all extinct. It is home to the oldest permanent settlement of the islands and is the island"
"Dominican Republic, which were populated with the very same Taíno people. In Cuba the word jibaro is used to denote something wild or untamed, such as ""perros jibaros "" or wild dogs. The term Guajira/Guajiro, also refers to indigenous Arawak nation of the Guajira Peninsula between Venezuela and Colombia. For a small compendium of myths of this Nation please see: de Cora, Maria Manuela 1972. Kuai-Mare. Mitos Aborígenes de Venezuela. Monte Avila Editores Caracas. The Arawak, Caribe and other Meso American coast and the Amazonian cultures can be considered as part of a tenuous continuum of nations, linked by some"
"Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean The indigenous peoples of the Caribbean included the Taíno, the Island Caribs of the Lesser Antilles, and the Guanahatabey of western Cuba. Some scholars consider it important to distinguish the Taíno from the neo-Taíno nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola, and the Lucayan of the Bahamas and Jamaica. Linguistically or culturally these differences extended from various cognates or types of canoe: canoa, piragua, cayuco to distinct languages. Languages diverged even over short distances. Previously these groups often had distinctly non-Taíno deities such as the goddess Jagua, strangely enough the god Teju Jagua is a"
"""majorensis"" is derived from ""Majorata"", the ancient name for the island of Fuerteventura. The island was named by Spanish conquerors in the 15th century after the ""Majos"", the main native Guanche tribe there. One study in 2010 suggested that the species established on the island about 2,500 years ago when the island was first colonized by humans. Nikolai Zarudny and Härms described a subspecies, ""rubripersonatus"", from Baluchistan in 1902. This was described as having a deeper reddish orange skin on the head and a yellow-tipped dark bill. This has rarely been considered a valid subspecies but the intermediate pattern of"
"Gymnesian Islands The Gymnesians ( , ), or Gymnesic Islands (), is a collective name given to the two largest (and easternmost) Balearic islands, Majorca and Menorca, distinguishing them from the Pityuses (Catalan: ""Illes Pitiüses""; Spanish: ""Pitiusas""), or Pine Islands, Ibiza and Formentera. The word ""Gymnesian"" (from the Greek γυμνήτες ""gymnetes"") means ""naked"". The Ancient Greeks recruited the local inhabitants of these islands, the Talaiotics, as slingers. According to some researchers, this does not mean that they fought naked, but that they used much lighter armament than the hoplites. Later the Phoenicians referred to both Majorca and Menorca as the"
"include the ""Entierro de la Sardina"" (Burial of the Sardine) and Day of the Dead. A syncretism has occurred where Catholic saints represent traditional African deities. ""Barlovento"" is a Spanish word meaning ""windward"". This is due to the wind coming from Barlovento to the south of the region, where it brings heavy rain, then returning to the coast to cross the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean, bringing rain to the Canary Islands. Barlovento lies near the coast of Venezuela which forms the northern aspect of South America. It is located between the parallels 10 ° and 11 °, north latitude"
"Rican and is a self-referential term which Puerto Ricans commonly employ. The word is derived from the word Borinquen (the name which the native Taínos gave to the island before the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors). And that among his employees was Vidal Santiago Díaz who in 1932, purchased the barbershop from Maldonado. Maldonado died January 17, 1932, due to throat cancer in his home in Toa Baja.Regarding his death, Denis states that Maldonado was treated for throat cancer at the Presbyterian Hospital in San Juan and that Maldonado died of the illness in 1932 in said hospital, which has"
"the name combines ""San Cristóbal"", patron saint of Havana, and ""Habana"", of obscure origin, possibly derived from ""Habaguanex"", a Native American chief who controlled that area, as mentioned by Diego Velasquez in his report to the king of Spain. Shortly after the founding of Cuba's first cities, the island served as little more than a base for expeditions of exploration, conquest, and settlement of other lands. Hernán Cortés organized his expedition to Mexico from the island. Cuba, during the first years of the Discovery, provided no immediate wealth to the conquistadores, as it was poor in gold, silver and precious"
"Islands, dates from previous centuries, when sailing ships were the sole form of transportation across the Atlantic Ocean. In sailing terminology, ""windward"" means towards the source of the wind, while ""leeward"" is the opposite direction. In the West Indies, the prevailing winds, known as the trade winds, blow out of the northeast. Therefore, an island to the northwest, such as Puerto Rico, would typically be leeward of an island to the southeast, such as Antigua, and conversely, Antigua would typically be windward of Puerto Rico, but leeward of Guadeloupe and Martinique. The early Spanish colonizers called Puerto Rico and the"
"North and South America. They are usually female, but are sometimes male. They are regarded as diabolical beings, and are often femme fatale, luring men to their deaths. The Persian word ""برایم بمان"" or ""maneli"" means ""mermaid"". The Neo-Taíno nations of the Caribbean identify a mermaid called ""Aycayia"" with attributes of the goddess Jagua and the hibiscus flower of the majagua tree ""Hibiscus tiliaceus"". In modern Caribbean culture, there is a mermaid recognized as a Haitian ""vodou"" loa called ""La Sirene"" (lit. ""the mermaid""), representing wealth, beauty and the orisha Yemaya. Examples from other cultures are the jengu of Cameroon,"
"Vieille Case Vieille Case, sometimes spelled as Vielle-Case, is a village on the north coast of Dominica. The Commonwealth of Dominica in the West Indies was first inhabited by the Kalinago tribe referred to by the Europeans as Caribs. Itassi (pronounced: e-tassy) is the Kalinago name for the area in Dominica which is now known as Vieille Case. Vieille Case has an estimated population of 726. The name is a local French term for ""old house"". When Europeans first settled in the area, they lived there together with the Caribs. The current villagers are mixed descendants of the Kalinagos, the"