The Caribbean by neringa soboh https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal Find facts about a specific island in the Caribbean: Population, languages, ethnicity, history(colonization, plantations, slaves/emancipation, immigration to Britain post WWII) and situation today(living conditions, discrimination) en-us 2020-03-12 12:06:38 UTC 2020-03-12 12:43:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f600.png Jamaica https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459086701 Jamaica is famous for a unique culture with an African vibe. Tobago, Reggae and Bob Marley are elements Jamaica is special  famous for. ]]> 2020-03-12 12:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459086701 Trinidad https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459087637
Capital: Port of Spain
Currency: T dollars. Trinidadian dollars
1.3 million citizens
5th largest island in the West-indies
Land of the hummingbird
32% of the population is protestant
Languages: Trinidadian English, Trinidadian Creole, Trinidadian Hindustani, Antillean French Creole, Chinese, Arabic and Spanish.
Exports: Agriculture, Natural gasses and oil.
Life expectancy: 70 years
0% of the total energy use is green
89% of the people in prison haven't had a trial.
]]> 2020-03-12 12:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459087637 Dominican Repulic https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459087688 2020-03-12 12:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459087688 Barbados https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459088321 2020-03-12 12:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459088321 Haiti https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459092396 Haiti is an island in the Caribbean. The island is located west for the Dominican republic and east for Cuba. It lives about 10 thousand people in Haiti. The biggest city and capital is Port-au-Prince.  The island was originally a French colony. It declared its self-independent in 1804. Haiti's population, unlike others Caribbean islands, have African origin. French and Haitian Creole is their official language. The value of currency is Haitian Gourde. ]]> 2020-03-12 12:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459092396 Puerto Rico https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459094292 The capital is San Juan. 
The population is around 3.94 million people. 
Puerto Rico belongs to USA, but it’s mostly Spanish people there. 
They speak Spanish and English. 
The situation there today is ok, they are now recovering from a recent hurricane. 
The first people that settled down on Puerto Rico was the Ortoiroid people between 3000 and 2000 years before Christ. 
In 1898 Puerto Rico became a part of USA. 

]]> 2020-03-12 12:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459094292 Antigua and Barbuda https://padlet.com/neringasoboh/wkijukyb0yal/wish/459096380 Capitol: Saint John’s 

Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy in Caribe. 

Population: 90 900 

People per square km: 206, 59 

Official language: English 

Religion: Protestant Christianity 

Ethnicity: 87,3% are from Africa and are ancestors of former slaves, 2,7 are Spanish Latin-Americans, the rest are white and has mixed ethnicities. 

History: Discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Settlers from the UK settled during the 1600s and ruled from 1632 to 1981 except from a few years when the French people ruled during the 1660. The slavery ended in 1834 and from 1860 Antigua and Barbuda was a British colony. From 1958 to 1962 the islands were a part of the West-Indian federation, and it became an independent state in 1981. 

 

 

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