YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Ziggy Marley has called for all of Jamaica’s beaches to be made accessible to local people.👏🏾🔥
This comes following months of reports that some local Jamaicans were being denied access to some beaches on the island. 🇯🇲
NEW: "This hurricane has put the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique light years behind and they are expected to pull themselves up by the bootstrap on their own. This is not right, not fair and not just." - Grenada's Prime Minister Hon. Dickon Mitchell 👏🏾🇬🇩✊🏾
The lack of media coverage about the volcano erupting in St. Vincent is very telling. Like there aren't people directly affected and terrified for family and friends on the island.
Thank goodness for the Caribbean news outlets & social media, otherwise we would know nothing!
I've seen a few people tweeting about Child Q's features/hair/her school. Please do not share anything that may identify her. She has been granted anonymity for a reason.
Please protect her identity. I know are all angry (and rightly so) but please think before sharing. ❤✊🏾🙏🏾
When did Jamaican Patois rebrand to South London slang?
🫣🫣
Can we stop erasing the origins of things please?
Go and ask your granny or grandad where these words come from and tell me what they say!
South London slang my back foot!
NEW: A list of shelters in Jamaica have been released, as the country prepares for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl.
Beryl is still a Category 5 hurricane and is scheduled to reach Jamaica on Wednesday.
If you have family/friends in Jamaica please ensure they are prepared. 🙏🏾🇯🇲
You told us, you had no money for hungry school children, the homeless, people using food banks, Grenfell survivors or Windrush Scandal survivors still waiting for their compensation!
The Windrush Compensation Scheme was launched in April 2019, it is now July 2021 and 82% of Windrush victims are still waiting for compensation.
So far, 21 people have died waiting for what is rightfully theirs.
This is not good enough!
These tweets I'm seeing about Ngozi Fulani are disgusting. She has every right to wear the clothes she wears, the colours she wears and have her hair the way she has it. She also has a right to change her name if she wants to!!! KMT
In the wake of Hurricane Beryl, The Bahamas has sent hurricane relief supplies to Grenada. Read here how we're being our brother's keeper and lending a hand to our friends in the region.
EXCL: Sickle Cell 'cure' tested in the UK
I spoke to siblings who underwent a ground breaking transplant which they say has 'cured' their sickle cell disease.
The transplant is currently undergoing trials in the United Kingdom.
Please read⤵️
Heartbreaking pictures are starting to emerge from the town of Hillsborough, in
#Carriacou
,
#Grenada
. 🇬🇩💔
Earlier, the National Hurriance Centre reported the eye of
#HurricaneBeryl
making landfall in Carriacou - which is home to about 10,000 people.
📸: Alvin Cudjoe via FB
Popped into my local library and the amount of parents in there is crazy.
One mum told me it’s cheaper to take her kids to the library for the day, than stay at home because she can’t afford to have the heating and TV on in the day.
Is this really Great Britain in 2023? 💔😔
I can never quite understand racists…you tell us we are not British and when we say we are from where our parents are from you are upset and want to tell us we are British so we can go to war for you. 😱
Which one is it? 😂
Leave this little Black boy alone! 🙏🏾
A boy is interviewed about being called up to fight for Britain.
"Why am I fighting for a country I don't like?"
"I come from Jamaica, Africa innit."
I'd sort out your problems in a jiffy, given the chance.
Now is a good time to also educate yourself on the islands in the
#Caribbean
.
Over 44 million people LIVE in the region, which is made up of over 700 islands (not all inhabited).
Just like we can come on socials, we can also learn about our neighbours.🙏🏾🌎
Be kind! ❤️💛💚
One thing about
#Caribbean
people is we are ever resourceful.
I’m not sure which island this picture was taken in, but someone tied their roof down.
I love us! 🥰🙏🏾
#HurricaneBeryl
Considering the large
#Caribbean
diaspora in the UK I’m very disappointed to see NO reports on
#hurricaneberyl
on
@GMB
on the 7am news.
Not even a mention!!
But plenty of talk about Boybands.
#Caribbean
people live in Britain all year around and NOT just on Windrush Day!
My 11th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute today goes to Norman Beaton
Norman Lugard Beaton was born in 1934 in Guyana 🇬🇾 and was an actor long resident in the United Kingdom.
He became best known for his role as Desmond Ambrose in the Channel Four hit TV series Desmond's.
YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Three more
#Caribbean
countries eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission
Belize, Jamaica, and St Vincent and the Grenadines are the latest countries to receive certification from the WHO for achieving the milestone.🇧🇿🇯🇲🇻🇨
My 6th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Moira Stuart. 📺👑
Her career in radio and television spans FIVE decades.
In 1982, she became the FIRST Black woman to read the news on BBC television.
Ms Stuart was born in London to parents from Dominica & Barbados. 🇩🇲🇧🇧
Black hair products
Hardoe Bread
Plantain
Yam
Green banana
Pepper sauce
Etc.
Why are we buying them from people who don't look like us?
In every Black area these shops drain money from our community and don't respect us!
But we continue to shop there... for YEARS!!!
Happy
#WindrushDay2021
Their influence is present in EVERY part of modern British society.
I stand proud to be a descendant of these brave, strong and beautiful people.
Today, I will be thinking of the Windrush Generation and my own beloved grandparents & parents
🙏🏾🇬🇩🇻🇨
NEW: Trinidad & Tobago's PM pledges his support to Caribbean countries hit by Hurricane Beryl.
"We stand ready to offer support to Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines at this time," PM Keith Rowley said.
🙏🏾🇹🇹🙏🏾🇬🇩🙏🏾🇻🇨
YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: Sizzla demands locals have access to beaches in Jamaica 🇯🇲
The influential Reggae legend has added his voice to growing calls for access to Jamaica’s beaches to be protected. 👏🏾
My 3rd
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Darcus Howe.
Darcus Howe – born Leighton Rhett Radford Howe – was a broadcaster and racial justice campaigner and activist.
He came to England from Trinidad in 1961. 🇹🇹
50 acres…and you are NOT Jamaican.
This reeks Neo-colonialism! Who sells 50 acres of pristine land in the Caribbean to someone who has been accused of abusing Black girls.
Who signed this off?
All while the average Black Jamaican has no land in their name.
🥺💔
I'm so proud of how the community mobilised in
#Peckham
yesterday.✊🏾
I'm so proud of the abundance of Black-owned hair and beauty businesses across the UK that are operating.✊🏾
I'm so proud of how so many of us purchased/placed orders from these businesses yesterday. ✊🏾
NEW: The Scandal of Pupil Referral Units
Black parents told me they are being tricked into sending their boys to PRUs.
My investigation is on the front page of this month's issue of
@TheVoiceNews
📰✍🏾🔥
YOU MAY HAVE MISSED:
#Grenfell
Tower: Bereaved families, survivors to receive multi-million pound payout
According to reports, more than 900 people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire will share a settlement of £150 million
💚💚💚
@ronkelawal
This needs to be investigated properly. Three babies in such a short space of time and all abandoned, screams so many worrying situations. There must be someone in the community who knows who this woman/ worse girl is.
I pray she is found and can get all the help she needs.
Good morning,
I’m just getting caught up on all the latest developments and will be sharing important updates today.
What I know so far:
- At least 10 people are no confirmed to have died across the
#Caribbean
- one of those being a man swept into waters in
#Jamaica
🇯🇲
NEW: Grenada's reparations committee tells its government to begin consultations about removing King Charles III as its head of state and transition to a
#Republic
.
#Grenada
#Caribbean
Why are some of you so angry that I said to buy Black hair products from Black owned shops?
Or to buy traditional African and Caribbean food products from African and Caribbean people.
Next Year I need
@NHCarnivalLDN
to put on some workshops teaching the history/traditions of Carnival because too many people (our young people included) think its one big street party!!!
Can we have our Caribbean elders running these workshops too?
Please & tanks! ❤💛💚
GOOD NEWS: Two of my cousins are safe in Carriacou, just waiting for news on elderly relatives.
Thank you for all your kind words and prayers. 🙏🏾🇬🇩❤️✊🏾
My 8th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Annie Brewster
Ms Brewster is ONE OF the first known African-Caribbean nurses to work in Britain during the 19th century.
She was born in St Vincent & The Grenadines in 1858 and moved with her family to South London in the 1860s.🇻🇨
This story should be the talking point for so many news programmes in the UK and it is not and I hate that it has disappeared from the timeline after one day.
These women deserve justice!
And the children (if they want to) deserve to know who their father's are!!!
2,187 Kenyan women accused British soldiers of rape. The British investigated their own military & concluded that “there was no reliable evidence to support any single allegation.”
They didn’t DNA test 69 mixed-race kids. Then Kenya lost the case files
EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s first Black-owned journalism school for children will open next week 👏🏿🎉📰📺📻
Cocoa School of Journalism and Creative Arts will open on Monday 8 April.
So many people tweet negative stuff about Caribbean music/culture/traditions but can't wait to post their pics that they attend Notting Hill Carnival every August.
This is the problem in the UK, not enough education on Caribbean culture just nice pics, vibes and opinions.
NEW: A blue plaque will be unveiled on Saturday in honour of Jamaican singer Millie Small, who once lived in Shepherd's Bush, west London.🇯🇲🎉🥰
Millie Small's 1964 hit single 'My Boy Lollipop' sold over 7 million copies worldwide and went to number 2 on the UK charts.
This is why people are reluctant to speak out about racism in Britain because this is what happens to you.
You are expected to accept it and shut up or else.
Solidarity with Empress Ngozi Fulani. 🙏🏾💗😔
I'm glad to see this beach access issue is finally getting some more attention.
I have spent months of covering the same issues.
Local Jamaicans can't access beaches. 😢🇯🇲
‼️URGENT: Can everyone please report this account posted below. They are impersonating me and posting fake fundraising links for Grenada. 😡😡🤬
@eittaihton
you are a disgrace!!!
I am NOT taking any money or donations for
#Grenada
or.
#Carriacou
!!!
How dare you!!!
NEW:
#HurricaneBeryl
has been UPGRADED to a “catastrophic” Category 5 Hurricane as it heads towards Jamaica. 🙏🏾🇯🇲🥹
A hurricane warning is now in effect for
#Jamaica
and Beryl is expected to reach the island on Wednesday. 💔
My 7th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya made history after winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 2021 Oscars.
He was the FIRST Black British actor to win an acting Oscar in the show's 93-year history.
My 18th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Dr Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah was born and raised in Handsworth, Birmingham.
His parents were part of the Windrush generation and came from Barbados and Jamaica 🇧🇧🇯🇲
Happy
#WindrushDay2022
Their influence is present in EVERY part of modern British society.
I stand proud to be a descendant of these brave, strong and beautiful people.
Today, I will be thinking of the Windrush Generation and my own beloved grandparents & parents.
🙏🏾🇬🇩🇻🇨
Are any of those luxury hotel resorts that operate all over the Caribbean (but are NOT Caribbean owned) doing anything for the countries impacted by
#HurricaneBeryl
?
Please share them here, we want to see what they are doing.
Thank you!
My 12th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Diane Abbott
Diane Abbott is BOTH the FIRST Black woman elected into British Parliament and the LONGEST-SERVING Black MP. 👏🏾👏🏾
Ms Abbott was born in Paddington, west London, to Jamaican parents. 🇯🇲
(Pic: by Misan Harriman)
To every racist person in my mentions, for every racist comment you send to me, I will be sharing the details of a Black-owned UK business!!! ✊🏾🖤
Stay mad!
Today is the International Day of Remembrance of Victims of
#Slavery
and Transatlantic Slave Trade.
More than 15 million African people were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, and forcibly stolen and taken to the US, The Caribbean and South America.
NEVER FORGET!
Thank you
#Dominica
🇩🇲🙏🏾
The outpouring of love and support from other Caribbean islands has been so heartwarming.
We really have each other’s backs!!!
Jah bless the entire region!!! 🌎✊🏾🥰🇬🇩🇻🇨🇱🇨🇹🇹🇩🇲🇬🇾🇯🇲🇧🇧🇦🇬🇰🇳🇧🇸🇭🇹🇨🇺
#OneCaribbean
#DOMINICA
: Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced that Dominica will provide assistance to
#Caribbean
islands impacted by Hurricane Beryl.
#Grenada
,
#Barbados
, and
#StVincent
were the most severely affected by the storm.
NEW: Drone footage released shows the utter destruction
#HurricaneBeryl
has caused in Hillsborough, in
#Carriacou
#Grenada
🇬🇩💔🙏🏾
Hillsborough is the main town, port and shopping area on the island of Carriacou.
📸: Alvin Cudjoe on FB
So I finally made it to
#Carriacou
and just over 3 weeks on from
#HurricaneBeryl
the scenes across the island are devastating! 🇬🇩
Whole homes destroyed, some flattened with only a sofa left.
Respected businesses wiped clean from the island. 💔
📸My pic taken on 22/07/2024
In light of this news about the British Museum, let me draw your attention to Ras Seymour Mclean (RIP), who is most famous for his "liberation" of manuscripts from the British museum - including the Kebra Nagast (Glory of Kings) - for which he received a prison sentence.
NEW: The Queen's image will be replaced from the Eastern
#Caribbean
Currency notes, used in Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Anguilla and Montserrat.
🇦🇬🇬🇩🇩🇲🇻🇨🇰🇳🇱🇨🇦🇮🇲🇸
Happy
#EmancipationDay
!!!
The 1st of August marks Emancipation Day throughout the
#Caribbean
.
In 1807, trading in slaves was abolished in the British Empire but not slavery itself.
There were SEVERAL revolts across the Caribbean as those enslaved tried to break free!!
YOU MAY HAVE MISSED: A donation desk will be set up at the annual
#Grenada
Heritage Day celebrations in London, which take place on Saturday 6th July at Perth Road Playing Field, White Hart Lane, Wood Green, N22 5QJ. 🇬🇩🙏🏾🇬🇧
#hurricaneberyl
My 19th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Jamelia
Jamelia is a successful singer, actress and TV personality, who was born in Handsworth, Birmingham to Jamaican parents. 🇯🇲
@a12funny
You have used the same old racist tropes about West Indian men & recycled them for "jokes" and "likes" with no regard to the damage imagery like this does to real people inna real life!!!
Also, we are not called Caribbeans. It is West Indians.
Or Caribbean people.
Offensive!!
URGENT…My son (15) was meant to start work experience next week but has been badly let down and needs a NEW placement.
He’s interested in art and is a talented artist already.
He’s also interested in cartooning/comic books and animation.
Can anyone help?
London based.
Richard’s family are very sad to make the news public that Richard passed away last night. He had been fighting a long battle with cancer. Sending love and best wishes to all who loved him dearly …
#LegacyOfHope
NEW: A 105-YEAR-old Black British woman says wine, traditional
#Caribbean
Pot Soup and faith in God are the secrets to a long life 🙏🏿🇯🇲👑❤️
Mavis Wallace who is affectionately called Aunt May will be 106 years old in August.
NEW: Disaster relief fund information
For Grenada, Carriacou & Petite Martinique 🇬🇩
And St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) 🇻🇨
Thank you for sharing
@Blackthingsuk
❤️💛💚✊🏾
#hurricaneberyl
Thank you Esmond Joseph, who was just on
@BBCLondonNews
speaking about organising a relief effort for Carriacou & Petite Martinique.👏🏾🇬🇩🙏🏾🌎
Big up to all of the volunteers also! ❤️🇬🇩
He has also set up a Go Fund Me, which you can donate to here:
NEW: Urgent relief needed for Grenada, Carriacou & Petite Martinique. 🇬🇩🙏🏾❤️💪🏾
Drop off point Mo Better Cutz Barbers in Ladbroke Grove.
Full address below 👇🏾
#HurricaneBeryl
What is sad about these Diaspora Wars, is it shows hardly any of you have taken the time to re-educate yourself on other groups in the diaspora. You are simply generalising and repeating the same old stereotypes that our parents were taught, to keep us apart.
EXCLUSIVE: Strawberry Slavery
My investigation into claims of slavery on Strawberry farms in the UK by workers from Barbados.
⚠️TW contains images/discussions of slavery and human waste.
Read my latest report for
@TheVoiceNews
Update: Regarding yesterday’s protest in Birmingham, someone from the shop allegedly said “I don’t speak monkey” when referring to a Black protester.
The protestors chanted “lock him up” and others went into the shop to demand the man was arrested for using the racist language.
My 5th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to the incredible Professor Gus John.
Augustine John is a Grenadian-born writer and education campaigner, who moved to the UK in 1964. 🇬🇩
He started the FIRST Black Supplementary School in Birmingham with a group of colleagues in 1968.
My 24th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson sometimes known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, 🇯🇲 British-based dub poet and activist.
My 9th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Steel Pulse
Steel Pulse is a British Roots Reggae band formed in Handsworth, Birmingham, in 1975.
They were the FIRST non-Jamaican act (band members born in UK to Jamaican parents🇯🇲) to win the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
My 16th
#BlackHistoryMonth
salute goes to Bernie Grant
Bernie Grant was born in 1944, Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. 🇬🇾
He, along with Paul Boateng and Diane Abbott, was one of the FIRST persons of African descent to win election to the House of Commons.✊🏾😊
GOOD NEWS UPDATE: Jennifer Townsend, 63, has been FOUND!
The Met Police told me she was located on 3 February and their media appeal has been withdrawn.
Thank you to everyone reported on her disappearance & shared posts. 🫶🏾❤️
More footage of the protest happening right now in Peckham.
The protest follows after video footage emerged yesterday showing a Black woman being strangled inside the hair shop.
To the people that follow me on here for Black British news, I will be still sharing those stories also.
But due to my direct connection to the Caribbean my posts will be heavily focused on the aftermath of
#HurricaneBeryl
.
I hope you understand. 🙏🏾❤️
Today we remember the
#Haitian
revolution which began on 21st August 1791. The revolution was a revolt by the enslaved Africans in the French colony of Saint Domingue.
The revolution was most successfully lead by commander Toussaint L'Ouverture.🇭🇹
#Haiti
#Haitianrevolution
Good morning,
I hope everyone is ok and in good spirits.
I will be sharing a few updates today from the
#Caribbean
. 🌎
- This latest pic of Petite Martinique has been described as “Utter Devastation” by Grenadian Davon Baker. 🇬🇩😢💔👇🏾
📸: Davon Baker FB
#HurricaneBeryl
Today, marks the 43rd anniversary of the
#NewCrossFire
💔🙏🏾
I’m thinking of all the victims and survivors today.
I’m also resharing an interview I did with some of the survivors
last year.
They want a national memorial. 🙏🏾❤️
St Vincent Update:
Latest donations to arrive in St Vincent, include donations from Rastafari United Front (🇱🇨), Chor Foundation which is owned by Reggae superstar
@ChronixxMusic
(🇯🇲), Mount Kailash Rejuvenation Center, owned by Rastafari Priest Kailash (🇱🇨).