The Turks and Caicos Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom consisting of thirty islands. The thirty islands total 430 square kilometers. The capital of the islands is Cockburn Town which is located on Grand Turk Island. The total population of Turks and Caicos is approx. 36,000. Approximately 22,500 of the 36,000 people live on Providenciales in the Caicos Islands. (Wikipedia, Turks and Caicos Islands) (Kids.com)
Turks and Caicos was first inhabited around 700 AD by people called Amerindians. Amerindians came from Hispaniola (Haiti and The Dominican Republic). Approximately 300 years after it was thought that the inhabitants created their own culture. Explorers found that this was true by looking at the inhabitants own unique
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Misick was in the news, in 2008 he was accused of using the public funds for his own personal use. He was highly suspicious because he was sending his wife on extravagant shopping sprees, let her use the county’s jet for her own personal travels and they spent on automotive accommodations. In April 2008 he was also accused of raping an American woman visiting Puerto Rico. When the woman reported that it happened on March 27th to the local police, the local police then notified the FBI immediately. After these allegations went public, on 10th April Mr. Misick videotaped a statement denying all outrageous allegations and saying he was being falsely accused. Among all the other allegations Mr. Misick was being accused of, he was also being accused of building a multi-million dollar fortune since being elected in 2003 for the first time, officials believed that he was selling off Crowned land to fund his current investments.. At this point in time Mr. Misick decided to step down as party leader on February 28th2009 and he also decided to Step down as Premier/ Chief Minister on March 31st 2009. While the investigations were underway Governor Gordon Wetherell suspended self-government in the islands on August 16th 2009(Incoperated) (Wikipedia, Michael Misick) …show more content…
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Firstly, the Caribbean smuggling was viewed as necessary and positive in the late eighteenth century. According to William Taggart, a British sailor traveling to testify at his smuggling trial in April 1760, the illegal transportation of goods from the Spanish port of Monte Christi led to general prosperity in the area, as there were only 100 relatively poor families and that the governor had full knowledge of this and demanded a tax of one silver Spanish coin. Taggart mi...
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Milanich, Jerald T. and Susan Milbrath., ed. First Encounters: Spanish Exploration in the Caribbean and the United States1492-1570. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 1989.
Many people would argue that Columbus had discoverd the west Indies this is because most of the historians in the 1400's, which were Europeans therefore they writ biased text glorify their country where by they wanted to avoid any form of negative conspiracy attached to it. Even though we have read the Europeans point of view, we are still left in the dark as to hearing both sides of the story. We have been shown only one side of the coin, the arawaks were illiterate and therefore is was most unlikely to keep anyform of records concerning the evens that had taken place. As outsides to the real facts, we have little knowledge of the arawaks and what had really happened.
The Pandora’s box of information that I have discovered about Puerto Rico under early U.S rule provide some fascinating details on the background of contradictions that characterize debates on the political, economic and social issues concerning the island. Since its invasion in 1898, the United States has shaped the policies of the island according to its own discretion in spite of the people of Puerto Rico. The country did not have time to shed the skin of Spanish colonial rule before the United States set foot on the island to add its own layer of imperial legacy. The island was taken as a compromise to end the Spanish American War. How the newly acquired territory would take shape, and some of the local and international influences that might have contributed to the evolution of the Puerto Rican political, social and economical structure are some of the issues that I hope to address. As is customary an attempted commentary of this sort cannot be complete without the subject of identity, after all, this issue seems to be at the core of the status of the island.
When Columbus crossed the Atlantic with his crew of Spaniards, he first came to islands in the Bahamas and then Cuba before landing on the island of Hispaniola. But this was the place that really got them excited for several reasons. First, his journal is full of descriptions indicating how beautiful was this island paradise he had discovered, with high-forested mountains and large river valleys. Furthermore, the inhabitants were very peaceful and docile, and even though they were very generous and cooperative, the Europeans quickly realized that with their lack of iron weapons and European technology, the Indians could easily be conquered and put to work for them. But, ...
The pioneering exploration of the Caribbean Islands, by Christopher Columbus led to the first European contact of the Taino Indians in that region. This encounter resulted in the Taino Indians being traded, yet opened the South Atlantic and Caribbean for future exploration and eventual colonization.
Knowledge of the native peoples in Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean, prior to the colonial era derives from the accounts of contemporary Spanish writers and from archaeological examinations as oppose to written records since there were no evidence of them. The earliest knowledge of individuals immigrating to Cuba dates back to around 4200 BC. After arriving in four waves of migration from continental America, three different indigenous groups inhabited the island: the Tainos, the Ciboneys, and the Guanajatabeyes.
Grand Turk is an island located 550 miles southeast of Miami, Florida. Before the island was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1942, it was home to two different tribes of Indians: the Tainos and Lucayans. The island of Grand Turk is now a member of the British overseas territory the Turks and Caicos Islands. Grand Turk is the capital of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Because it is not a part of the U.S. or a U.S. territory, a passport is required to enter Grand Turk and return to the U.S.
Throughout the expanse of the whole entire planet, a select few places are able to compete with the sheer natural beauty of the tropical islands that litter the turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea. From Puerto Rico to Jamaica, this exotic paradise south of the United States, that has been bloodied by battle, has since become a vacation hotspot open to tourists from across the globe. Meanwhile, many American Corporations have been actively depleting many of the natural resources found in these areas which has created a vast dependence in these monopolies’ productivity. The presence these of foreign entities in the Caribbean has resulted in a staggering amount of poverty from the native people’s inability to capitalize on the abundance of resources that surrounds them, which lead to many brilliant authors such as, David Foster Wallace, Joan Didion, and Nathan Jessen, to suggest that the United States has too much influence in the area. Nonetheless, many people fail to realize that the Caribbean Islands have been under the indirect influence of the United States for quite some time. The empire that the United States established in the Nineteenth Century in these surrounding island territories will continue to exist for the duration of their existence.
Langley, Lester D. The United States and the Caribbean in the Twentieth Century; The University of Georgia Press (Athens, 1982).
The history of Trinidad began far before Columbus landed on the island. Before any Spanish lived on the island, it was inhabited by two indigenous tribes. The Arawaks lived in the southern region of the island. The Caribs, who were regarded as a much more violent and vicious than the Arawaks, lived in the north. The Caribs are described as “warlike” people and for this reason they were able to withstand more of chance fighting the Spanish conquerors, though not enough.
Scholars have debated not only the nature of Iberian colonialism, but also the impact that independence had on the people of Latin America. Historian Jaime E. Rodriguez said that, “The emancipation of [Latin America] did not merely consist of separation from the mother country, as in the case of the United States. It also destroyed a vast and responsive social, political, and economic system that functioned well despite many imperfections.” I believe that when independence emerged in Latin America, it was a positive force. However, as time progressed, it indeed does cause conflict.
In 1498, Christopher Columbus accidently found his way to Venezuela, thinking it was an island, and claimed it for Spain. At the time, only Carib, Chibcha, and Arawak were the only people living on the beaches there before Columbus found his way there. Only a little while later though, Alonso De Ojeda came along and found his way to Lake Maracaibo and decided to officially name Venezuela what it is today, which means Little Venice.