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General Discussion / Re: ASSASSINATION PLOT THREAD
« on: November 28, 2011, 09:54:29 PM »
OK forget about that lets move on, we had a Guinness and puncheon with red bull and miss spoke .

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General Discussion / Trinidad : Guns ,drugs and secrets
« on: November 27, 2011, 07:38:03 PM »
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/4od

I got this email and just wanted to share with my Trinbagonian people

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General Discussion / Re: SAT BLOCKED BLACK CHILDREN
« on: November 14, 2011, 09:59:44 PM »
I was speakiing to this guy ,he said because of the caste system MAHARAJ is the head of the Hindu leading players then the Singhs and it go on and on ,he was saying that is why tim nor no other Hindu person from the PP party could oppose him .

I dont know if this is true anybody with more info on the caste system .

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General Discussion / untouchable sweeper pt 1
« on: November 14, 2011, 09:22:21 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVPqgeWPTww

Doh watch if you goin and eat food ,wat a life phew .

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Heirs of African-American freedom fighters revisit their roots
By Nazma Muller - August 5th 2011 7:09 PM


‘Merikin’ descendants tell story of Company villages Almost every saturday afternoon these days, a small group gathers at the home of Augustus lewis in Gopaul lands, Marabella. They seem like ordinary folks, and they are, to some extent, but the reason for their gathering is quite unique. They are the  read more…

‘Merikin’ descendants tell story of Company villages
 
Almost every saturday afternoon these days, a small group gathers at the home of Augustus lewis in Gopaul lands, Marabella.
 
They seem like ordinary folks, and they are, to some extent, but the reason for their gathering is quite unique.
 
They are the directors of The Merikin Project, and they carry the genes of five companies of African-American soldiers who were brought here by the British from the United States in the early 1800s.
 
These men, who called themselves Merikins, earned their freedom from slavery in the US by escaping from their slave masters and fighting for the British in the 1812-1814 war. They and their families settled in what is known as the Company Villages in southeast Trinidad, along the Moruga road.
 
Today, the directors of The Merikin Project are one step closer to their mission to commemorate and create awareness of their ancestors, as they prepare for the first-ever exhibition on the Merikins at the National Museum in Port of Spain, which will run from August 17 to September 30.
 
The long-term goal of the non-profit organization, however, is to create a heritage site that will improve life chances for the residents of the Company Villages.
 
After a meeting between UNESCO officials and the directors, they decided to create a non-profit organization called the Foundation of the Devil’s Woodyard Volcano Heritage Sites Company of T&T. They hope to receive 97 acres of land on which they can provide “sustainable development and advancement” of the villages and Merikin descendants.
 
Such a heritage site would be a tourism attraction that would also protect and maintain endemic and native species of flora and fauna, while showcasing the traditional agricultural practices handed down through generations of Merikins.
 
Some of the surnames of the original Company soldiers include Ayres, Cooper, McNish, McLeod, Samberry, Loney, Elliot, Fortune and Dunmore.
 
Merikin descendants recall enchanting childhoods spent in the villages, where everyone knew everyone, and life was tough but sweet.
 
Fruit trees were abundant, and their parents worked hard to mind their many children. One of the directors, Akilah Jaramogi, drew on her childhood experiences in Sixth Company Village, Moruga Road, in her lifelong struggle as an eco-warrior and head of the Fondes Amandes Community Re-forestation Project. It was from her grandmother that she learned traditional African ways of planting and harvesting crops, especially ground provisions, which were brought by the original settlers who hailed from the southern states of America.
 
They were part of a great yet little-known AfricanAmerican emigration to the West Indies.
 
The Merikins of the Company Villages had been the Corps of Colonial Marines. They were garrisoned afterthe war in Bermuda for 14 months, then disbanded in Trinidad in 1816 to form a new free black class of small landowners.
 
According to research by British anthropologist John McNish Weiss, these former slaves became a disciplined military unit.
 
Recruited mainly from the states of Maryland and Virginia and later, Georgia, they were highly praised for their courage and discipline.
 
“During the War of 1812, Black aspirations and White fears gave the British a special weapon in fighting the Americans,” writes McNish Weiss. “Concerned southern slaveholders, recollecting Black success in Haiti and viewing the final 1804 massacre there as instigated by the British, might have agreed with advice received in London that with British aid the states of Georgia and the Carolinas could turn over into Black republics.”
 
This fear was heightened by Haiti’s bloody revolution and resulting independence from France. The Corps of Colonial Marines were trained to unleash hit-and-run amphibious assaults up and down the Atlantic coast.
 
With the British arrival in Chesapeake Bay, and instructions from London that any slave who reached British posts and ships were free, thousands of slaves made a desperate dash for freedom.
 
“Most of the refugee body met hostility and unsatisfactory conditions in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,” continues McNish Weiss, “but most of those who settled in Trinidad between 1815 and 1821 found themselves well-established on rich soil in what was, by comparison with Nova Scotia, a land flowing with milk and honey. Over five hundred of these Trinidad settlers achieved that conclusion as Colonial Marines and their families.”
 
Still underdeveloped, Trinidad’s need for new labour coincided with the opportunity to introduce a free class of black yeoman farmers.
 
On arrival in Trinidad waters on August 15, 1816, the men of the Corps of Colonial Marines and their families were sent in two parties to Naparima (now San Fernando) and formally disbanded near the Mission of Savanna Grande (now Princes Town) on August 20. They were organised in villages in their military companies, each under the local supervision of an ex-sergeant.
 
Each household in the settlements was given 16 acres – following the previous Spanish rule for persons of colour — and as much more as they could cultivate.
 
This didn’t sit well with the resident French planters, and it took some 30 years before confirmation of absolute title was given to those remaining settlers who claimed it.
 
The soldiers were mostly Baptists, the remainder Methodists.
 
An 1824 report mentions 20 Muslims, presumably among the small proportion of the settlers born in Africa within the group of 100 who were from Georgia.
 
These would have been the first Muslims recorded in Trinidad.
 
The traditions and survival strategies of the Merikins still live on today in their descendants, who believe that these African-American farmers and landowners have much to teach the people Trinidad and Tobago.
 
And the first lesson is about how history has overlooked many of our heroes.
 
For more information about the merikin exhibition at the National museum, which runs from August 17-September 30, and fund-raising efforts, please call Akilah Jaramogi @ 689-7794, Augustus Lewis @ 658-3367 or Kenneth Phillips @ 364-0450

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Jack is the acting Prime Minister of  Trinidad & Tobago,  embarassing man embarassing .

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General Discussion / Re: PNM BLANKED
« on: October 12, 2011, 10:45:13 AM »
So dey sey becarefull what you ask for .

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What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895...

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of you have passed the 8th grade in 1895?

This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA .
It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina , and reprinted by the Salina Journal. 

8th Grade Final Exam: Salina , KS - 1895
 
Grammar-- (Test time, one hour)

1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph
4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of 'lie,''play,' and 'run.'
5. Define case; illustrate each case.
6 What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Test time,1 hour 15 minutes)

1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. Deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. Wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. For tare?
4. District No 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find the cost of 6,720 lbs. Coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft.. Long at $20 per metre?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance of which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt

U.S. History (Test time, 45 minutes)

1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus 
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States 
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas 
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton , Bell , Lincoln , Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.
 
Orthography (Test time, one hour)
 
1. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u.'
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis-mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane , vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
 
Geography (Test time, one hour)

1 What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas ?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America 
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia , Odessa , Denver , Manitoba , Hecla , Yukon , St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco 
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.

Notice that the exams took FIVE HOURS to complete.

Gives the saying 'he only had an 8th grade education' a whole new meaning, doesn't it?  Also shows you how poor our education system has become and, NO, I don't have the answers either! Remember I have a High School and College Education!!!

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This shit is so touching, tears came to my eyes just listening  what a innocent man have to go true all because of a lie .

The part that touch me the most was in  the gathering when the murderd man brother walked in and warner hug him and said i forgiveyou .

I wondering how much other innocent people in jail because of a lie .   

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General Discussion / Germany returns skulls to Namibia
« on: October 04, 2011, 09:31:56 PM »

Germany returns skulls to Namibia
 

A member of a delegation from Namibia looks at one of 20 skulls to be repatriated to Namibia during a handover ceremony at Charite hospital in Berlin last week. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
 


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Hundreds of Namibians have welcomed home the skulls of 20 of their ancestors that were taken to Germany for racial experiments more than a century ago.
 
After three years of negotiations, Germany agreed to return the skulls that were taken to German research institutions after a 1904-1907 campaign of slaughter that saw tens of thousands of Namibians killed by their colonial overlords.
 
The skulls of four females and 16 males from the Herero and Nama tribes, including a young boy of about three, came from Berlin’s Charite University. The heads had been removed from their bodies and preserved in formaldehyde intact with faces, skin and hair.
 
Researchers say the skulls do not show any sign of violence, and it is not clear how the people died.
 
Once the remains arrived in Berlin, scientists tried to prove the “racial superiority” of white Europeans over black Africans by analysing the facial features of the heads, according to Thomas Schnalke, head of Berlin Medical Historical Museum. In the 1920s, the heads were further dissected until only the skulls remained.
 
The skulls are “testimony to the horrors of colonialism and German cruelty against our people”, Namibian prime minister Nahas Angula said at a ceremony at Windhoek airport today. “The Namibian nation accepts these mortal remains as a symbolic closure of a tragic chapter.”
 
German ambassador Egon Kochanke said he welcomed home the skulls and added it was time for the two countries to move forward.
 
Some Herero and Nama people made it clear they are not so willing to forget the past and waved banners demanding reparations from Germany for what some historians call the first genocide of the 20th century. Historians say German troops killed and starved to death 60,000 of the 85,000 Herero people from 1904-07.
 
“We are ready for battle! We are going to fight!” Herero warriors in military uniform chanted as a leader, chest covered in animal skins, led a cleansing ceremony watched by tribal chiefs in red and yellow hats.
 
It is not known how many hundreds more skulls may remain in Germany.
 
Germany only apologised for the massacres in 2004, during ceremonies marking the centenary of the start of the Herero uprising against German colonisers. But the German government does not acknowledge that there was a genocide of the Herero in what it then called German South West Africa.
 
Germany also has refused Herero demands for reparations, saying it gives generous aid to Namibia’s government for all the country’s two million people.

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Jokes / Richard Pryor as Obama...32 years ago
« on: October 02, 2011, 06:24:17 PM »
Richard Pryor as Obama...32 years ago





 Richard Pryor, as the 1st black President
It's hard to believe that Pryor did this video skit 32 years ago.
Better than brilliant!
 
Check this out! See the parallel between this skit and President
Obama, years later. This classic was filmed 32 years ago; little did
we know...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=-_cdbByTeNE

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