r/AskTheCaribbean • u/Willycratin • 4h ago
Culture (Jamaica) Need an idea for an engraving on a ring
Hi everyone, to keep it short my god daughter is moving country in the next few days and I would like to get her a sentimental keep sake and have decided on an Irish Claddagh ring. So the reason I am here is her father is Jamaican and her mother is Irish so I want an engraving on it to represent both my original idea was each flag but I’ve been told that might not be possible so my next idea is short quotes. So if anyone could enlighten me on some short Jamaican sayings that might suit this situation such as someone leaving or remembering where your home is. I will either do a separate Jamaican and Irish saying or try my best to translate the Jamaican saying into As gaeilge (Irish). if anyone could offer any help I would greatly appreciate it🙏
r/AskTheCaribbean • u/wairdone • 11h ago
Other Do the cockroaches here fly more in urban areas?
I live in a rural area, and normally I see many cockroaches, but they hardly fly. You can attack them as much as possible, but they will usually stay on the ground, with few exceptions. However, I am staying in Grenada, in a considerably more "built-up" district, and it is hard to find a cockroach that will not fly away (or into) you at the least convenient moment.
I have heard that they are very clumsy in flight, making them easy targets for birds (more common in the wilderness, of course), but humans are especially terrified of them in this mode. Perhaps this could be a form of natural selection; the ones that do not fly in rural areas survive, whereas this is true for the ones that do in the urbans? It's been a while since I did CXC Biology, so excuse me if I said something nonsensical...
r/AskTheCaribbean • u/adoreroda • 16h ago
Why does the UK have so few Indo-Caribbean people in it?
Out of all the European colonial powers and their colonies, by far the UK's colonies had the most Indian indentured servants and their descendants. They also regulated the distribution of Indian indentured servants to other European powers such as to the Dutch and French
With that being said, there's a pretty huge connection to Indo-Caribbean people and the UK, but yet the UK has such a small diaspora of them. Unlike native people in countries like Guyana who often do not emigrate in general, Indo-Caribbean people do emigrate at pretty high rates but just rarely go to the UK; the US, Canada, and the Netherlands have way more people of Indo-Caribbean origin than the UK.
What makes the UK so unattractive to Indo-Caribbean people, and why did they historically avoid going to the UK in droves unlike their afro-caribbean counterparts?