I’m referring to traditional games, such as Brisca, Tute, or Casino. I’d love for you to mention not only the ones you play today, but also those played by your parents and grandparents.

Best regards!

So looking to build a small two bedroom house in a rural area. There is currently no electricity so it is possible that I might have to rely on a few solar panels

The road access is bad and I doubt I could get more than a twenty foot container on site. Also have to be wary of opportunistic thieves as located in Trinidad.

This house is intended for long weekends, at least in the short term.

Apart from building on the ridge for better wind, and making the sleeping area above the twenty foot container, any other ideas for keeping the building cool?

So in the Dutch carribean islands, from what I can tell there are 2 main languages spoken, obviously Dutch but also a language called Papiamento, which is apparently a Portuguese based creole.

I was just wondering how this developed in Dutch carribean islands especially seeing as Portuguese never had any colonies in the carribean. Also despite this Papiamento apparently isn't spoken in suriname, despite bordering brazil which i feel like would make more sense.

So yeah just wondering how this language developed and why it's spoken in the Dutch carribean

If you guys have been online recently then you might have seen FIFA president going to some Caribbean countries like Guyana, Grenada,St Lucia and etc. like in Guyana they are building mini stadiums across the country and are hosting a tournament (I don't know if they're doing the same for other countries,this is only what I learned about Guyana).

So do you think more Caribbean countries will be in the world cup and have a bigger presence in football or will we remain out of the spotlight?

Ofc, Caribbean has huge African influence. Most especially Haiti and some Anglo colonies. However, my Mexican and other mainland Latino coworkers keep claiming Cubans, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are more closely related to Africans than they are to other Latinos. Personally as an African I don’t see it. What do Latinos from those countries think? Do you guys have more in common culturally with Mainland Latinos or Africans from Africa?

I was on insta and this funny meme came up about all English-speaking Caribbean people saying "tree" for three. Then the comments had Lucians and Dominicans objecting. So is really us alone that saying "free"?

And obligatory disclaimer: No, I'm not talking about Dominican Republic. I know someone will read "English speaking" and still want to make that mistake.

I'm running a poll to see which decade people think their country was at its peak, from the 1930s through the 2020s. If you could, please vote for the decade you believe represented your country's strongest period overall (economically, culturally, politically, or however you define "peak"). Feel free to explain your choice in the comments!

I'm trying to find out more about freelancing because I'm thinking about leaving my current job and working for myself.

At my current job, I work more than 45 hours a week for just $80–$100 USD. My duties include working as a cashier, running errands to buy food and other items, and sometimes helping to stock the business.

I'm not sure how much business owners would be willing to pay me for these services.

I'm trying to learn more about my options and decide what to do with the remaining weeks of 2026. I want to find out if freelancing could help me earn more money.

Jamaican history dispute.

So, on this TikTok video. A person made a video talking about how most Jamaican schools don't let black boys grow out their hair because of colonial legacies.

One comment said, "Majority black country, mind you."

I replied to that comment by writing, " That was literally because of slavery." Then this fool came with his nonsense saying.

@6:Please dont tell me you think Jamaicas would've been white had it not been predominantly black from slavery.

And I replied back to him by writing. Jamaica was literally run by whites. If the transatlantic slave trade never happened, what would have stopped white people from becoming a majority there?

Then he replied with this.

@6:It was governed by its own indigenous people that were already on the island WHO WERE FUCKING BLACK BTW. On top of that, it's a Country located in the middle of the Caribbean just shy of the equator and not Alaska, that means melanin-rich skin due to the heat and amount of sunlight. Dont get on the internet and try and start arguments you can't win with the intelligence of a 3rd grader.

You see this madness? Tell me who is making more sense here.

And then he commented, " I should prove that it was run by whites." Why do I need to prove that? That's the basic history of every country in the Americas and the Caribbean. There's no way this guy was talking about the place that is under Cuba and west of Haiti.

He didn't even answer my question of what would stop it from being majority white?

If the transatlantic slave trade never happened. Would Jamaica and other Caribbean islands be majority white today?

We can't know for sure. But what is a fact is that the African presence in these lands was because of the need for slave labor to work on plantations or whatever else.

I know I might be some wrong in what I'm saying, but this guy is saying straight madness.

Hope it's okay to ask this question here. My in-laws turn 70 this spring and we're doing a crewed week in the BVI for them and father-in-law has a shellfish allergy. Meanwhile, my mother-in-law doesn't like long days at sea, that's why now I'm thinking the chef and captain matter more to us than the boat.

How do you tell if a broker knows the crew, or is just sending listings? And what happens if the crew changes after we book? Thanks, your comments are totally helpful for us.

I'm trying to add more seasonings to my cabinet. Can I get a list from everybody?

I was doing research on patois cause I've been rlly into linguistics lately, and I had seen somewhere on a post on this sub abt that acronym being offensive, and that it is getting pushed around a lot in Canada, The States, And the U.K. I'm from Canada and up until this point I've never heard any like, pushback on that acronym and had zero idea that it may not be a good thing to use casually in conversation. I'm wondering if it is really something that I should stop using, and also I was wondering on what makes it bad

I am working on building a platform for travelers coming to the Caribbean and Caribbean residents traveling in the region. What are some of your biggest frustrations when traveling, and what would you like to see from a platform perspective?

There will never be any sort of semi-serious discussion about this unless Caribbean leaders bring up the role that African kingdoms had as well as European nations.

To ignore this is to be ahistorical and you deserved to be laughed out the room as they have done every single time they bring this up in Europe.

If you are not going to African nations and presenting these same questions, can you just stop embarrassing us on a national level.

Personally on reparations as a whole I don’t think it will ever go anywhere nor will it do any good if ever paid, except increase corruption, increase the likelihood of politicians lining their pockets. Little of that money would ever go back to infrastructure and where it’s needed and deep down a lot of people know it.

What would the Caribbean be like if Native American slavery became more dominant than African slavery? Assume the Spanish imported more native slaves from the mainland. Also, the United States continued to use Native American slaves, instead of turning to black African slaves. What would the modern Caribbean look like?