Badman Barty's Trip to Trinidad

luka

luka

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Barty was up all night lovingly compiling this playlist for @Benny B and for the whole class. He wants you to listen lovingly yet forensically but as it has been a difficult and grinding year he makes one beseeching earnest request and insists on one iron rule. If you've got nothing nice to say don't say anything at all. This must be a gentle pool of rippling love, good faith and mutual pleasuring. He's feeling very bruised and tender and can't bear any negativity. If you don't like it, keep it to yourself. If you love it, express your ardent feelings and share them with us all.

 
luka

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Destination Trinidad and Tobago, a virtual guide to the twin island republic separated by the Columbus Channel from Venezuela.

Discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1498, Trinidad was settled by Spanish in 1577 and Tobago was settled by the English in 1616.

The two islands were joined politically as a British colony in 1888. From 1958 to 1962 they were part of the short-lived West Indies Federation, together with Barbados and Jamaica and other former colonies of the United Kingdom. Trinidad and Tobago became a sovereign state in 1962.

With an area of 5,130 km², the island nation is about twice the size of Luxembourg or slightly smaller than the U.S. stateof Delaware. Trinidad's landscape offers mostly plains with some hills and low mountains in north, within the Aripo Massif is the nations highest point, El Cerro del Aripo at 940 m. Tobago island is of volcanic origin and primarily hilly.

Trinidad and Tobago has a population of 1.3 million people. Capital is Port of Spain, largest city San Fernando. Spoken languages are Trinidadian English and English Creole.
 
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People:
Nationality: Trinidadian(s) and Tobagonian(s).
Population: 1.3 million (2015)
Ethnic groups: African 40%, East Indian 40%, mixed 14%, European 1%, Chinese 1%.
Religions: Christians 60%, Hindu 24%, Muslim 6%, other 10%.
Languages: English.
Literacy: 98%

Natural resources: Petroleum, natural gas.

Agriculture products: Cocoa, sugarcane, rice, citrus, coffee, vegetables; poultry.

Industries: Petroleum, chemicals, tourism, food processing, cement, beverage, cotton textiles.

Exports - commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, liquefied natural gas, methanol, ammonia, urea, steel products, beverages, cereal and cereal products, cocoa, fish, preserved fruits, , cosmetics, household cleaners, plastic packaging
 
Benny Bunter

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Aww what a sweetie, thanks for this Barty! Putting this on now.

I was sort of skipping through a huge trinibad spotify playlist last night, but nice to have a more focussed selection.

Already love Dead Like Dog Riddim and a few others I see here and that one with steel pans - Stacking I think?
 
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Green anacondas are found in Trinidad and tropical South America, east of the Andes, south to Bolivia and northern Paraguay. They live in sluggish streams, rivers and adjacent swamps and marshes.
 
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British Jamaican pirates captured the island in January 1666; the official English garrison surrendered to a French attack in August the same year. The Dutch admiral Abraham Crijnssen reclaimed a deserted colony in April 1667 and reestablished a fort. An attempt to restore the Courish Fort Jacob was suppressed in December 1668. In December, 1672, the British attacked and destroyed the Dutch colony as part of the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Dutch control was regained under the status quo ante provisions of the Second Treaty of Westminster in 1674; in September 1676, Fort Sterreschans was constructed near the ruins of Fort Vlissingen. This star fort was reinforced in February 1677, but French attacks in February, March, and December of that year finally succeeded in killing the Dutch governor and capturing the island.
 
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In July 1990, the Jamaat al Muslimeen, an extremist Black Muslim group with an unresolved grievance against the government over land claims, tried to overthrow the NAR government. The group held the prime minister and members of parliament hostage for five days while rioting shook Port of Spain. After a long standoff with the police and military, the Jamaat al Muslimeen leader, Yasin Abu Bakr, and his followers surrendered to Trinidadian authorities. Having had the matter referred back to the local courts by the Privy Council with a clear indication of a view that the amnesty was valid, in July 1992, the High Court upheld the validity of a government amnesty given to the Jamaat members during the hostage crisis. Abu Bakr and 113 other Jamaat members were jailed for two years while the courts debated the amnesty's validity. All 114 members were eventually released. Subsequent to this, the UK Privy Council deemed the amnesty invalid but expressed the view that it would be improper to re-arrest the 114 accused.
 
luka

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sadmanbarty said:
I make these playlists as a note to self- as little reminders to listen later- so don’t blame me if there are loads of rubbish ones in the playlist.
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I've just told Benny B you were up all night making it just for him
 
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I phoned Luke yesterday and was saying that benny b is a crucial voice on the forum and I was glad to see him come back.

Obviously everyone can like what they like, but it is nice if the forum has a bit of an identity insofar as it can go “this is the place to come to if you like nuum, dancehall, rnb, etc. And you like it in a proper way.”. benny’s a central part of giving the forum that identity (at least in the years since I’ve been on the forum).
 
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