St. Vincent & Dominica (travel-documentary from the season “Caribbean Moments”)

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St. Vincent belongs to the Windward-Islands and it is located in the north of Trinidad and Tobago. The volcanic island lies north of the small island Bequia, which is strongly influenced by whaling.
Because of its diverse flora and fauna, the Caribbean Island Dominica is also known as the "nature island". Diseases are cured traditionally by herbs growing here.

St Vincent and the Grenadines are in the Eastern Caribbean Sea. The natives are the descendants of the caribs, which immigrated from Venezuela. St. Vincent is a volcanic Island and forms with forty other islands the island state St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
1498 Christopher Columbus arrived in St. Vincent where the Caribs lived. It remained very long uncolonised It was occupied by the British in the 18th century.
Whale hunting was an important part of the local economy. Today there is an agreement with greenpeace to hunt four Humpback whales a year for the own consumption.

Life in Roseau, the capital of Dominica, is much more hectic. It has the unofficial name “The Nature Island”. Domenica is very mountainous and has a lot of rivers and waterfalls. Chistopher Columbus did not set a food on the island, but gave her its name from “Domingo”, Sunday. Dominica was the last island colonised by the Europeans because of the resistance of the caribs. Herbs are used for healing, the very traditional medical knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. Canoes are constructed from a single treetrunk.

St Vincent and Domenica have the only Carib reservations in the whole Caribbean. It is here that the descendants of the people who gave the name to the region continued to live.They are the last reminents who long resisted the colonial ambition of the European and never allowed to be enslaved

by Hannes Naderhirn, 2010, future production&promotion

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Caribbean Moments shows a different side to the Caribbean. Everyone visualises sand, sunshine and palm trees – but hardly anyone really discovers what lies behind them. In fact an unbelievable variety of cultures, music and religions has developed as a result of the different influences – African, Indian, English, French and authentically Caribbean.

This documentary series attempts to portray the people – be they the Rastas, who have a lot to say about their mission, the Amerindians in Trinidad, who still have their own Queen, or the Black Caribs – a mixture of escaped slaves and Caribs.

In addition, of course, there’s a huge variety of music: steelpan, parang, calypso, soca and chutney soca shape Trinidad, whilst other islands are especially scenically beautiful, such as Dominica, which is actually a single rain forest and which seduces with its abundant vegetation. Here too are the true Caribs, who occupy themselves with traditional boat building in the same way as their ancestors did centuries ago.

The films were produced in 6 parts to create a documentary series that shows what lies beneath the surface.

29 Comments on "St. Vincent & Dominica (travel-documentary from the season “Caribbean Moments”)"

  1. Actually, St. Vincent and the Grenadines belongs to the Windward Islands.

  2. Nice doc, but there are some glaring mistakes in the voice-over. For
    example, Dominica is pronounced “dom-min-EE-ka” not, “‘dum-inica”, and
    Kalinago is pronounced “Kali-nago” and not, “Ka-lingo”! Other than that,
    it’s very nicely done and well presented.

  3. I don’t think the garifuna are African at all, I think they found negroes
    on all those islands already and now they just trying to write these
    people’s history away. I mean the Caribbean is soooo black no way you gonna
    tell me they whipped out all those indians to bring another race of people
    who ain’t while to live on the land, they probably brought a few Africans
    over, but I bet the majority of the blacks on those islands have always
    been there.

    • +anonymous native Lol monkey heads and jaguar, you funny, look man the
      conquistadors said they say negroes here simple as that. Floyd May weather
      not knowing how to read ain’t got nothing to do with nothing, I checked out
      3 other sources that state that the skull ain’t got native American
      features. I done here have a nice day

  4. marioriospinot | March 5, 2015 at 9:22 pm | Reply

    Nice.

  5. anonymous native | March 6, 2015 at 2:07 am | Reply

    The natives of the Caribbean are here to stay thank god.

  6. briantravelman | June 16, 2015 at 11:04 pm | Reply

    Interesting. I didn’t know there were Caribs outside of Dominica, but what
    they said about them is not true. Defensive my butt! Yes, they defended
    themselves against Colonialists, which is understandable, but before the
    Colonists arrived, the Caribs went to all the Caribbean islands, and killed
    off the “peaceful” Arawaks, for no reason, other than wanting to take over
    the islands. Sounds familiar. They would tie their enemies to trunk of the
    Manchineel Tree, to ensure a slow and painful death, or they would eat
    them. They were no better than those Colonialists. Maybe even more brutal.

    That being said, these islands are a perfect example of what the Caribbean
    was like, before mass tourism took over.
    I disagree that there is nothing to do on Bequia. There is stuff to do,
    just not a lot. But it is the most interesting of the Grenadine islands.
    Wished they delved more into the natural wonders, and historic sites of the
    islands.

    • Giselle Thomas | August 28, 2015 at 4:21 am | Reply

      Trinidad and Tobago also had a great Carib and Arawak tribes as well before
      slaves were brought in from Africa and Indian.

    • briantravelman | August 30, 2015 at 12:43 am | Reply

      Trinidad doesn’t surprise me, being how close it is to Venezuela.

    • Queenkim VINCYgyal784 | June 26, 2016 at 5:06 am | Reply

      exactly the Grenadines have much to do, idk who they spoke too, and in
      st.vincent you can find many caribs on both sides of the country / & alot
      of us are mix on the island, I myself is mix , places like st.vincent&
      Dominica are some of the few islands that are still unspoilt.

  7. Tecumseh Sherman | June 27, 2015 at 8:09 pm | Reply

    THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT CARIBS…..THEY ARE BLACKS. AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN
    SEE THIS?? ONLY ONE OR TWO LOOK INDIAN.

  8. I enjoyed this

  9. marvin fernandez | July 28, 2015 at 1:57 am | Reply

    Proud to be Garifuna and learn more about kalipuna and the black Caribs of
    Dominica which are part of the same lineage.
    

    • Dave Yasharala | August 29, 2015 at 12:38 am | Reply

      THE CARIBS WERE OF THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM ALSO TAINO INDIANS AND ARAWAK
      INDIANS………..BIBLICAL 10 LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL. IN THE BOOK LOST
      TRIBES AND THE PROMISE LANDS COLUMBUS UPON ARRIVAL STATED THAT THE
      INDIGENOUS TRIBES SPOKE AN ANCIENT DIALECT OF PALEO HEBREW. PLEASE READ KJV
      APOCRYPHA 2 ESDRAS 13:39-48 DESCRIBES HOW THE NORTHERN KINGDOM OF ISRAEL
      FELL BECAUSE OF IDOLATRY AND WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE LAND IN 721 BC BY THE
      ASSYRIANS PRISONERS BY SALMANNESER AND LET ASSYRIA AFTER 3 YEARS AND
      TRAVELLED THROUGH THE RIVER EUPHRATES INTO THE INDIAN OCEAN AND TRAVELLED
      DOWNWARD AND SCATTERED THEMSELVES INTO SOUTHEAST ASIA, PACIFIC ISLANDS,
      SOUTH SEA ISLANDS, MALAY ISLANDS AND AUSTRALIAN ISLANDS THE OTHER TRAVELLED
      AROUND AFRICA INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN UP INTO THE AMERICAS (BIBLICAL
      ARSARETH)

    • +Dave Yasharala Have you smoked marijuana???

  10. Dave Yasharala | August 29, 2015 at 12:45 am | Reply

    RESEARCH MAORI CANOES THIS IS WHAT THE 10 LOST TRIBES USED TO TRAVEL INTO
    THE SOUTH SEAS THE PACIFIC ISLANDS AND NORTH/SOUTH AMERICAS

  11. HigherLiving MG | August 30, 2015 at 11:44 pm | Reply

    Lies . I’m 1492 Columbus Ask The Native Who Were Those Darker People On The
    Island Of Espaniola.

  12. HigherLiving MG | August 30, 2015 at 11:46 pm | Reply

    That’s Why Haitians Speak French, Cuz It’s On The Same Island That Columbus
    Seen Them On. The Black Caribs Are Of The Tribe Of Benjamin And The Native
    Indians Are From Gad. We’re All Hebrews Stop Letting These People Lie To
    Us. But Even So The Liars Will Suffer When The Messiah Returns.

  13. Margaret Clemen | October 8, 2015 at 2:09 am | Reply

    Garafuna

  14. Kickative truth | January 22, 2016 at 6:18 am | Reply

    AHO, I LOVE THE CARIBS KALINAGO, I CANT WAIT TO GO THERE. AND I ALWAYS KNEW
    THE GARIFUNA WERE MIXED WITH NATIVE AMERICAN BLOOD. THEY LOOK REALLY UNIQUE

  15. Hanan Talingdan | April 12, 2016 at 10:52 pm | Reply

    Woow very nice place i lov it wish to explore this place

  16. Baggio Boyce | April 27, 2016 at 9:12 pm | Reply

    We dem boys

  17. Diamxnd Sphynx | August 12, 2016 at 10:29 am | Reply

    Your pronunciation of Dominica is wrong. dom-ih-NEEK-uh not dom-IN-ih-kuh.
    We really hate that.

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