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Ibiza is very close to my heart.
come on mama, let's rent us a boat
sail down that gibraltar moat
shed a tear every time we pass tangier
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.
Pervasive part of the island culture
The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.
I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.
In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long.
UK - that was Britain.
Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.
My family were from Jamaica.
Id like to live in the Greek islands
My country!" said George, with a strong and bitter emphasis; "what country have I, but the grave, - and I wish to God that I was laid there!
Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same.
the only Cuba I could ever imagine. That is, until the dead began to rise.
My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.
Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.
Okay Libya ... got all this stuff twirling around in my head
we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood.
Ubi amo, ibi patria. Where I love. there is my home.
If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each others' tragedies.
[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!
Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.
Bagby Hot Springs.
Come back, come back, back to Jamaica
Don't you know we made a big mistaika
We would be so sad if you told us goodbye
And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
We call it Albion. It is the English-speaking world. The one where they kill babies in the womb, right? And here I was hoping we'd be famous for the Moonshot, or democracy, or the Beatles, or something.
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.
The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.
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Our island. Our love. Our marriage.
I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.
If home is where the heart is, then Belize is my home.
In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise.
Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.
I live between Jamaica and Paris.
The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles
I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.
India Lima Yankee
A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.
Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.
Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
I sometimes detect that a type of regional divide is setting in, and there is a lack of real Caribbean connection among the islands, and I am concerned about this.
London, dirty little pool of life
We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,
My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.
Canada - they won't like me saying this, but it's really like it's a part of Michigan, that area.
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
Name a country, and I have probably been there.
Look up, Granada. Look to your people. We as beautiful and as plentiful as them stars knitted together in heaven. We just forgot. Somebody's got to remember for us all.
Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
Englishmen must have an island.
Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion,
Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased enormously since I moved to Haiti. That's where I write my stories, develop my ideas and write nonstop, so it's a productive time, not a sleepy time.
I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.
I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth.
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card ... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east
How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.
Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.
Do you know the land where the lemon-trees blossom;where the golden oranges glow in the dark foliage'.
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
As they say in Corsica... Goodbye
Montreal, this wonderful town ... Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.
I'm intent on marketing Jamaica. Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.
The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.
United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
Haiti is open for business!
America, the plum blossoms are falling.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor to any group with customs and traditions, but the property of all of us from Sabang to Merauke!
Lucky come Hawai'i." History
Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.
Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
There ain't no island left for islanders like me.
I am Providence.
Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists.
I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In
South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.
Belize, with the help of God and the support of its people, will stand upright and will do its duty and help bring peace, stability and prosperity to our region and to wider circles of our planet Earth.
the government was in danger of being overthrown. If it had succeeded, it would have earned the dubious distinction of being the very first armed takeover of an elected government in an ex-British colony in the West Indies.
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
Greenland is a wonderful country.
I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.