﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet title='XSL_formatting' type='text/xsl' href='/StyleSheets/feeds.xsl'?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>DefinitiveCaribbean.com Caribbean Stories</title><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/StoryFeed.aspx</link><description>Caribbean Information from DefinitiveCaribbean.com</description><copyright>(c) 2003 - 2009 Definitive World Guides Limited. All rights reserved.</copyright><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[How HALF MOON came about]]></title><description><![CDATA[Half Moon has an illustrious history, which now stretches back over 50 years. The idea for the hotel was conceived in the early 1950s by a group of American, British and Bermudian entrepreneurs who l]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=287</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour DMC - My Jamaica Tour ……through the eyes of your Destination Manager]]></title><description><![CDATA[Montego Bay,  02 May, 2009 - by Rachel Anderson

Tour the other side of Jamaica and experience the “life”. See the many villages, little towns and farming communities, the interior and the South Co]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=279</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking at Leaves]]></title><description><![CDATA[To many people a leaf is just a leaf and they are totally unaware of the variety of leaves found on just one small island like Nevis!  Many do not realize that a Palm Frond is also a leaf, though 10 ]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=230</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Review of staying in the Churchill Suite at Jamaica Inn]]></title><description><![CDATA[With all the hotels in the Caribbean falling over themselves over recently to build suites – one hotelier from Anguilla said to me ‘I could have built twice as many and charged twice as much. The pri]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=214</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinidad Birding - The veranda at the Asa Wright Nature Centre]]></title><description><![CDATA[By James Henderson

The veranda is one of the Caribbean's most civilized institutions. Neither inside nor out, you are sheltered there from the sun and rain and yet you have the best of the breeze ]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=204</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking Tiny]]></title><description><![CDATA[by Jim Johnson, walknevis@caribsurf.com

Speaking of looking little, let’s talk tiny, this means really small!

The hotels and private homes have some realy beautiful flowers that are big and sho]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=184</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petit Bacaye, Peter & Julia's Story]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1995, Julia and I decided to look for our own tiny slice of paradise in the Caribbean.  What we wanted was year-round warmth and an easy flight.  Having visited most of the islands in the region I]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=180</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restoring Epping Forest]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2001 my wife Jackie and I came to Grenada on holiday to see where our son was going to work.  He had been offered a job as a scuba instructor in one of the hotels on the island.  Never having been]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=178</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Story of Port Royal]]></title><description><![CDATA[‘The place was a gilded Hades, and Mammon held sovereign sway over its people. Bearded seamen, bronzed and weather-stained, bedecked with priceless jewellery and the finest silks of the Orient, swagg]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=161</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Buccaneers and Pirates]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Buccaneers came to Port Royal soon after the English took over Jamaica, but their original home had been in the remote north-western areas of Hispaniola. They were a ragtag bunch of sharpshooters]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=162</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Maroon Wars]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Maroons waged a successful guerrilla campaign against the English settlers and authorities for a full eighty years after their arrival in 1655. Even in the 1660s the English had to treat with the]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=163</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Slave Trade]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the 18th century Jamaica became Britain’s wealthiest and most valuable colony in the West Indies. The basis of the wealth was sugar, and the island was turned into a massive sugar factory, for]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=164</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abolition and Emancipation]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the eighteenth century there was little moral debate about slavery. It was an accepted institution pretty well all over the world and only a few groups, such as the Quakers, stood out against ]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=165</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life on the Plantations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slaves in the British colonies had no legal rights and they were said not have souls. They could not own property, they were barred from giving evidence on court against a free man and they could not]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=166</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcus Garvey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marcus Garvey was born in 1887 in St Ann’s Bay (where there is a statue to him outside the Parish library), the youngest of eleven children, and he was apprenticed to be a printer in Kingston. As a y]]></description><link>http://www.definitivecaribbean.com/Caribbean-stories.aspx?i=167</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>