Bruce was born in Leeds, Yorkshire to a West Indian father and white mother, but was put up for adoption aged three and raised in Craghead, County Durham.
The specific name guadalupensis refers to the West Indian island of Guadeloupe.
Project 2x1 is styled as a documentary film covering the daily lives of the Chabad Hasidic and West Indian residents of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
The second narrative involves a gay punk (Jason Durr) and a soul boy (Mo Sesay) in a relationship, which is the source of the narrative conflict as they face double prejudice of racism and homophobia, in both West Indian and white British communities.
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Barrington St Aubyn Browne (born 16 September 1967, in New Amsterdam, Guyana) is a former West Indian cricketer who played four ODIs in 1994.
Dr Carlos Bertram (Bertie) Clarke, OBE (7 April 1918, Lakes Folly, Cats Castle, St Michael, Barbados – 14 October 1993, Putney, London, England) was a West Indian cricketer who played in three Tests in 1939.
Cameron Wilberforce Smith (born July 29, 1933, Upper Dayrells Road, Saint Michael, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1960 to 1962.
David Anthony Jerome Holford (born April 16, 1940, Upper Collymore Rock, Saint Michael, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in 24 Tests from 1966 to 1977.
James Edward Derrick Sealy (11 September 1912, Collymore Rock, Barbados – 3 January 1982, Palo Seco, Trinidad) was a West Indian cricketer who played in 11 Tests from 1930 to 1939.
Delmont Cameron St Clair Hinds (born 1 June 1880 at Westbury Road, St Michael, Barbados, death details unknown) was a coloured West Indian cricketer who toured with the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.
The term can also be used to refer to the West Indian Burr Gherkin (Cucumis anguria), a related species, originally from West Africa and introduced to the West Indies, probably by the Portuguese.
Gilbert Vivian Livingston (born 22 November 1877 in the West Indies, death details unknown) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.
Unskilled labor was variously sourced but the great majority of laborers were West Indians; their wages were paid in local silver-backed currency.
Ivan Samuel Madray (born 2 July 1934, Port Mourant, British Guiana (now Guyana), died 23 April 2009, Georgetown, Guyana) was a West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1958.
Claude Keith Bancroft (30 October 1885 in Fontabelle, St Michael, Barbados – 12 January 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the second West Indian touring side to England in 1906 as their wicket-keeper.
Lionel Smythe D'Ade (c. 1875 in Trinidad – unknown) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.
Born to a West Indian American (Barbados) mother and Mashpee Wampanoag father, Mwalim grew up in both the Northeast Bronx and Mashpee, Massachusetts.
The English team, fictitiously named Sneddington (based in Lavenham, Suffolk) invites a team of West Indian heritage based in Brixton (South London) to play a charity game in support of their “Third World Week.”
Raphick Rasif Jumadeen (born 12 April 1948, Harmony Hall, Gasparillo, Trinidad) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in twelve Tests from 1972 to 1979.
Reginald Osmond Scarlett (born August 15, 1934, Port Maria, St Mary, Jamaica) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in 3 Tests in 1960.
Ryan "The Man" Hurley (born 13 September 1975 in Springhead, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played nine ODIs in 2003–04.
William Henry Mignon (1874 in Lewisham, London – 30 November 1965 in the West Indies) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.
During this time he also edited and published An Anthology of Guianese Poetry (1954); The Kyk-Over-Al Anthology of West Indian Poetry (1952; revised ed. 1958); and the Miniature Poets Series (1951–53) of pamphlets, which included work by Carter, Harris, Ivan Van Sertima, Trinidadian Harold Telemaque, Barbadian Frank Collymore, and Jamaican Philip Sherlock.
In this match, Lockett took the wicket of Frank Martin in the West Indian first-innings, while he took the wicket of Vibart Wight in their second-innings.
At the time the West Indies were without many of their leading players due to a dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board, so seven Test debutantes featured in the West Indian team.
An abridged version was published as The Case for West Indian Self-Government by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1933.
At the outset of World War I, the popularity of the colonial troops at the time led to the replacement of the West Indian by the now more familiar jolly Senegalese infantry man enjoying Banania.
Pimenta racemosa, also known as West Indian Bay tree, from Myrtaceae family, used to produce Bay rum
A British Islands cricket team first appeared in West Indian cricket in the 1991 Leeward Islands Tournament against the United States Virgin Islands at the Lionel Roberts Stadium, Charlotte Amalie.
West Indian food is itself a mixture of African, British, Indian, Spanish, French and Indigenous cooking styles.
Within one generation the etymon, meaning Green Port or Trading Place (cf Norwich, Harwich Ipswich and Sandwich in England) of the surname had assumed the distinctly West Indian orthographic format of Greenidge, whilst maintaining a very similar phenomic identity.
The Silver Cemetery was originally established as a segregated cemetery for the "Silver Roll" (Black people of West Indian origin) employees of the Panama Canal.
The form of Virgin Islands Creole, an English-based West Indian dialect, spoken on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Darren Michael Bravo (born 6 February 1989 in Santa Cruz, Trinidad) is a West Indian cricketer who plays domestic cricket for Trinidad and Tobago and has appeared for the West Indies cricket team in One Day International (ODI) cricket and Test cricket.
The first was against Hampshire, who were being captained by former West Indian Test cricketer Roy Marshall.
In accordance with his will his ash was scattered over the Blanchisseuse Beach of Walker's West Indian home, just like Toivanen himself had fulfilled the will of his Estonian-born mother in Narva-Jõesuu.
Joseph 'Float' Woods (born about 1872 in Barbados, death details unknown) was a coloured West Indian cricketer best known as a member of the 1900 West Indian tourists to England.
George Fitzpatrick married Phyllis Sinanan, sister of Mitra and Ashford Sinanan, uniting the Fitzpatrick family with another prominent political family of Trinidad (see Ashford Sinanan, Ambassador, Leader of the Opposition, Democratic Labour Party (DLP), West Indies Federation, Founder of the West Indian National Party (WINP) and High Commissioner to India.
The town began with the construction of the railway built by West Indian employees of Minor Cooper Keith in the 1880s.
In February 1785 William Pitt offered half that sum for it, and on receiving a refusal passed through parliament a bill to impose heavy taxation upon the unproductive lands in all the West Indian islands.
Two of the matches involved crowd trouble, first in Ahmedabad, where crowd trouble interrupted play and in Calcutta, where a firecracker exploded in West Indian Keith Arthurtons face.
In 1926, he planned a flight to Liberia with backing from a West Indian subsidiary of Standard Oil, boxer Tiger Flowers, and Elks Lodges, but it never took place.
West Indian batting legend "King" Viv Richards, by far the greatest ODI batsman of all time and often considered the greatest batsman since Don Bradman, rates Thomson as the fastest he has ever faced.
In 1949–50, when Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) declined to tour India, the former England wicketkeeper George Duckworth assembled a Commonwealth side consisting of Lancashire League players plus a handful of English and West Indian cricketers.
Barbadian historian Sir Hilary Beckles has said of this work that it "makes a seminal contribution to early West Indian economic and social history."
The first Test he umpired was the controversial Test at Old Trafford in 1976 when England's batsmen John Edrich and Brian Close were subject to a bouncer barrage from the West Indian Quicks.
Immediately after this final Test, the West Indian team went to Blackpool to play a first-class match against a team raised by Sir Lindsay Parkinson; Martindale took eight wickets in an innings for the third time in the season, this time for 39 runs.
The West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine included 'Maraval' in his full title when, in 1969, he became a Life Peer and member of the British House of Lords.
Other flora found within the park are: Guavaberry, large patches of moss, epiphytes or air plants, Elephant Ear Vine (Philodendron), Fig Tree, White "Cedar" (not actually a cedar but a flowering tree, Tabebuia heterophylla), a West Indian species of tree fern, manilkara, and mountain guava (Psidium amplexicaule).
The West Indian coastal towns close to the Arabian Sea of Tadkeshwar and Randher neighbouring the famous port of Surat, in particular have a strong history of Nakhudas dating back to the Mughal and the Safavid Dynasty.
He played the lead role of Willie Boy in the 1987 comedy Playing Away, about a West Indian cricket team invited to play a rural white team.
The Spike Lee biographic film Malcolm X portrays some of the revolutionary black leader Malcolm X's early days in Harlem, where he worked as a numbers runner for a man named "West Indian Archie."
He was in charge of the station at San Juan, Puerto Rico, from April 2, 1909 to August 10, 1912, and April 14, 1919 to June 10, 1930, where he had general charge of the West Indian and Caribbean service.
Having observed the tributes paid to O’Connor at his funeral, then editor of The Nation and leading Caribbean intellectual C. L. R. James called for recognition of O’Connor as a great West Indian.
Other West Indian domestic teams that have taken part include a University of the West Indies cricket team and most recently (in the 2007–08 edition to 2009–10 edition) a Combined Campuses and Colleges cricket team and the West Indian Under-19 cricket team.
Sound clashes are an integral part of black culture in London as portrayed in the cult movie Babylon, at the same time that real-life sound systems such as Jah Shaka and Ital Lion were competing for supremacy in Deptford which is in The London Borough of Lewisham a traditional West-Indian area of South London.
The initial organisers were the St Paul's and Environs Consultative Committee and the West Indian Development Association, aided by the vicar of St Agnes Church and Carmen Beckford, Bristol's first community development worker.
Turbinella angulata, the West Indian chank shell, a very large tropical sea snail species found in the Western Atlantic Ocean from the Florida Keys and the Bahamas south to Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti and from the Caribbean coast of Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia
They moved to London in 1973 and quickly gained prominence in the West African and West Indian music scene, before fragmenting four years later.
The team gained former West Indian international player Philo Wallace for the 2003–04 competition, as well as two other players with previous experience, prompting one commentator to predict that UWI would be the Bowl's "most improved team".
The West Indian Prisons Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 67) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on August 4, 1838.
As a result the Bustamante-led Jamaica Labour Party (the local component of the West Indian DLP) successfully forced Manley to hold a referendum in September 1961 on political secession from the Federation.
Set in suburban south London in 1960, several themes run through the film, though the main storyline concerns the friendship between a young boy, David Wiseman (Sam Smith) who is the son of European Jewish immigrants, and his new next door neighbours, father and Dennis (Delroy Lindo) and young daughter Judy (Leonie Elliott) who are West Indian immigrants.