CARIBBEAN - MISCELLANEOUS

THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE

Category Five:
More than 155mph (more than 249kph)
Category Four:
131-155mph (210-249kph)
Category Three:
111-130mph (178-209kmh)
Category Two:
96-110mph (154-177kmh)
Category One:
74-95mph (119-153kmh)

A VIEW OF TOURISM

V.S. Naipaul in The Middle Passage (1962):

"Every poor country accepts tourism as an unavoidable degradation. None has gone as far as some of these West Indian Islands which, in the name of tourism, are selling themselves into a new slavery."

WHAT IS THE WEST INDIES?

This term is used in several senses:
(1)  In its widest geographical sense,  to the islands of the Greater and Lesser Antilles excluding the Bahamas.
(2)  In relation to the Federation of the West Indies, a union of British possessions excluding Guyana and Belize. The union lasted from 1958 to 1962.
(3)  In relation to members of  the Caribbean Community (Caricom).
(4)  In relation to the cricket team that draws its players from countries in the region.
(5)  In relation to the official title of the regional University of the West Indies. 

BUSH TEA

Bush Tea is known and used all over the Caribbean. It refers to any of a variety of plant potions made by boiling or heating herbs in water.

BUSH BABY

A Bush Baby is a baby who is brought up on bush tea. Sometimes this happens because the infant's stomach does not tolerate cow's milk well.