Check out Silverpeople.biz here.Last week was an eventful one here in Panama particularly since we were once again visited by the group of returning Silver People and their friends who take the annual cruise with the Sociedad Panameña de Port Charlotte. Continue reading
My first image gallery of the syncretic response to assimilation by Black Hispanic people like me.
“assimilate: a. to take in and utilize as nourishment: absorb into the system. b. to take into the mind and thoroughly comprehend. c. to absorb into the culture and mores of a population or group.” Merriam Webster Continue reading
This is a classic archive photo from 1912 of a West Indian fumigator and one of the Mosquito Killers in the Canal Zone.
Today's typical Health Department official fumigating a house in Panama. Photo: La Estrella.
In case you are unaware, Panama is in the middle of a crisis situation over Dengue. As in the case of Panama over 108 years ago when the Silvermen, the Black Silver Roll workers from the West Indies who were recruited to clean up Panama before any serious construction could be continued on the Panama canal, it looks like Panama is returning to this alarming state of affairs in Public Health. Continue reading
Posted in Panama Canal, West Indian Panamanians
Tagged Dengue, fumigation, malaria, tropical fever, yellow-fever
The National Institute of Panama would have another Westindian Panamanian, another son of the Silver People from Calidonia, to display in the upcoming November patriotic festivities. For the adolescent that all the neighbors referred to as Juni, this would be a special event in which to collect the due admiration I thought I deserved. Continue reading
The Honorable Legislators who make up the Comission on Culture, Education and Sports.
This is me in only my preliminary arguments for our Silver People Law.
The Press, of course, insisted on an interview.
Our joy and sense of satisfaction received a giant boost this past Tuesday, August 2, 2011 when we answered a citation of the Permanent Commission on Education and Culture of the Asamblea Nacional de Panamá prepared to make our presentation in 1st Debate. Continue reading
As you can probably judge, we get many people visiting and commenting on all our web sites, especially The Silver People Chronicle. We get comments, for the most part, in support of what we are trying to do and others often join us in adding to the collective memory with their own experiences. Continue reading
Posted in Colon, Silver Roll Townships, West Indian Panamanians
Tagged Bamboo Lane, John P. Riley, Silver-City, street-fights
