Sentences with phrase «by sugar plantations»

One capuchin monkey inhabits only a single 200 - hectare slice of forest ringed by sugar plantations.

Located just eight minutes from the Kahului Airport on HANA HIGHWAY, Pa`ia (pronounced «pah - ee - ah») was dominated by a SUGAR PLANTATION for more than... Continue»

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Well, there was a nun from Brazil who heard of my arrival to a parish that had not had a priest before and came to welcome me very sweetly but also said, «By the way, it is forbidden for you to enter the sugar cane plantations of the Vicini family.»

John Marsh was assisted by his second son, George Marsh (d. 1859) in operating the islands sugar plantation.

This is augmented by the fact that in 2005, the Kittian govt paid the final sugar plantation incentives — without those, the sugar industry is dead.

Similarly missing are grabs by domestic companies in partnership with foreign ones, such as the sugar plantations that have obliterated Cambodian family rice farms to supply the Tate & Lyle sugar factory in the UK.

The aerial photo shows forest fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest in Northeastern Brazil (Mata Atlântica), surrounded by sugar cane plantations.

By 1800, that number had increased to 18 pounds as sugar plantations began to emerge.

What an awesome giveaway... I'd be relaxing by the beach with my husband and checking out the sugar plantations in St. Kitts if I won.

The former owner of a sugar plantation, he's been imprisoned by Fidel Castro for 20 years while she's emigrated to the United States.

Soufriere, founded by the French, was the original capital of St Lucia and retains an undeveloped, picturesque charm with the added benefits of access to Anse Chastanet beach and sights such as Diamond Botanical Gardens and Anse Mamin sugar plantation.

The sugar plantation consisted of 700 acres, worked mainly by immigrants, and was a working plantation with the last harvest in 1998.

If you're keen to find out more about the history of St John, the place to do it is at the Annaberg Plantation, the most intact sugar plantation ruins in the Virgin Islands and also run by the Virgin Islands National Park Service.

Formerly home to a 19th - century sugar plantation, Nail Bay was named the «Best Value in Virgin Gorda» by Travel + Leisure magazine, in 2007.

The resort is fringed by two white sand beaches on the site of an 18th - century sugar plantation — pure heaven on earth.

It is most remembered by local families for its pig farm, in which hogs were raised to feed the many sugar plantation workers.

For history lovers, how about reciting your vows in a sugar mill, in the shadow of a Light House, among the cannons of an old fort or at a plantation home surrounded by sugar cane fields?

Travel by zip line through the low, jungle - covered mountains of this region or visit local sugar cane, coffee and cocoa plantations.

«Counterpoints,» at El Museo, taking off from studies by anthropologist Fernando Ortiz on the impact of sugar and tobacco on Cuban culture, looks at the role of plantations and international trade.

The reenactment will unfold along a route where sugar plantations have been replaced by big box stores, trailer parks, refineries, and gated communities.

They were originally built in the 17th century by country folk who worked in the sugar plantations and didn't own the land on which their houses stood.