Inside The Caribbean Green Book, A Guide To The Black-Owned West Indies

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Jamaica made over $4 billion in tourism alone. This is just one of the 13 independent countries that make up the Fiona Compton and Jadine Yarde are the co-founders of the Caribbean Green Book. Compton, who is also the founder of Know Your Caribbean, a platform dedicated to educating people about lesser-known Caribbean history, shared how the Caribbean Green Book was named. “ It was inspired by the Green Book, which was for quote-unquote Negro drivers [during] Jim Crow to be able to find Black-owned businesses or safe spaces when they were driving through the United States," she says. "It was also something that helped to keep money within the community. So that is what the Caribbean Green Book is because up to 80 percent of hotels are foreign-owned.”...more