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This blog is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the little known but significant contribution of the West Indians in the culture and history of the Republic of Panama.
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I am cataloguing Ephraim S. Alphonse Reid’s Guaymí dictionary for my university library, currently credited to “Alphonse Reid, Ephraim S., 1896-”. It would be helpful for library catalogues to be able to say when he died. Did he die in 1990? Your biography doesn’t say this explicitly.
[Cataloguer, University of Oklahoma Libraries]
Greetings Lydia
I came across This vast wealth of information about Panama and Colon while searching for Black Panamanias for Black History Month. I am so amaze of all the information I am reading up on. It started with The Silver People Chronicles, when I click on a photo of the workers of the Panama Canal. It takes me back to my childhood in Colon, Rainbow City by my aunt Gladys. I don’t know why but I get so emotional reading some of the entries. My maternal grandparents came from Barbados, my father’s mother from Cartagena De Indias, Colombia and is Father from Saint Lucia. Both my parents were born in Panama. I am so happy to find both sites. Thank You for a job well done.
Denia,
I’m glad you found us and many of our readers express the same feelings of “getting emotional” just reading about those times back when Panama’s society was more imbued with West Indian culture and flavor and, yes, a child’s Paradise. Thanks for leaving your comment.
How do I make a financial contribution? I could not find any way on your web site to do so via a credit card.
Thank you for contacting us Mr. Samuels. We’ve sent you a private e-mail with instructions to do so. Again, thank you.
I am interested in obtaining information on the National Black Ethnic Day and events. I am interesed in visiting Panama during the events. Please forward any information you may have for 2012. I am interested in Black cultural events in the Americas. I have visisted your beautiful country a few years ago and would like to return to learn more about Afro Panamanians. Thank You!
Mr. Davis,
If what you are referring to is the “Día de La Etnia Negra” in May, you can read this article if you haven’t already done so. The official date is May 30 but during the entire week previous there are many activities throughout Colon and Panama City.
My grandfather James Glass Cyrus was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Colon in 1933. He was a pharmasist formerly from Grenada and had worked with the American on the Canal, and was a Master of the Masons Lodge. His two children Sybil Beluah Glass Cyrus and a son are also buried there. Can any one tell me how to find out in what condition there graves may be in.
Linda,
Sorry to be so late in answering. We are really busy with our Silver People Law project and also our Chronicle page. First, if you didn’t already know, Mount Hope is one of the key “Silver” cemeteries on The Silver People Law and it is with good reason. If Corozal Cemetery is in bad shape, Mount Hope is in terrible condition. The times we have gone on field work over there to take pictures of graves and just panoramic pics of the cemetery we have been prevented by the tall grass and the inherent danger in going in it. This was so even though we had to pay three men to hack down the grass and clear the way of possible snakes, and other dangerous hazards. It is truly an odyssey going in there to do anything. So, we didn’t get as many pictures as we would have liked in this vast graveyard. This is the reason for our Foundation and the Law- to have some kind of control over the restoration and preservation of this heritage cemetery. We do, however, charge a fee for looking for specific graves and if found taking a picture. Money goes to Foundation work.