THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE

bridging the Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean Region and the Amerikas'.

SOME FACTS - Cross Border Trade:

The Panama Canal and Suez Canal

In the 1800’s workers from the Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean Region and the Amerikas' held many different jobs building the worlds' mostly used zones for global commerce and trade; the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal. . It is recorded that laborers were from

Yamaye (Jamaica), Ichirouganaim(Barbados),

Panama, Kai-ri (Trinidad), Tobago and Hewanorra (St Lucia). Arriving from West

Afru-ika included; Guinea - Bissau, Cameroon, the Congo Basin, Angola, Senegambia, Liberia. West of Ivory Coast; the Gold Coast. East of the Ivory Coast; Nagha (Ghana), and from the Amerikas; Cartagena de Indias, Havana, Puerto Rico and many more locations.

Today, The Panama Canal connects North and South Amerika; it is amongst the most iconic infrastructures in the world. While on the other side of the Karibbean Islands; The Suez Canal flows from the Red Sea in Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Afru - ika Atlas from Asia. Both man-made canals took over 10 years to build and now allows for a more direct shipping lane decreasing the time for cross border trading. (Resource Video Eclectic Theories - 24 hour time-lapse video of Mira Flores Locks - Panama Canal 2009).