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Presents a profile of aspects of the lexicon and of the morphosyntax of the speech of Jamaican three-year-olds across the island in their first year of entry into the public school system. It is intended to serve as a resource for creolists and acquisitionists, for academics in education, for teachers of literacy and language education, and for tertiary-level linguistics and education students.

Chronicles the development of the popular and contentious Indian radio media subsector in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago from global historical perspectives, and explores its implications for culture and national sentiment in the modern context. This work acknowledges the complex discourses surrounding ethnic and cultural identities in this diverse Caribbean nation.

A gifted young scholar clings desperately to part-time employment at a Caribbean university. Then, a post opens up on an unknown offshore campus in Portmore, Jamaica. Into this harsh yet delicate terrain ventures Candace Clarke, bent on taking root in an academic world. This tale of inner and outer landscapes marks a new departure in Caribbean fiction.

Examines five elections in Trinidad and Tobago over a ten-year period from 2000 to 2010 and, on the basis of this, works through some critical issues related to media and politics in the Caribbean. This is a pioneering study, with solid research and insightful analysis.

The inspiring stories from seventeen seasoned professionals along with the supporting pieces by the editors in this volume will resonate with current principals, and educators across the spectrum will appreciate the experiences shared in this volume. This collection is an ideal resource for the aspiring principal as it provides the framework for making the transition to a leadership role.

Alfred H. Mendes was a prominent member of the Beacon group of intellectuals whose aim in the 1930s was the development and promotion of a Trinidad-centred literature. Alfred. H. Mendes: comprises thirteen stories, and articles and letters from the 1920s to the 1960s. It is supported by an introduction, explanatory notes and a short glossary.

"The Man Who Ran Away" is a collection of twelve stories with an introduction and short glossary of Trinidadian Creole words and phrases.

Small, developing economies are particularly aware of the challenges of the increasing integration of markets for capital, labour, products and information, and thus keen to improve their competitiveness. Based on research from the Caribbean, this book explores the possibilities.

Offers a unique exploration of the quality assurance landscape in higher education in the Commonwealth Caribbean. It celebrates the "coming of age" of the quality assurance movement in the region by tracing the main currents of development in internal and external quality assurance.

Presents a wide-ranging collection of essays by academics in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, each with a unique perspective on the revolution and its effects.

Explores the historical, conceptual, theoretical and practical dimensions of school-based assessment (SBA) in a public examination. Griffith offers the history and context for the exploration of the issues of SBA in a public examination and reviews the history and concept of public examinations and the evolution and mandate of the Caribbean Examinations Council.

Landslides and flooding in the Caribbean are destructive, endemic forces that destroy homes, businesses and schools, cost millions of dollars annually and kill hundreds of men, women and children. This book promotes a holistic approach for managing geohazards in the region. It emphasizes a preventive, proactive approach rather than a reactive one.

Highlights how current research is addressing the consequences of change, forced by global warming and climate change, and driven by globalization and population growth. The book takes forward issues of regional and community vulnerability, and focuses on the search for solutions in terms of adaptation, resilience and societal transformation.

This is the first full-length biography of George James Christian. Originally from Dominica, Christian qualified as a barrister-at-law in London, participated in the first pan-African conference and migrated to the Gold Coast in 1902 where he made his home and developed a complex extended family.

Inward Yearnings: Jamaica's Journey to Nationhood is a pioneering case study of an Anglo-Caribbean island's search for a racial selfhood, its nervous embrace of its African heritage and ultimately a nationalism that reflected those inner longings.

Caribbean firms cope with international competition both in their small domestic economies, and as they extend their operations outside their home countries. This volume explores their struggles and successes in fifteen case studies developed from interviews with Caribbean firms at key decision points in their internationalizing processes.

Buttressed by historical documentary sources, and by painstaking linguistic researches, Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a re-issue and thematic expansion of her classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras.

"First published in 2010 as 'Exodus!: l'histoire du retour des Rastarfariens en Ethiopie'. This edition has been translated and published under licence from Editions L'Harmattan"--Title page verso.

Founded in 1769 as a new port town on Jamaica's north coast, Falmouth expanded dramatically in the decades around 1800. Spanning from the foundation of the town in 1769 to the opening of the cruise ship terminal in 2008, this book explores the range of architecture built by Jamaicans and others in the making of this extraordinary town.

The contributors to thi volume address topics and issues of colonial and postcolonial citizenship, identity and belonging; sovereignty and the body politic and unresolved class and other contradictions of the Haitian Revolution, Commonwealth Caribbean societies, Cuba, and the non-independent territories of Puerto Rico and the Netherlands Antilles, the French Antilles, and the Cayman Islands.

An exploration of the land settlement schemes of Guyana over 160 years. It analyzes the interrelationships of conflicting forces in the political economy of Guyana, which frustrated attempts at empowerment of the peasantry. The impact of these schemes on social differentiation is also discussed.

A book about breathing new life into texts from the past. It demonstrates that meaning in the universe of art is not fixed but volatile contradictory unsettled and sometimes unsettling.

Provides an in-depth survey of over six decades of instruction in written discourse offered to Creole-influenced Jamaican students - students who are influenced by Jamaica's Creole language but who are not all Creole-speaking - on the Mona Campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI).

Investigates the relatively little-studied but growing field of the experiences of East Indians in the Caribbean from their arrival in 1838 to the end of indentureship in 1920. By utilizing an analytical perspective offered by writers on the subject of the subaltern, this work departs from the historical approach and offers a fresh interpretation.

Presents diverse perspectives on forensics within the Caribbean by focusing on disaster victim identification protocols, forensic anthropology, computer forensics, geospatial technologies, shoe-print identification, suicide hangings and forensics linguistics.