Recently added articles from Caribbean Quarterly:
FOREWORD
Sep 01, 2008; ... Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 55, No. 3, September, 2008 - celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the University of the West Indies salutes the work and research of our scientists who, like the poets and artists have also celebrated the unique and indigenous heritage of our island region. The first ...
GUEST EDITORIAL
Sep 01, 2008; ... This issue of the Caribbean Quarterly takes the opportunity of the sixtieth anniversary of the University of the West Indies to publish scientific papers and recollections covering almost the whole period of the university's existence. At the same time, it covers a range of scientific ...
Science For The People*
Sep 01, 2008; ... The Management of Science and Technology in the West Indies I believe that the creativity of scientists and technologists is an important force affecting the lives of people in all societies. To some people the scientist is a mad devil creating engines of war and environmental ...
A Clear Human Footprint in the Coral Reefs of the Caribbean*
Sep 01, 2008; ... I Introduction The human demographic expansion and associated increases in fishing, nutrient loadings and ocean warming, compounded with environmental variables, have been broadly debated to explain the increasing degradation of coral reefs worldwide (Hughes 1994; Hoegh-Guldberg 1999; ...
Interviews with Professor Hugh Wynter
Sep 01, 2008; ... Interview I Joan Meade (JM) and Pansy Hamilton (PH) are the interviewers JM This is January 17, 2007, the date of our first interview. PH The thing is that we think that there is a human interest story in the role that you played in the development of the ...
A journey through the Medicinal Plant Industry of the Caribbean highlighting Mona's Contribution
Sep 01, 2008; ... The Caribbean hosted 18,081,199 visitors in 2007, and this figure does not include those who took vacations within their own islands. For Jamaica, more visitors came in 2007 than there were residents. While a few of these trips are taken for business, most are taken for pleasure. In fact, ...
The Climate Studies Group Mona
Sep 01, 2008; ... Introduction The Climate Studies Group Mona (CSGM) was launched in 1994, in the Department of Physics, the University of the West Indies, Mona campus. The initiative was set in motion by Professor the Honourable A. Anthony Chen, O. M., Professor of Applied Physics. During the formative ...
FOREWORD
Mar 01, 2008; ... This year the University of the West Indies celebrates its 60th Anniversary. It is appropriate that Caribbean Quarterly, should seek to commemorate such signal event with the dedication of all the year's issues surrounding the act of "becoming", for this is the heartbeat of the survival strategy ...
History, Fable and Myth in The Caribbean and Guianas
Mar 01, 2008; ... It occurred to me as 1 contemplated this series of talks entitled History, Fable And Myth that it may prove illuminating to look first of all at J. J. Thomas's rebuttal of the 19th century historian Froude in his book Froudacity. Froudacity was first published in 1889 and has been re-printed by ...
A Place Called Home
Mar 01, 2008; ... my mother is dying each day a piece of her brain goes away where does it go? where will I look for it? in the navy blue sky dark and tight as my aunt's secretary's skirt! in the holes the stars leave on the sky spread under the mango treecool ...
Tomb of A Hero: NWM
Mar 01, 2008; ... Inconvenient man, spare, angular dreamer, the ascetic of the hustings, they, could hardly wait to structure round you grey sarcophagus and even as if the stream of a bright purpose, once corralled, once domestically cradled, drew beatitude from ...
Negus
Mar 01, 2008; ... it it it It is not it it it it is not it is not it is not it is not enough it is not enough to be free of the red white and blue of the drag, of the dragon it is not it is ...
Sometimes, in The Middle of the Story
Mar 01, 2008; ... (for the drowned Africans of the Middle Passage) Sometimes in the middle ofthe story something move outside the house, like it could be the wind - but is not the wind and the story-teller hesitate so slight you hardly notice it, and the ...
Sweat and the Lash
Mar 01, 2008; ... Lash, sweat and the lash. The sun was up early And found the Black barefoot, His scarred body naked, In the field. Lash, Sweat and the lash. The wind went screaming by: "Your hands are two black blossoms!" His blood ...
Passage
Mar 01, 2008; ... (an early East Indian immigrant) in boat they cutting a tin a round and they have number in it and they have twine and tie a round neck so much a so much so much a so much for B.G. so much a so much so much a so much for ...
I Shall Remember
Mar 01, 2008; ... And so 1 leave this island This island that I have loved. This people that I have loved. But I shall remember always The beauty of my people And the beauty of my land. And in strange lands where the fog presses down And even the ...
Rex Nettleford Cultural Conference U.W.I. Opening Address
Mar 01, 2008; ... Dream is ultimately the foundation of all reality, just as faith is the breath of life in every believer. And that is why I think it appropriate to begin by tracing a geography of voices, which celebrate a curious paradox of fortune that Rex Nettleford describes as 'the plurality of forms ...
Creolization in the Making of the Americas*
Mar 01, 2008; ... Inscribed in the American landscape, opening up through it, living in and manifsting it, there is a "civilizational region," real but long unnoticed, perhaps because it was balkanized by occidental colonizers. This is the region of the "plantation system;' composed of the West Indies and the ...
No Word Does You Justice
Mar 01, 2008; ... A tremor stronger than the cupola, Companionship more intense than solitude, Conversation much richer than silence, Reality stranger than a dream, Truth of the day and night, Song without end, sky coloured in flags, Reason for being ...
Return
Mar 01, 2008; ... We too shall come down to the sea, Past the gay green gardens ofthe heart's munificence, Past the lichened pathway where the rust Stains the stone and the forked tree stands desolate, Down to the sands Where the shattered bones of leviathan Are ...