By Lucy Steward Since its establishment just over 25 years ago, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has contributed significantly to regional co-operation in education. In all aspects of its operation, CXC has brought together teachers, university and college lecturers, subject specialists and resource persons from the public and private sectors to participate in activities… Continue reading CARICOM In Education: CXC A Success
By The Integrationist Team Everybody has heard of the popular Dancehall styles, along with the likes of the Mambo and Limbo, however there are a whole range of traditional dances from the many islands of the Caribbean, Jonkonnu, Tambu, Oreisha, and Shango to name a few. Traditional Caribbean Dance These dances have their roots… Continue reading Traditional Caribbean Dance
By The Integrationist Functional co-operation predates the Caribbean Community. There has been contact between the various peoples of the Region in various ways and in different forms. For example, organisations which brought the civil servants of the Region and lawyers have existed long before functional co-operation formalised this kind of exchange. These exchanges have… Continue reading Functional Cooperation and the Caribbean: An Introduction
By The Integrationist The Member States of the Caribbean Community are enjoined by the Treaty of Chaguaramas to present a common front to the external world, both in terms of politics and economics. While the Community’s record in this regard is not unblemished, there is much to be proud of. The Community and its… Continue reading Foreign Policy and the Caribbean: An Introduction
By The Integrationist By the time the Caribbean Community got down to work on giving practical effect to its stated purpose of fulfilling “within the shortest possible time the hopes and aspirations of the Caribbean Territories…” by means of Economic Integration, forces were gathering which would challenge its very existence. Indeed, the birth of the… Continue reading Economic Integration: An Introduction
In Memoriam: Dr. Keith Audley Alexander Ellis (1935–2024) Keith Audley Alexander Ellis, FRSC, DFil (University of Havana). CD (Jamaica), Professor Emeritus University of Toronto (Spanish and Portuguese), passed away peacefully on December 28, 2024, at the age of 89, after a life devoted to his family, learning, teaching and social justice through culture, especially literary… Continue reading In Memoriam: Professor Keith Ellis
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Politics In an Island State is a well-researched, lucid, and fascinating story of Jamaica’s struggle for development over decades, revealed through the biography of Wills Ogilvy Isaacs, a towering pioneer in the annals of our evolution as a sovereign democratic nation-state. The traditional approach to the chronicle of that period has tended to focus… Continue reading Remarks for Book Launch “Politics in an Island State: Wills O. Isaacs Jamaica’s Struggle for Development”
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Each year the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus through the Office of Student Services and Development hosts an orientation filled with activities for new students entering the university. The orientation is planned and executed with the intention to sensitize, edify and entertain students about the university community, particularly about the extra-curricular… Continue reading The PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Advocacy at UWI Orientation 2024