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Mayer Matalon

Author : Diana Thorburn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761871152
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Mayer Matalon written by Diana Thorburn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Mayer Matalon, an influential Jewish Jamaican, traces his path from humble origins to innovator, public servant, political insider, and leader of his family’s conglomerate, from the 1940s to the end of the twentieth century. Mayer Matalon was not born into the Jewish-Jamaican elite who traced their ancestry in Jamaica back hundreds of years and who were successful entrepreneurs, prominent intellectuals, and politicians. Mayer Matalon’s father, Joseph, was one a handful of Jews who came to Jamaica in the wave of turn-of-the-century Levantine emigration, and his mother, Florizel Madge Matalon, was a young, beautiful, poor Jewish-Jamaican girl. A failed businessman, Joseph’s legacy was eleven children who created their own legacy in Jamaican business and politics. The Matalon siblings built a conglomerate, venturing into businesses and experimenting with business models that had never been tried in Jamaica, enjoying success for the first twenty years, struggling to retain viability for the next twenty years, and fighting to keep the family together throughout. Matalon rose to wealth and prominence through his talent for numbers, his innovative ideas, and his extraordinary emotional intelligence. He was one of Prime Minister Michael Manley’s closest confidantes, in and out of power, and he advised every Jamaican premier and prime minister from Norman Manley to Bruce Golding, with only one exception. That one exception resulted in a sidelining that had a blowback that set Jamaica back decades and that sealed his family’s business’s fate. This is a story of race, class, and power in postcolonial Jamaica. Through the lens of Mayer Matalon’s life, the book outlines Jamaica’s political and economic trajectory over the sixty years before and after independence. This biography peels back the surface layers of the many citations and public accolades, and goes beyond the often uninformed speculation on the Matalons’ beginnings, revealing in rich detail the unusual life of an extraordinary Jamaican.

Chancellor, I Present ...

Author : Edward Baugh
Publisher : Canoe Pr
ISBN 13 : 9789768125514
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Chancellor, I Present ... written by Edward Baugh and published by Canoe Pr. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader, I present . . . the humour, craft and eloquence of the University of the West Indies (Mona) Orator, Professor Edward Baugh! Our man of words at Mona is a distinguished poet and actor, a master of gesture, tone and tempo. It is his mission to write and perform the convocation citations to honorary graduates. This book is a spirited collection of speeches delivered between November 1985 and April 1998. The magic of the voice on the page conjures images and sounds in virtual reality. Chancellor, I Present . . . is a public record of one of the most rewarding occasions in the University calender - the drama of convocation. The subject of this book - the honorary graduates - inspire the orator's artistry: singer, statesman, soldier, actor, politician, diplomat, cleric, educator, entrepreneur. The accomplishments of these exceptional men and women are lauded here in grand style. The opportune publication of this book, much requested over the years, coincides with the extraordinary convocation to mark the University's fiftieth anniversary. It is a most fitting symbol of the intellectual vigour of our celebrated institution.

My Journey with Thoroughbreds

Author : Howard Hamilton
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543756182
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book My Journey with Thoroughbreds written by Howard Hamilton and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica was captured from Spain by the British in 1655, and by 1752, the island was already developing an enviable reputation for breeding race horses. The book offers a tour d'horizon of thoroughbred horse racing in Jamaica from those early days to the present, presenting its problems and its possibilities from the point of view of one of the country's most seasoned experts. A special feature of the publication is the Jamaica Derby Gallery. In 2020, the Jamaica Derby will be run for the 100th consecutive year. Race statistics, and with only very few exceptions, a commentary on the race and a representative image are presented, providing for lovers of the sport a unique and fascinating record of a century of first class racing in Jamaica.

Memoirs

Author : George E. Eaton CD PhD LLD
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663201412
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs written by George E. Eaton CD PhD LLD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The value of this Memoir lies in the objective presentation of several key historical events in specific countries where the author lived and worked, ranging from Canada through Africa and Europe to the Caribbean. George Eaton, Ph.D., was a founding faculty member of York University, Toronto, and at his retirement was Professor Emeritus & Senior Scholar. He was a man known for his clear, objective perspective, and his unshakeable sense of integrity and honour. This Memoir offers extraordinary insights into the inner workings and behind-the-scene activities of post-colonial African and Caribbean economies and their emerging national identities. Eaton’s seminal works entitled The Development of Political Unionism (1961) and Alexander Bustamante & Modern Jamaica (1975) have both been critically acclaimed.

Caribbean Basin Free Trade Agreements Act

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Basin Free Trade Agreements Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization

Author : Colin Clarke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137540788
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization written by Colin Clarke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed picture of Jamaica before and after independence. A 1961 journal sheds light on the political and social context before independence, while a 1968 journal shows how independence dissolved dissident forces and identifies the origins of Jamaica's current two party politics.

Wounded Cities

Author : Jane Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181650
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Wounded Cities written by Jane Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration and renewal. As with the WTC, from time to time these cycles are severely ruptured by a sudden, unpredictable event. In the wake of recent terrorist activities, this timely book explores how urban populations are affected by wounds inflicted through violence, civil wars, overbuilding, drug trafficking, and the collapse of infrastructures, as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes. Mexico City, New York, Beirut, Belfast, Bangkok and Baghdad are just a few examples of cities riddled with problems that undermine, on a daily basis, the quality of urban life. What does it mean for urban dwellers when the infrastructure of a city collapses transport, communication grids, heat, light, roads, water, and sanitation? What are the effects of foreign investment and huge construction projects on urban populations and how does this change the look and character of a city? How does drug trafficking intersect with class, race, and gender, and what impact does it have on vulnerable urban communities? How do political corruption and mafia networks distort the built environment? Drawing on in-depth case studies from across the globe, this book answers these intriguing questions through its rigorous consideration of changing global and national contexts, social movements, and corrosive urban events. Adopting a grass roots up approach, it places emphasis on peoples experiences of uneven development and inequality, their engagement with memory in the face of continual change, and the relevance of political activism to bettering their lives. It is especially attentive to the historical interaction of particular cities with wider political and economic forces, as these interactions have shaped local governance over time.

Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy

Author : Randolph B. Persaud
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791449196
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy written by Randolph B. Persaud and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that marginalized states and peoples are capable of initiating their own foreign policy agendas.

Banking - Ghana and Biafra to Bermuda

Author : Calum Johnston
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789017920
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Banking - Ghana and Biafra to Bermuda written by Calum Johnston and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calum Johnston commenced his banking career in Scotland, at the age of seventeen, at a time when the duties of a ‘boy’ in the bank included sweeping the floor and mixing the powder to make ink for the counter ink wells. In this volume he recounts banking practices long since forgotten. Remarkably, the author became a bank manager in the Gold Coast at the age of twenty-one. After moving to Nigeria he experienced the Biafra civil war during which he was arrested at gun point and interrogated more than once, having previously evacuated his family and other bank wives and children to the safety of Lagos. After joining a Canadian bank, the author worked on Wall Street, established the bank’s first office in Hong Kong, managed branches in Malaysia and Jamaica and was responsible for lending throughout the Caribbean and Canada. For eleven years he was responsible for his bank’s operations in over forty countries. After retiring Johnston was appointed President and CEO of a bank in Bermuda where he and his team produced outstanding results. He finished his working life in St. Maarten in the Caribbean

Democratic Socialism in Jamaica

Author : Evelyne Huber Stephens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886074
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Socialism in Jamaica written by Evelyne Huber Stephens and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work includes a detailed historical account of the Manley years, focusing on shifting relations between contending social forces and on the interaction between economics and politics. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Caribbean and the Wider World

Author : Alister McIntyre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786730839
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Caribbean and the Wider World written by Alister McIntyre and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, McIntyre temporarily left behind his academic career as a developmental economist at the University of the West Indies to take up appointment as Secretary-General of CARICOM (the Caribbean Community and Common Market). He subsequently held positions as the Director of the Commodities Division of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) and then Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD in both Geneva and New York. In 1988 McIntyre returned to the Caribbean as Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and, on his retirement in 1998, he assumed the post of Chief Technical Advisor at the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery. This book outlines McIntyre's extraordinary life and wide-ranging international career in diplomacy, politics and academia. It provides key perspectives on the development of Caribbean regional government and international institutions in the twentieth century.

Crisis in the Caribbean

Author : Fitzroy Ambursley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040088902
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Crisis in the Caribbean written by Fitzroy Ambursley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, this anthology was the first to integrate the political experiences of the Central American mainland and the Caribbean archipelago and provides analyses of some of the most explosive events of the 1970s and 80s in this region, including the Jonestown massacre, the failures of the Burnham regime in Guyana, the tumultuous elections in Jamaica in 1980, the army officers’ coup d’état in Suriname, the revolutions in Grenada and Nicaragua and the revolutionary upheaval in El Salvador. It also shows how the regional crisis affected such prosperous countries as Trinidad and Tobago and such politically stable regimes in St. Vincent and the French colonies of Martinique and Guadelope. It also discusses the development of the first Socialist regime in the region, Cuba

British Caribbean Who, What, why

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book British Caribbean Who, What, why written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Development Administration in the Caribbean

Author : J. Walker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599060
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Development Administration in the Caribbean written by J. Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and historical account of both theory and practice, this book attempts to make sense of the loose and little understood field of development administration. The book focuses on development administration over forty years and identifies key attributes of public bureaucracy which are associated with bureaucratic performance. The associations between bureaucracy's attributes and performance are employed in explaining development differences between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago over the period 1960-1995. Associations are explored at the macro level through aggregate data and at the micro level through fascinating case studies of the Industrial Development Corporations (IDCs), associated with economic growth, and the Ministry of Education, associated with women's empowerment. The study establishes clear patterns of associations in the empirical cases and explores the implications of these findings for the theory of development administration.

The History of Mining and Geological Surveys in Jamaica

Author : Suresh Bhalai
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031426045
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The History of Mining and Geological Surveys in Jamaica written by Suresh Bhalai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining and geological survey work in Jamaica goes back several hundred years and was initiated by the Europeans when they colonized the Island. The year 2019 marked 160 years since the first Government-commissioned Geological Survey of Jamaica. This is one of the oldest survey activity of this type in the World! This book seeks to commemorate this heritage. It is one of the first books of its kind examining the evolution of the mineral sector and geological survey work of Jamaica, set in the framework of the Country's history of over 500 years. The Reader will explore a relatively unfamiliar side of the Country's development, linked to popular historical stories that shaped the Nation. The information presented are mostly documented in dated academic literature that are not gauged for a wide audience. This book however, aims to make this information accessible for a wider readership such as students, amateur scientist, non-professionals or anyone who wishes to learn about the rich history and heritage, and the contributions to national development from Europe and much later, North America.

Globalization and Neoliberalism

Author : Thomas Klak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 058508078X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Neoliberalism written by Thomas Klak and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do recent trends toward globalization affect the Caribbean, a region whose suppliers, production, markets, and politics have been globalized for centuries? What is the status of neoliberal development policy in the Caribbean, where the rewards for belt tightening and economic opening have been slow in coming? How have Caribbean policymakers and citizens responded to and resisted the pressures to conform to the new rules of the global economy? By examining these questions through the lens of political economy, this volume explores the interaction among development, trade, foreign policy, the environment, tourism, gender relations, and migration. With its global implications, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars from all disciplines who are concerned with the impact of development and globalization.

Archiving Caribbean Identity

Author : John Aarons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000590712
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Archiving Caribbean Identity written by John Aarons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the "Caribbeanization" of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats. Interpreting records in the broadest sense, the 15 chapters in this volume explore a wide variety of records that represent new archival interpretations. The book is split into two parts, with the first part focusing on record forms that are not generally considered "archival" in traditional Western practice. The second part explores more "traditional" archival collections and demonstrates how these collections are analysed and presented from the perspective of Caribbean peoples. As a whole, the volume suggests how colonial records can be repurposed to surface Caribbean narratives. Reflecting on the unique challenges faced by developing countries as they approach their archives, the volume considers how to identify and archive records in the forms and formats that reflect the postcolonial and decolonized Caribbean, how to build an archive of the people that documents contemporary society and reflects Caribbean memory, and how to repurpose the colonial archives so that they assist the Caribbean in reclaiming its history. Archiving Caribbean Identity demonstrates how non-textual cultural traces function as archival records and how folk-centred perspectives disrupt conventional understandings of records. The book should thus be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of archives, memory, culture, history, sociology, and the colonial and postcolonial experience.