New Caribbean Book: “Wide Sargasso Sea”
Caribbean culture and history From crossref-it.info The naming of the West Indies Wide Sargasso Sea is set on two Caribbean islands, Jamaica and a ‘honeymoon island’. This is not named but is very like Dominica, where Jean Rhys was born….
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January events at Camana Bay
Camana Bay, Grand Cayman (Thursday 8 January): From gaining a stamp for India in your culinary passport to sleeping in and serving up a homemade brunch to cheering on stand-up paddlers as they race across the finish line to dining…
Tributes paid to the late John McNamee [was due to visit son in Cayman Islands]
From Leinster Express John McNamee lived for books, and lived for his family, according to friends who paid tributes following his sudden death last Sunday January 3. Portlaoise menswear trader Alan Flynn was stunned. “I am absolutely distraught, I had…
Mystery of Oscar Wilde’s wife’s death solved
From Irish Central The 116-year-old mystery surrounding the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife may now finally be solved. The grandson of the Irish writer believes he has found the reason his grandmother died tragically at the age of 40 just…
Maroon Consciousness Magazine ready for download
Maroon Consciousness Magazine is created to provide the African Diaspora with constructive news about itself and resources on the growing Maroon Consciousness Movement. Maroon Consciousness Magazine is available as a PDF file: Maroon Consciousness Magazine Vol 2 at: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a29a01b0627f5211c036b985f/files/Maroon_Consciousness_Magazine_Vol_2.pdf If…
Caribbean Philosophical Association announces the 2015 recipients of its awards
The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2015 recipients of the association’s awards for contributions to philosophical thought, literature, and the new awards for beginning scholars and graduate students: The Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award Grace Lee…
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Lotteries and public policy in United States and Commonwealth Caribbean Law: scrutinizing the success of lotteries as a voluntary and ‘painless’ tax
By Stephen J. Leacock Barry University – Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law University of Miami Inter-American Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2013 Abstract: This article explores the remarkable success of lotteries as a voluntary and “painless” tax in…
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New Year’s Day triplets for Cayman family Caymanians, Mark and Sheena Thompson, have three additions to their family when triplets were born, Alexa, Jenna and Emma. The babies weighed in at only 3lbs. 12ozs, 3lbs. 7ozs, and 3lbs 2ozs, respectively…
30 Books that changed the course of history
By Megan Willett From Business Insider Every reader knows that a book can change your life. But what about the lives of an entire generation? Can a book change the future? Miriam Tuliao, assistant director of central collection development at…
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Things that matter: Our history, culture and the museum journal
By Sir Henry Fraser From Barbados Advocate “What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” (C.L.R.James, famous Trinidadian intellectual and writer) In Beyond a boundary, that great book by C.L.R. James, which every West Indian should read, his…
