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399 p, Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.
Intergovernmental Regional Committee for the Major Project in the Field of Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Meeting (3rd : 1989 Guatemala, Guatemala) (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
December, 1988
Published:
Santiago, Chile: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and Caribbean.
Location:
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ERIC Number: ED348249, 82 p, Four articles comprise this issue of the bulletin. "The Situation of Teachers in the English-Speaking Caribbean" (A. B. Alleyne) examines the position of Caribbean teachers with respect to salaries, social security, the teacher shortage, the adequacy of educational objectives and policies, preparation for the profession, and further education. "The Illiteracy in the Group of the 8: Implementation of a Program of Experiences Exchange" (Ministry of Education, Peru) proposes areas of cooperation between the eight countries of the Acapulco Agreement (Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela) in their efforts to eradicate illiteracy by the year 2000. "The State and Education in Latin America" (J. Casassus) identifies and discusses some of the issues regarding the link between education and the state in Latin America. "Towards a Mathematics Education Thinking: Contributions of Chilean Research at the Basic and Middle Levels" (P. Montero; H. Gonzalez) presents an overview of Chilean mathematics education at its basic and middle levels, and urges the development of a national thinking in the field. The final part of the bulletin contains information about the activities that the Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean has carried out in the region. (JB)
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396 p., Foreign interests have dominated the economic development of the Caribbean since the first arrival of Europeans in the region five centuries ago. From the plantation system and slavery to the exploitation of oil and bauxite by the multinational corporations, the history of the Caribbean people is one of dependency and impoverishment. For the great majority, past and present--slaves, indentured laborers, peasants and workers, the unemployed--the region's subjection to external control has meant systematic hardship and social injustice. in this survey of economic development in the Caribbean, Clive Thomas traces the history of colonialism and neocolonialism from the perspective of this majority.
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278 p, The liberalism of eighteenth century Trinidad, epitomized in the love between the black heroine and white hero, provides the ideal microcosm wherein Belgrave works out her humanitarian concerns that ultimately take on universal dimensions. (Vision Magazine)
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168 p, "Sander contends that the sporadic nature of literary output in the island before the late 1920s can be explained in part as the consequence of Trinidad's linguistic diversity and its rapidly changing patterns of settlement." (Amazon)
