CARICOM Perspective # 25

CARICOM Perspective, 25, May/June, 1984.(Three Copies)

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Contents:

ABOUT THE REGION:
Adding the Pluses.
At your Service.
Regional Calendar.
Meetings.
Jamaican Budget.
When Food Ministers Meet.

FEATURES:
Secretary General’s Comments.
In Pursuit of Trade.
CARICOM meets in The Bahamas.
CARICOM Leaders for the 5th Summit
In the Wake of the Generals.
Freeing up Agri-trade.
Coming of Age.

GUEST COLUMN(s) – Two Views on the Political Economy.

Denis Pantin
Alister McIntyre

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Grenada in the Twilight Zone, by Anthony Gonzales.

PAST & PRESENT
On Federation, by C.L.R. James.
Caribbean Emancipators – Eugenio Maria de Hostos (publication by the G.B.U., Public Relations Division, Office of the Prime Minister, Trinidad & Tobago, 1976).

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.

Cuba for Beginners

del Río García, Eduardo (Rius), Cuba for Beginners, New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970.

Rius was the pseudonym of Eduardo del Río García, the internationally acclaimed Mexican caricaturist and editorial cartoonist whose innovative work established a new field in comic strips: the political and documentary cartoon-book.

Boletín de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, RESEÑAS / BOOK REVIEWS, No. 25 (separata)

RESEÑAS / BOOK REVIEWS (separata, pp. 78 – 95), Boletín de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, No. 25, diciembre, 1978. [Disponible en línea.]

Cien empresas innovadoras en Iberoamérica

Waissbluth, Mario, Eduardo Testart & Rudolf Buitelaar, Cien empresas innovadoras en Iberoamérica, Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universidad de Valparaíso,Valparaíso, 1992.

Parcialmente disponible en línea.

El Estudio que se presenta en este informe se realizó con la colaboracion técnica y financiera del gobierno de España a través del Programa de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo (CYTED-D), La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe de las Naciones Unidas (CEPAL), así como con el apoyo de la Comisión Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (COLCYT), la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) y de las siguientes instituciones responsables de la ejecución del estudio en sus respectivos países….

Los Estudios de Posgrado en México

Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Enseñanza Superior, Los Estudios de Posgrado en México, (catálogo), México, D.F.: ANUIES, 24 de junio de 1985.

The National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions is a non-governmental organization which includes 191 public and private higher education institutions in Mexico. The association is involved in the development of programs, plans and national policies for higher education, as well as establishing agencies aimed at fostering the development of higher education in the country.

All About Aruba

Aruba Tourist Bureau, All About Aruba, (Brochure), February, 1964.

Available online.

Lure of the Caribbean: Virgin Islands to Trinidad

Czolowski, Ted, James D. Sharp & Donald Stainsby, Lure of the Caribbean: Virgin Islands to Trinidad, Vancouver, Canada: Quest Travel Books, Ltd., 1968.

Available online.

From the author’s bio:

Ted Czolowski has been a Canadian since 1946. Born in Poland, he was still a student at the College of Architecture in Lwow when the German army invaded his homeland in 1939. For six years he fought as a guerilla in the Polish resistance before escaping to Italy and joining the British Army. Once in Vancouver after the war, his earlier interest in color, line and design was revived and he turned to photography to express it.

Colloque d’avril 1971 sur L'Enseignement des Sciences Sociales dans la Caraïbe

Les Cahiers du CERAG [Centre d'études régionales Antilles-Guyane] Colloque d’avril 1971 sur L'Enseignement des sciences sociales dans la Caraïbe, Fort-de-France, No. 25, quatrième trimestre, 1971.

Liste de Textes:

Luis Nieves Falcón – Puerto Rico: Un cas d'application transculturelle des Sciences Sociales

Lloyd Best – Le développement de l'enseignement des sciences économiques

Archie Singham – Notes sur la théorie de la subordination et de la libération

Jean Benoist – Enseignement et recherches anthropologiques aux Antilles françaises

Un Modèle D'économie Pure de Plantation

Best, Lloyd, Un modèle d'économie pure de plantation, dans Les Cahiers du CERAG, n° 24, 1971. [traduction de Lloyd BEST, “Outlines of a Model of Pure Plantation Economy”, dans Social and Economic Studies, septembre 1968.]

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Nueva Sociedad [Special Edition]

Nueva Sociedad, Special Issue, 1977.

Notes from the Editor:

The magazine NUEVA SOCIEDAD, which appears for the first time in an English edition, is an attempt to stimulate the interchange of ideas and information in the Third World, and to encourage the South South dialogue. With a selection of articles from the last ten numbers, we wish to enable readers from other regions of the world, to gain access to Latin American problems.

Contents:

Articles:

Social Democracy and International Political and Economic Relations, by Carlos Andrés Pérez.
The New World Political Order, by José A. Silva Michelena.
The Doctrine of National Security and Latin American Integration, by Andrés Nina.
Carter, Human Rights and Latin America, by Demetrio Boersner.
To Increase the Dialogue with the Third World, an interview with Bernt Carlsson.
SELA: Political Decision and Disposition to Cooperate, by Jaime Moncayo.
The Latin American Multinational Enterprise of Agricultural Cooperation: A Practical Expression amond Developing Countries, by Alberto Fuentes Mohr.
Unity: Condition Necessary to Overthrow the Junta, by Clodomiro Almeyda.
The Protagonists of the Indigenous Drama, by Darcy Ribeiro.
Aspects of the Political Economy of Race in the Caribbean and the Americas, by Norman Girvan.

Documents:

European and American Leading Politicians Meeting Pro International Democratic Solidarity, Resolutions and Final Statement.
Fourth Meeting of the Latin American Forum.
SELA vis-a-vis the North-South Dialogue.
Corruption and Violation of Human Rights in Nicaragua.
People’s National Party of Jamaica: The Next Five Years.
Give Life to the Past so that the Present and Future have Life.

Books and Authors:

Fascismo en América Latina.
The Politics of Change – A Voice at the Workplace.
Guerra Civil en Costa Rica.
Centroamérica Hoy.
Panamá y la Frutera: Una Batalla Contra el Colonialismo.
Los Dictadores Latinoamericanos.
Capitalismo e Marginalidade na America Latina.
Formación y Crisis de un Sistema Feudal: América Latina del Siglo XVI a Nuestros Días.
El Caso Argentino: Hablan sus Protagonistas.

Nueva Sociedad 54 (Journal)

Nueva Sociedad, 54, mayo/junio, 1981. (en línea)

Race and Class in Political Perspective: The Case of Frente Obrero [Separata]

Römer, René A., Race and Class in Political Perspective: The Case of Frente Obrero, Kristòf, vol. 2, nr 6, december, 1975, pp. 253 – 263. (2 copies)

The Workers' Liberation Front (Dutch: Arbeiders Bevrijdingsfront, Papiamento: Frente Obrero Liberashon, FOL), officially the 30th of May Workers' Liberation Front Party:

The party was founded in 1969 and named after the riots/uprising of 30 May. When Wilson Godett and Stanley Brown were elected in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles, they were still in jail for their connections with the riots; but their upcoming membership in the Estates set them free.[1] During the 2002 and 2006 elections respectively, the party won 5 and 2 of the 14 Curaçao-seats in the 22 seat Estates of the Netherlands Antilles,[4][5] but during the 2010 election the party failed to obtain any seats.[6]

René Antonio Römer (2 July 1929, Willemstad, Curaçao – 25 February 2003, Curaçao)[1] was Governor of the Netherlands Antilles from 1983 to 1989. He was also a professor of sociology at the University of the Netherlands Antilles and at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

René Römer: Striking a Path, Creating a Legacy, Extract from the Introductory chapter in René Römer als inspirator: actualiseringen van zijn gedachtegoed. Curaçao: University of the Netherlands Antilles, 2006:9 – 15:

René Antonio Römer had an incredibly varied career, working in the areas of civil service, policy making, advising, writing, and education. He studied Political and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 1977 he obtained his doctorate in the Netherlands from the Rijksuniversiteit, the Royal University of Leiden, after defending his dissertation Een volk op weg, “A People in the Making”. The published version has become a standard reference: Een volk op weg; un pueblo na kaminda, a title that makes visible one of the realities of the Curaçaoan scholar: living in a foreign scholarly tradition while creating a more indigenous framework for understanding ourselves. The title is the original Dutch of the dissertation, and its Papiamentu translation. Whereas this work is seen as one of his strongest contributions to the sociology of Curaçao, his list of publications includes over 100 books, articles, and papers on Curaçao, the Netherlands Antilles, and Dutch Antillean relations

Educational Trends in the Caribbean: European Affiliated Areas

Hauch, Charles C., Educational Trends in the Caribbean: European Affiliated Areas: Bulletin, 1960, No. 26. OE-14043, Washington: Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Available online.

From the Foreword:

Educational trends throughout the world hold wider and deeper significance for American education today than in any previous period of our country. Thousands upon thousands of foreign students from many nations are enrolled each year in American colleges and universities. Increasingly the vital part which education contributes to the development of society is being recognized by peoples and their governments. The present bulletin is another in the Office of Education's long established series on education in other countries. This bulletin deals with some of the most apparent educational trends at the present time in European affiliated areas of the Caribbean. These include the British, Netherlands, and French affiliated areas. The educational ties of these areas with the United States add importance and interest to such a study. To cite just one example, more than 1,400 students from the British Caribbean areas alone were enrolled in institutions of higher learning in the United States during the 1958-59 school year, according to published statistics of the privately supported Institute of International Education. Information in this bulletin is based in considerable part on direct observation by the author of educational institutions and practices, and on discussions with educational and other specialists, in certain of the Caribbean areas during the latter part of 1958. These observations and discussions were supplemented by extensive study of published source materials and other writings on the area generally and its educational patterns and facilities. A selected bibliography is included. Two appendixes present: (1) Summary of Recommendations of the Regional Conference on the Training of Teachers in the British Caribbean, 1957; and (2) Summary of Principal Recommendations of the Mission on Higher Technical Education in the British Caribbean. Individual chapters contain footnotes.

Reviewed in The Americas.

Caribbean Nationhood in Anthropological Perspective

Mintz, Sidney, Caribbean Nationhood in Anthropological Perspective, Separata from Caribbean Integration, Rio Piedras: Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1967.

The Caribbean as a Socio-Cultural Area

Mintz, Sidney W., The Caribbean as a Socio-Cultural Area, Cahiers D'histoire Mondiale, Volume IX, No. 4, 1966.

Available online.

See also Caribbean.

The Caribbean Sugar Industry: A Select Bibliography

Wilkinson, Audine, (compiler) The Caribbean Sugar Industry: A Select Bibliography, Occasional bibliography series no. 4, Cave Hill, Barbados: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, May 1976.

From the Forword:

Sugar has been the single most important producto emerging from the Caribbean in its 480-odd years of recorded history. From the time of the production of this crop for export in 1640 in Barbados the industry has bulked large in the economy of the various territories in which it was grown. Sugar has been the mainstay of a large number of islands such as Barbados, St. Kitts and Antigua and the leading sector for centuries in others such as Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico. It has been the cause of major demographic and social changes in the región. The “sugar revolution” of the 17th century saw the large-scale introduction of Africans into the Caribbean and the long centuries of African slavery. The period after 1834 witnessed a crisis in the industry and the consequent importation of large numbers of East Indian and other indentured labourers into British and French colonies, thus altering the racial balance in these areas.

Eighteenth-Century Settlement in the British Caribbean (Separata)

Niddrie, D. L., Eighteenth-Century Settlement in the British Caribbean, Separata from Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, No. 40 (Dec., 1966), pp. 67-80.

Available online.

Bibliography on Haiti: English and Creole Items, Paper # 6

Lawless, Robert, (compiler) Bibliography on Haiti: English and Creole Items, Paper # 6, Gainesville Fla.: Center for Latin American Studies, June 1985.

From the Introduction:

Since 1977 when they began arriving in Florida in significant numbers, Haitian immigrants have had an impact on the American conscience rarely matched by the migrations of any other group. The heartrending spectacle in 1981 of 33 Haitians drowning after their 25-foot homemade boat capsized within 50 yards of the shores of the affluent community of Hillsboro Beach, Florida, was followed on network televisión by other stories of the tragedies of the Haitian boat people. The publicity resulted in positive action by many U.S. civic groups.

Table of Contents:

Topic:

Introduction
1. Agriculture
2. Art
3. Bibliographies
4. Demography
5. Economics
6. Education
7. Family
8. Fiction
9. Health
10. History
11. Humanities
12. Independence
13. Languages
14. Literature
15. Migration
16. Occupation
17. Politics
18. Popular
19. Relations with United States
20. Religion
21. Sociocultural
22. Urbanism
23. General
Author Index.

New World Quarterly (Journal) Vol. IV, No. 1

New World Quarterly, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1967.

Repeating Islands – It was one of Caribbean economist Norman Girvan’s final requests to his family: Make the archive of New World Quarterly, a foundational journal that appeared between 1963 and 1972, available to younger generations. Accordingly the Girvan family, working with Kari Levitt and Judith Wedderburn, has digitized all 14 issues of this postcolonial gem of a publication, (…) “Our thoughts are that a digital publication is a contemporary gesture in the spirit and scope of The New World community, residing in a space with open access to all,” said the Girvan family’s statement. Norman Girvan, along with Lloyd Best, George Beckford and other academic activists had launched the journal in the early 60s. A valuable archive of articles on everything from the geopolitics of the Anglophone Caribbean region to agriculture in China, the sugar industry, Sports, Visual Arts, Literature, Caribbean integration the journal represented in its pages the “birth, flourishing and eventual demise of one of the region’s most influential intellectual movements,” the New World Group.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Editorial Comment

FORUM
Whither New World, by Lloyd Best

ARTICLE
Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, by Hollis Lynch

CONFERENCE REPORT
Anguilla: Teach-In Proceedings, by Jamaican Public

ARTICLE
Trinidad Postwar Economy, by Edwin Carrington

POEM
Translation from Garcia Lorca, by Lloyd King

Cartografía sobre Puerto Rico en París, Londres y Madrid

Morales Padrón, F.; Gil-Bermejo García, Juana; Garrido Conde, Mª Teresa, Cartografía sobre Puerto Rico en París, Londres y Madrid, Sevilla: Anuario de Estudios Americanos, 1961. Tomo XVIII – Separata de la página 615 a 649. (firmado para el Dr. Thomas Mathews)

De la introducción:

La riqueza en mapas y planos de los archivos españoles es inmensa. Corre pareja esta riqueza con la abundancia de papeles que tanto nos agobia a veces. Sin embargo, más de una vez, hemos de agradecer a nuestros antepasados esa manía papelera que tuvieron. Manía que aún perdura. Leer más