Radiolitid rudists from the Upper Maastrichtian of Jamaica includegenera Bournonia, Biradiolites and Thyrastylon. Three species ofBournonia are recognised, B. cancellata WHITFIELD, B. barrettiTRECHMANN and B. thiadensi VERMUNT. B. cancellata evolvesinto B. barretti by t...

While positive change has been occurring, the general consensus is that female athletes and sports have not been as valorized historically, by either the media or society as a whole when compared t...

Mainstream music can be popularly categorized into specific genres: Rock, Country, Hip Hop, contemporary rhythm and blues (R&B) and Pop. Music of these genres are continually complied on the Billboard music charts based on popularity. This paper explores the uniq...

North-East Tobago is a rural, underdeveloped and marginalized section on the island of Tobago. The area is socially and economically vulnerable to external shocks that can impede on the development of the community-based tourism sector. The small communities are strongl...

Secessionist movements are ubiquitous in the Caribbean, with virtually every multi-island state and territory experiencing centrifugal tendencies. The region thus offers a unique opportunity to examine why some succeed and others fail. By and large, the propensity for s...

Building upon the previous chapter, this chapter centres the Rastafari categorical distinction of “His Majesty’s People,” in Rastafari words. Drawing upon concepts of forgetting and remembering, I delineate how Rastafari charter myths are situated in repatriates’ effort...

Building on the blueprint of Marcus Garvey and Edelweiss Park in Kingston from 1910, the popular theatre movement morphed into psychohistoriographic cultural therapy in Bellevue Hospital in 1978. This sociodrama process emerged with the creation of Madnificent Irations,...

The overwhelming outpouring of support for the pageant in the local media demonstrated in the first year by two theatrical newspaper reviews, eleven newspaper reports, and four television presentations. Some reports featured the event as a social/historical event. Other...

After a narrative opening, I detail the power of the imagination to move persons from the Global South as they reinvent themselves, in particular Caribbean Rastafari who have undertaken a spiritual repatriation to Ethiopia, following a twentieth-century grant of land fr...