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GOVERNANCE, POLITICS: ISSUES

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LEGAL SYSTEM: JAMAICA

THE JAMAICAN LEGAL SYSTEM AND GUIDE TO LEGAL RESEARCH
By Jeanne Slowe and Claudette Solomon

Professor Emeritus Rupert Lewis

"Whither Caribbean Politics"10th Annual Leonard Tim Hector Lecture, Professor Rupert Lewis

WESTMINISTER MODEL

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • ACCURATE A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections

CIVICS EDUCATION

"GARRISON" COMMUNITIES

  • Report of the National Committee on Political Tribalism, 23 July 1997. National Committee on Political Tribalism.
    James S Kerr.    
    Available at Mona, Main Library -  Course Reserve Book (RBC) (JF1081 .N374 1997 )

  • Garrison communitiesAvailable at Mona, West Indies, Special Library -  West Indies Vertical File 
  • Forced Ripe!    How Youth of Three Selected Working Class Communities Assess their Identity, Support, and Authority Systems, including their Relationship with the Jamaican Police. 
    A Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation and Research (PEER.)
    Herbert Gayle  with   Horace Levy. 
    UWI, Mona, Jamaica, June 2007. 
    Sponsors:World Bank, the Jamaica Social Policy Evaluation Project through the UK Department for International Development (DFID)

    See http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com
    /doi/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00009.x/abstract
  • Young Boys Learning to Fear, Hate and Harm: A Recipe for Sustaining Tribal Political Violence in Jamaica's Garrisons. 2009
    Gayle, H.
    IDS Bulletin, 40: 53–62. doi: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00009.x

  • Confronting the Don: The Political Economy of Gang Violence in Jamaica
    Glaister Leslie 
    Small Arms Survey, Occasional Paper 26, 2010

  • Killing Streets and Community Revival 
    Horace Levy

REPARATIONS & APOLOGIES

Website: 

  • Political Apologies and Reparations
  • St. Lucia News Online.  2015, November 17. "Sir James Mitchell says the idea of reparations is `stupid`" 
    http://www.stlucianewsonline.com/sir-james-mitchell-says-the-idea-of-reparations-is-stupid/
  • Ekathimerini.com.  2015, November 17. News. "WWII reparations committee gets green light." 
    A meeting of parliamentary speakers Tuesday approved a proposal by House Speaker Nikos Voutsis for the re-establishment of a cross-party committee that will seek reparations from Germany for the Nazi occupation of Greece.    Earlier, Voutsis told the House’s deputy speakers that “the issue of German war reparations to Greece and the Greek people remains open, part of an inerasable debt that seeks its moral, historic and legal vindication.”    He added that it was the duty of Greece’s Parliament to “actively participate in the preparation and organization of Greece’s claims.”
  • DeConto, James. 2015, 11/10. "White Scholar Insists Churches Should Talk About Reparations For Descendants of Slaves."   Religion News Service. HuffPost Black Voices.   

  • Watson, Jamal Eric. 2015, Nov 5. "Experts Discuss Global Case for Reparations for Slavery."  Diverse Issues in Higher Education. 

  • Blog:   The Politics of Official Apologies An Interview with Melissa Nobles, By Khatchig Mouradian and Melissa Nobles, Saturday, March 22, 2008

Books in UWI Library:

  • Francis, Cavell. 2006. Jamaica and the Debate over Reparation for Slavery : A Discussion Paper / Prepared by the Jamaica Bicentenary Committee with Research Assistance from Cavell Francis et Al... Jamaica: Jamaica Bicentenary Committee]
    Location: Special Library -  University Book (HT1098 .J3 2006 )
  • Satchell, Veront M. Reparation & Emancipation / Veront Satchell.Churches' Emancipation Lecture ; 2003. Jamaica: S.n., 2003.  
    Location:  Special Library    University Pamphlet   (HT1098 .S28 2003 )

Book: 

Blog:

Newspaper sources: 

. Michael Reckord. The Gleaner. September 11, 2014.

re: Documentary film: The Price of Memory by Karen Marks Mafundikwa.

 Kenya:

CARICOM:

  •  Key Note Presentation by Dr. Adrian Fraser, "“Back to our roots- Strategies for Survival and Sustainability of Indigenous Peoples in SVG”   TRANSCRIPT        National Garifuna Conference, The Garifuna Heritage Foundation. Theme: "Back to our roots – Strategies for Survival and Sustainability of Indigenous Peoples in St. Vincent and the Grenadines" 

Belize: 

 Jamaica:

Haiti: 

CORRUPTION / ETHICS

Waller, Lloyd, Paul Bourne, Indianna Minto and John Rapley. 2007.
      "A Landscape Assessment of Political Corruption in Jamaica."  
      CaPRI - Caribbean Policy Research Institute.

http://www.slideshare.net/testing123456/corruption-public-sector

CARICOM

Booklet: CSME  CARICOM SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY
CARICOM Secretariat 2008 
Single Market and Economy, Free Movement - Travel and Work

  1. Part One: Free movement for Gainful economic activity
  2. Part Two: Hassle free travel

STUDENT'S VIEWPOINT

MIGRANT WORKERS

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Raoul Peck. Producer. 2009.
"Moloch Tropical." Film on Haiti. 

 

MANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR