Articles in 'Jamaica'

SUGAR SYMPOSIUM: SUGAR WITHOUT EMOTION

May I say first that I'm speaking on my own behalf. I look at this sugar business without any emotion, without any heat, without any rancour. I know that sugar has been a political crop; it is a crop that...

  • The year 1968 marked the centennial of Jamaica's banana export industry. Because of an absence of a sense of history...

  • PETER ABRAHAMS-Recent Visitor to Anguilla: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I found when I reached Anguilla that for all practical...

  • This paper aims at sketching in broad outline the development of the Jamaican economy during the post-war period and assessing...

  • This article is extracted from a forthcoming book by Professor Lewis on The Growth of the Modern West Indies to...

  • I The process of decolonization in the Commonwealth Caribbean in the post-war period has so far followed a single pattern...

  • POETRY: SPANISH TOWN

    The old capitols one heap of carefully preserved garbage Georgian square imposing facades hiding either dusty archive the only records...

  •  Peter Abrahams, This Island Now. Faber and Faber, London 1966.  One welcomes any novel about the present day Caribbean situation....

  • BEFORE AND AFTER 1865

    I A bare list of the events which followed the riots at Morant Bay provokes no argument. But whether these...