Small Island States WENDY UNETTE SEALYn‚y A B ST R AC T An attempt is made in this paper to gain an understanding of the current and potential impact of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the Small Island Sates of the Caribbean‚ in particular those populations living in rural communities. The introduction brie£y examines the impact of ICTs on society and calls for alternative channels for government to serve rural communities through the use of MultiCommunity Access Centres
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and non-material aspects. However‚ as a result of a developing and maturing society‚ in addition to the birth of various generations and external influences‚ these “ways of life” can be inadvertently retained‚ renewed and even discarded. Our own Caribbean society‚ specifically Barbados is not exempt from such occurrences. Cultural Erasure is the gradual removal of various traditions and customs from society. The process of cultural erasure is gradual as these practices generally make a slow but
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Introduction An island of paradise is everyone’s dream vacation. Saint Lucia is at the top of every honeymooner’s destination dream. Saint Lucia is a beautiful tropical island on the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Lucia is full of dining establishments fit for every type of person. There are hotels galore for just about any budget and any reason to travel. There is never a dull moment on the island with attractions and virtually every amenity catering to
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The phenomena of Natural Disasters An earthquake is sudden motion or trembling of the ground produced by the abrupt displacement of rock masses. HOW DO THEY OCCUR? The earth’s outer shell is divided into seven major and some smaller plates which are constantly in a dynamic state‚ pushing against‚ pulling away from‚ or grinding past one another. Forces build up as the plates attempt to move in relation to each other. When the adhesions along the fault give way‚ stored energy is released in the
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Ouahani Nasr-edine A Paper about Stuart Hall’s article: Cultural Identity and Diaspora Stuart hall talks about the crucial role of the “Third Cinemas” in promoting the Afro-Caribbean cultural identities‚ the Diaspora hybridity and difference. Hall argues that the role of the “Third Cinemas” is not simply to reflect what is already there; rather‚ their crucial role is to produce representations which constantly constitute the third world’s peoples as new subjects against their representations
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Caribbean Institute of MEDIA and COMMUNICATION The University of the West Indies Mona Western Jamaica Campus 10 Queens Drive‚ Montego Bay St. James‚ Jamaica‚ W.I Tel. (876) 940-4349 ext. 7023‚ Fax (876) 971-1283 E-mail carimac@uwimona.edu.jm Web www.mona.uwi.edu/carimac BA DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTION PROGRAMME 2014/2015 LEVEL ONE SEMESTER ONE 1. COMM1001 – Communication‚ Culture and Caribbean Society 2. MDIA1004 – Elements of Style 3. MDIA1006 – Drawing Fundamentals 4. FOUN1401/1001 – Writing
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Joseph Halliday’s paper records basic and sweeping changes in the instructive arrangement of St.Kitts and Nevis. Like most changes in Caribbean instructive history they included tunneling thoughts grew somewhere else. In this occasion the tunneled thought is that of optional training from Britain‚ exhaustive instruction was not only added to the arrangement of auxiliary training‚ it supplanted the sentence structure school instruction and turned into the optional framework itself. The charming parts
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2012‚ a new president was elected. The future of the Dominican Republic lies in the new presidents plans to boost the economy and drop crime rates. The Dominican Republic is located on the island of Hispaniola between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Its exact coordinates are 18.9473° N‚ 70.4811° W. The Dominican Republic shares the island with Haiti‚ to the West‚ and is approximately 48‚320 square kilometers; slightly more than twice the size of New Hampshire . The Dominican Republic
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Successive waves of Arawak migrants‚ moving northward from the Orinoco delta in South America‚ settled the islands of the Caribbean. Around AD 600‚ the Taíno Indians‚ an Arawak culture‚ arrived on the island‚ displacing the previous inhabitants. They were organized into cacicazgos (chiefdoms)‚ each led by a cacique (chief). The final Arawak migrants‚ the Caribs‚ began moving up the Lesser Antilles in the 12th century‚ and were raiding Taíno villages on the island’s eastern coast by the late sixteenth
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of the population because of the drumming‚ dancing and functions. It is compared to Anglicans and Baptists which are more accepted forms of religion as oppose to Shangoism. Rastafarianism which was adopted in Jamaica soon spread throughout the Caribbean. It began as a religious cult with the worship of Haile Selassie‚ who was the Emperor of Ethiopia‚ as the Messiah of the black race who would lead the blacks back to Africa. As it came to Trinidad it was not accepted because of the long “locks” they
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