NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS IN THE CARIBBEAN Definitions A hazard can be defined as‚ “A potentially damaging physical event‚ phenomenon or human activity that may cause the loss of life or injury‚ property damage‚ social and economic disruption or environmental degradation”. Hazards can include latent conditions that may represent future threats and can have different origins: natural (geological‚ hydrometeorological and biological); or induced by human processes (environmental degradation
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The aim of every Caribbean country is to realize growth and development over time so as to achieve first world status. Most of the Caribbean countries are ranked as middle income countries. These countries realize that achieving first world status is a long term initiative given the many social problems that we face as a Caribbean nation. Among the many social problems that we face‚ poverty is the most pervasive of them all. Despite the effort of many of these countries to try and eradicate poverty
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will consider paying top dollar amounts to cruise to the Caribbean Islands as a great alternative for a week or weekend getaway. After proposing this idea to Norwegian entrepreneurs‚ Royal Caribbean Cruise lines‚ was born. Forty five years and forty ships later‚ based out of Miami Florida‚ Royal Caribbean is the second largest cruise line in the world‚ behind frontrunner Carnival. RCCL operates its ships under the brand names Royal Caribbean International‚ Celebrity Cruises‚ Pullmantur‚ Azamara Cruises
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In 1902 a group of horse and buggy drivers created the Teamsters Union‚ in that the Teamsters were employed to transport goods. This occupation has played an important part in the economic development of the United States. Although they worked under difficult circumstances at the turn of the twentieth century they began to unionize on an extensive scale. There was no established national organization until 1912 that the teamsters were secure. Back in those days certain crafts and professions were
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separate parts of the world‚ completing different assignments for different reasons. Although buccaneers and privateers both engaged in piracy‚ whether it was legal or not‚ they were inequivalent in terms of background‚ purpose‚ and operation. Amid the Caribbean‚ buccaneers with keen marksmanship hunted wild cattle and boar on the island of Hispaniola. These men were brutal‚ burly beings that could live throughout the harshest of environments. They constructed boucans‚ or grills‚ to smoke and sell their
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The African Union (AU) succeeded the Organization of African Unity (OAU)‚ which was formed in 1963. The OAU was a product of a compromise of African statesmen who wanted political union of all independent African states and those who preferred functional cooperation as a building block towards the construction of an African socio-psychological community. The OAU was then transformed to AU in Sirte‚ Libya in 2001 with African leaders aiming to harmonize the economic and political
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breadwinner of the home and if there is any male presence‚ it is marginalized. These families can be called mother-centered‚ woman-centered or headed and grandmother-centered. In 1937‚ the British Colonial Social Welfare Workers were sent to the Caribbean to fix the existing social problems of the societies and provide measures to assist. Thomas Simey (1946)‚ was a welfare worker and postulated that one of the main problems were the fact that families were loose and children were fatherless‚ and they
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during a time where trade was at some points‚ booming between civilizations‚ a system of exchanging information was vital to successful trade‚ on small scales like people within the same area‚ and on larger scales‚ like communities in different regions. Successful trade transactions relied on many things in a time where rule and order was restricted to a geographical location. Thus‚ the exchange of information pertaining to potential trade deals was just as vital as the trade itself. Without that
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on our understanding of union effects by examining what unions do to managerial practice in the workplace. Unions can be an instrument of social change but even when they play a larger role in society‚ their core activity remains focused at the workplace. Their principal engagement is with management though their actions may extend to lobbying‚ politics‚ and the community at both local and international levels. Therefore‚ in any consideration of the question‚ what do unions do to the workplace‚ it
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technology‚ in context of the statement‚ refers to machines that are not indigenous to the Caribbean. These machines allow little or no manual effort used in order to complete tasks. The moot suggests that‚ these technologies have advanced Caribbean economies only a little bit. Imported technology has not marginally improved Caribbean economies. It has immensely improved economies of the Caribbean. Many Caribbean islands depend on tourism as an industry‚ and technology plays and integral role in boosting
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