The natural disasters that are typically experienced in the Caribbean can have catastrophic and devastating impacts on the environment‚ economic development and social structure of these islands. Severe damage to the built infrastructure that has supported communities on Caribbean islands for decades can place a huge strain on economic activity. The social impacts that are experienced following natural disasters consist of homelessness‚ injury‚ suffering‚ sickness‚ disease‚ and even death. This paper
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Integration Efforts in the Caribbean INTEGRATION EFFORTS IN THE CARIBBEAN ESSAY Sir Arthur Lewis in 1965 wrote ‘these islands did not start on the federal road in a fit of idleness. They start because it was clear that a federation is the only possible solution to their problem.” To understand what Sir Arthur Lewis meant regional integration must be defined. According to Carbough (2004)‚ regional integration is a process of eliminating restrictions on international trade‚ payments and factors of
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Peasantry Peasantry in the Caribbean dates back to 1838. Technically‚ peasantry is a combination of the cultivation of a variety of goods and the raising of a variety of animals on fairly small pieces of property without the aid of hired labour and largely for subsistence purposes. Brierly and Ruben (1988) describe peasants as typically economically deprived people at the lower strata off society. Characteristics of Caribbean peasantry • Historically existed on the crevices of society
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There are various types of Caribbean family forms. The emergence of the different family types was largely due to historical influences that shape Caribbean civilization; such as racial diversity‚ ethnicity‚ social class‚ African cultural retention‚ legacy of Plantation slavery‚ and culture of poverty (Herskovits‚ Lewis‚ Clarke‚ Smith). Caribbean society has grown into an international mixture of different races and ethnic groups that construct their reality in the Caribbean. This mixture has resulted
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Contextual View of the Caribbean Court of Justice 4 The CSME and CCJ Connection 6 Funding and Integration 8 Two Significant Cases 9 Appendix 3 INTRODUCTION It is said that within the economic sphere‚ the Caribbean is caught between two worlds. The old world of trade preferences‚ concessional flows of financial resources to the region‚ domestic protectionism‚ state dominated‚ and over-regulated economic activity is vanishing or is already gone. The new Caribbean economy has now become
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1. Introduction Many things have shaped the history of the Caribbean islands‚ decolonization‚ economic modernization and the globalization of tourism. When most of the islands became independent from foreign rule they needed to build up a working economy. Some of the bigger more resource rich island nations started to produce and export goods but many of the smaller island states did not have this opportunity. When tourism started to grow‚ both types of islands benefitted a lot from it‚ but it
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Wolmer’s Trust High School for Girls Caribbean studies Internal assessment Summarily‚ the internal assessment is a research paper‚ that is‚ a systematic process of collecting and analyzing primary data in order to answer a question about the social world. It is much more than library and internet research (secondary sources)! The Research Process Social research is a type of structured and systematic research carried out by social scientists about the social world (Neuman
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The Effects of Growth in Caribbean Industries on Slavery Submitted by: Angelo Mohan (500365899) CHST 222: History of the Caribbean Submitted to: Dr. Laurie Jacklyn Date: April 3‚ 2015 Ryerson University The process of the elimination of slavery was heavily hindered by increased demand within growing Caribbean industries. The three major industries that required a large amount of manpower and held back the social reform on slavery were the sugar industry‚ the agricultural industry
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The immediate addiction European citizens developed to the new sweetener drove the sugar trade between Europe and the Caribbean. In order to feed this addiction‚ slave labor in the Caribbean emerged‚ taking advantage of the islands which proved to be perfect for the growth of Europe’s newest drug. The population of Europe strongly desired sugar for sweetening imports‚ especially coffee‚ tea and chocolate. The citizens craved the sweet taste and demanded to be supplied with more of the drug. The price
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How did the African slavery impact the Caribbean region between1640-1985? Introduction When the Europeans switched from tobacco to sugar cultivation‚ the plantation needed more lands and more labour. The labour present came from the Tainos‚ whose population decreased from abuse‚ and could not meet the labour demands. The Europeans brought free labourers from Europe‚ but they could not be forced to work under the conditions demanded by the encomenderos. The church suggested the use of enslaving
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