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This digital document is an article from Caribbean Update, published by Caribbean Update, Inc. on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 313 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: NATURAL GAS PROJECT.(Jamaica's Government moves towardimplementing liquefied natural gas project)(Brief Article)
Publication: Caribbean Update (Newsletter)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Caribbean Update, Inc.
Volume: 19Issue: 3

Article Type: Brief Article

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Basic information on foreign and domestic policy, national security, political system, parties and elections, government and administrative structure. Participation in international organizations, treaties and regional unions.International and foreign policy and more. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on June 22, 1992. The length of the article is 8246 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: This paper assesses commonly held views about the causes of mortgage arrears in government programs in poor countries. Data from Jamaica support housing officials' perceptions that higher arrears are found among those who view government housing programs as a gift and among male mortgagors. The remainder of the evidence, however, runs contrary to perceptions. Arrears are not exclusively a low-income problem, nor are they more likely to occur with loans that have escalating payments or low initial mortgagor equity, nor for untitled property. Nor do arrears seem to be correlated to large loan-income ratios. Comparisons of perceptions and reality suggest that an agency's public image is critical to repayment and that mortgages can be made more available to prospective low-income homeowners without increasing arrears. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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Title: What causes arrears in government housing programs? Perceptions and the empirical evidence from Jamaica.
Author: Thomas Klak
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1992
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: v58Issue: n3Page: p336(10)

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In Focus Jamaica: A Guide to the People, Policitics and Culture
Very good look at the history and overview of the makings of the most beautiful country we've ever seen. It really helps to understand the personalities and the heritage that brought them to the point they are at now.

Not your average travel book
I was looking for a book that would tell me more than the best beaches or resorts to visit. This book is much more in depth about the culture and people than most travel books. If you want to know about the real Jamaica and not just what you see at a resort or on a tour, this is the book for you.

Great for Travelers
The greatness of Mason's guidebook is that it gives history and politics as well as travel information.Mason provides a basis for understanding the place.Another great travel companion is "Jamaica Girl" by Jon Michael Miller.Miller's novel also shows you the real Jamaica, far behind the walls of the famous all-inclusive resorts. You will see the struggles and the joys of a wonderful people, as well as meet Rosalind Juliet Mitchell, a fabulously brave and resourceful protagonist, on her search for love and freedom. It is by far the best book about Jamaica I have ever read. A wonderful story, suspenseful, sexy, funny, disturbing, and quite moving. Wonderful characters. And a great message about the power of love to transform one's existence. A great read for a vacation, or, even, a vacation in itself. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), published by Thomson Gale on November 6, 2007. The length of the article is 893 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Jamaica: the Caribbean's no-go zone: should LGBT travelers boycott the homophobic Caribbean isle, or has a de facto gay ban already occurred?(lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual)
Author: Ken Kiesnowski
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 6, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 996Page: S38(1)

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Argues that marginalized states and peoples are capable of initiating their own foreign policy agendas. ... Read more

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The limits of hegemony
This is a superb work bringing together social theory andhistory with international relations. Persaud uses the case of Jamaica to demonstrate how small states can influence global discourse and power balance, even if in a limited area. He does this by making use of the concept of hegemony/conunter-hegemony in innovative ways. Persaud suggests and demonstrates very convincingly that counter-hegmony is always integral to the construction of any hegemonic project.IR practicioners, scholars and students in social theory and history will benefit enormously from reading this book. ... Read more

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The complex story of the rise and fall of the colored class in Jamaican politics is examined in this important contribution to the history of the Caribbean. ... Read more

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In 1974, following a successful parliamentary election, Michael Manley and his People's National Party took Jamaica onto a self-proclaimed democratic socialist path. Although the project failed even prior to the subsequent electoral defeat of the PNP in 1980, this short-lived experiment has evoked considerable interest among development scholars. In this book, Nelson Keith and Novella Keith challenge current interpretations of Jamaican events and develop an alternative theoretical model: national popularism.

Without dismissing the negative machinations by the U.S., internal mismanagement, and other problems, the authors argue that the events in question speak of the fragility of a national class alliance that coalesced temporarily, amidst a crisis, around a "new" politics. While incorporating radical impulses "from below" as well as socialist policies, the new politics was rooted in liberal democratic strains that had evolved historically in ways that could accommodate these impulses. The Manley project can thus be better understood as the "management" of peripheral capitalism rather than a budding socialism. In their rich historical analysis of race and class in Jamaica, the authors trace the emergence and demise of progressive "alternative paths to development" in the Third World. ... Read more