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  • Christmas Eve
  • Christmas stories; City and town life; Rural life; Interpersonal relations; loss
  • Christmas Eve is usually a time of food, laughter and good cheer, but for some like Connie, there is little cause to celebrate. In the country, she listens to her family’s chatter as they express their wishes for a better new year. Mass Jim talks...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Night shudders over all
  • Man-woman relationship; Marriage; Infidelity
  • Night time seems to bring to fore all sorts of events and behavior as people reach out for life or try to make sense of it. The author presents some examples, including: the wife who suspects her artist husband of philandering with his latest...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Still life with Oleanders
  • Family relations; Death ; Childhood and youth
  • Thaddeus, a young boy, mourns the passing of his grandmother as he soon realizes that his life is about to change and those of his adult relatives too who must each work through their own problems brought on by the old lady’s death.
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Start of something again
  • Man-woman relationship; Interpersonal relations; Hurricanes
  • Duckett and Silver meet regularly at their favourite restaurant to talk about art and politics as the city grows restless in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. During this time, Silver is flirting dangerously with a married woman right...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Thunderhead
  • City and town life
  • The author provides short insights into the lives of different people in the city at a time of social turbulence: Joie and Sam looks forward to Christmas together but tragedy intervenes; a seventeen year old boy furtively tries to seduce a girl...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • World's End
  • Death; Loss; Fathers and sons
  • The old man’s world seems to have come to an end with the death of his donkey, his only means of making a living. As he and his son inform the regular customers on his donkey cart route, a few show sympathy but most appear indifferent. Only when he...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • City and town life
  • Amidst the haunting melody of the song "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", the author presents a series of snapshots of the bitter-sweetness of everyday life in the city - people trying to escape their aloneness, people loving, hating, dying – in their...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • PUBLIC OPINION _Vol.1 _No.28_August 28,1937
  • Public opinion-Jamaica-20th century; Jamaica-Social life and customs-Periodicals; Jamaica-Social conditions; Jamaica-Economic conditions; Motion pictures-Social aspects-Jamaica; Sports-Caribbean Area; Trinidad-Government and politics
  • A weekly Jamaican newspaper in the 1930s which provides news and views about politics; sports; lifestyle; entertainment; culture; and more
  • Newspapers - Public Opinion
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  • Reflections on the Rebellion in St. Thomas in the East for today, July 11, 2004.
  • Insurgency-Jamaica-History; Slave insurrections-Jamaica-History-18th century; Jamaica-History-Morant Bay rebellion, 1865-1866;Maroons-Jamaica; Heroes-Jamaica; Jamaica-History
  • The causes and structures of slave revolts in Jamaica are discussed in this article. It also looks into the role of Maroons in slave uprisings. It questions if we can have a non-violent Morant Bay Rebellion today, and says that in order to have...
  • Rupert Lewis Collection
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  • Sharing experiences on best practices in democacy building in the Caribbean: the relationships between peace, security, democracy and development
  • Democracy-Caribbean, English-speaking; Caribbean, English-speaking-Politics and government-21st century; Representative government and representation-Caribbean, English-speaking
  • This article examines the state of optimal democratic practices in Caribbean independent countries. CARICOM (Caribbean Community), a regional economic group created in the early 1970s, is made up of these countries. Between the 1960s and 1980s,...
  • Rupert Lewis Collection
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  • Spotlight Vol 28 Nos 7-9 1967
  • Caribbean Area-Periodicals; Agriculture-Caribbean Area; Caribbean Area-Economic conditions; Caribbean Area-Politics and government-20th century; Caribbean Area-Social conditions
  • Monthly news magazine of Jamaica and the Caribbean
  • Newspapers - Spotlight
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  • West Indian Sportsman 1975 Vol, 28 Nos. 2 - 3
  • Sports-Peridicals, Sports-Social aspects;Frazier, Joe, 1944-2011; Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016; Boxers (Sports)-United States; Sports sponsorship-Jamaica; Hockey for women-Great Britain; Soccer for women; Netball-Jamaica; Jamaica-Social life and...
  • Sports journal of the Caribbean. It provides news, analysis, commentaries and updates on many sports including cricket, football, tennis and more.
  • West Indian Sportsman

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