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  • Queen Elizabeth the Second opens the Senate House
  • Special Events - Jamaica; Royal visitors - Jamaica; Buildings - Jamaica; University Senate House (Jamaica); Queen Elizabeth the Second; Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh; Sherlock, Phillip; Sherlock, Lady; McDonald, Herbert.
  • *Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second has someone presented to her by Principal Walter Grave after she addressed the gathering at the undercroft, UWI Mona. Prince Phillip stands behind her and shakes the hand of a gentleman. Beside Prince Philip...
  • UWI Historical Photographs Collection
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  • Queen Elizabeth the Second opens the Senate House
  • Buildings - Jamaica; Special Events - Jamaica; Royal visitors - Jamaica; Queen Elizabeth the Second; Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh; University Senate House (Jamaica).
  • *Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, H.R.H. Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh and others look admiringly at the recently unveiled plaque commemorating Her Majesty’s opening of the Senate House.
  • UWI Historical Photographs Collection
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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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  • Learning to Blow the Abeng: A Critical Look at Anti-establishment Movements of the 1960s and 1970s
  • Blacks-Race identity-Caribbean Area; Black power-West Indies-History; Caribbean Area-Race relations; Caribbean Area-Politics and government; Rastafarian movement; Workers Party of Jamaica; People's National Party (Jamaica)
  • An examination of the movements in the 1960s and 1970s concerned with eliminating the legacies of racial, economic and class oppression from the colonial experience that continued after political independence.
  • Rupert Lewis Collection
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  • Escape to reality
  • Insanity
  • Confined to a hospital, the young woman uses her mirror to enter a dream world where she becomes a princess visited often by her Prince Charming. This way she escapes the harshness and cruelty of the real world. After a time, she concludes that...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Political Education in the 21stCentury
  • Jamaica-Politics and government; Politics science
  • The article provides a definition for political education. The definition encompasses political practices, psychological make-up and political challenges regionally as well as internationally.
  • Rupert Lewis Collection
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  • Art in Jamaica today
  • Art, Jamaican
  • The writer, in an opinion piece, discusses the state of art in Jamaica at the time of writing. Among other things, he notes the lack of a distinctive type of art that can be labeled Jamaican and the tendency for critics to over-praise mediocre work...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians: Continuity and Discontinuity
  • Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940-Influence;Rastafari movement; Black nationalism-History-20th century; Blacks-Politics and government-20th century.
  • This paper examines the political aspects of the origins of the Rastafarian movement at a time when the Garvey movement was in decline in the 1930s. Its main intentions are to .underscore ways in which Garveyism has affected the evolution of...
  • Rupert Lewis Collection

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