“Jamaica yes, Federation no!” That was the slogan of the Jamaica Labour Party for its 1961 campaign against regional integration. For the People’s National Party, the issue wasn’t either/or. Their rallying cry was “Jamaica yes, Federation Yes!”.
The 2023 West Indian Literature Conference, “Connections,” will take place during October 12-14, 2023, at the University of the West Indies-Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica. The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 15, 2023. Description: Caribbean literary and cultural criticism highlights the myriad connections between geography, history, language, identities, culture, and forms of knowledge.…
SKNVibes | The UWI mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Gordon Rohlehr sknvibes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sknvibes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Accolades have poured in for Professor Emeritus Gordon Rohlehr, the Guyanese-born UWI, St Augustine academic, early poet, critic and thinker who died just as the season of calypso starts, when it was he who made that popular genre his own critical and theoretical territory. He was the man who argued that calypso was on a
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