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Knowledge Levels, Attitude And Beliefs Of Men Towards The Digital Rectal Examinations (Dre): A Study In Trinidad, Philip C. Onuoha, Gloria Mootoo-Ramdeen, Melany Romany, G La Fleur-Roseman, J Roopnarine, D Diaspia-Murrell, K Martin-Boucaud, P Hypolite Jan 2020

Knowledge Levels, Attitude And Beliefs Of Men Towards The Digital Rectal Examinations (Dre): A Study In Trinidad, Philip C. Onuoha, Gloria Mootoo-Ramdeen, Melany Romany, G La Fleur-Roseman, J Roopnarine, D Diaspia-Murrell, K Martin-Boucaud, P Hypolite

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Background: Trinidad and Tobago have been ranked as having one of the highest cancer mortality rates in the Caribbean. Prostate cancer was identified as the most common cancer in men, with a higher mortality than any other cancer. At least 1 in 9 men in Trinidad and Tobago will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine knowledge levels, attitudes, and beliefs of men aged 40 years and over regarding digital rectal examination (DRE). The investigators considered this crucial following the scourge of prostate cancer in Trinidad and Tobago and an …


Knowledge Networks: Contested Geographies In The History Of Mary Prince, Leah M. Thomas Dec 2019

Knowledge Networks: Contested Geographies In The History Of Mary Prince, Leah M. Thomas

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

The History of Mary Prince, a West-Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831) is the first published woman’s slave narrative. In her History, Prince describes horrendous physical violence to which she and other enslaved peoples of African descent are subjected as well as the corresponding psychological and sexual abuse they endure. While Prince “speaks” the sexual abuse to some extent, how she knows what she knows goes unspoken. She expresses her knowledge of reading and writing and, at times, of the law, but she does not explain how she obtains this knowledge or knows what she knows. Her optimism to …


Educator’S Perceptions Of The Impacts Of School Violence On Caribbean Societies, Wendell C. Wallace, Anthony R. Rosales Feb 2019

Educator’S Perceptions Of The Impacts Of School Violence On Caribbean Societies, Wendell C. Wallace, Anthony R. Rosales

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

Globally, school violence plays an ominous role in the education process as it has been widely recognized as having negative impacts. In this context, education in a violence-free environment is a challenge facing some schools, students and teachers in the Caribbean. Internationally, school violence is a relatively well researched area, however, both internationally and in the Caribbean, educator’s perceptions of the impacts of school violence is relatively understudied. This study explores educator’s perceptions of the impacts of school violence on Caribbean societies and offers an interpretive exploration of these perceptions. Self-administered questionnaires were randomly distributed to educators in Antigua and …


Chinese Cubans: Transnational Origins And Revolutionary Integration, Kevin J. Morris Jan 2019

Chinese Cubans: Transnational Origins And Revolutionary Integration, Kevin J. Morris

The Corinthian

The Chinese legacy in Cuba exists in a dual state, at once both a fundamental aspect of the Cuban people and the Cuban nationality while also an oft-overlooked strand in the fabric of Cuban society and culture. While today the official number of Chinese-born Cubans in Cuba is low, the number of Chinese-descendants in Cuba may well number in the hundreds of thousands. This duality merits exploration, as it sheds light on the unique experiences of Chinese Cubans and Chinese-descendants through several eras of Cuban history. Most interestingly, the role and presence of Chinese Cubans in the Cuban Revolution provides …


Detection Of Adsorbed Chlordecone On Microplastics In Marine Sediments In Guadeloupe: A Preliminary Study, Fidji Sandre, Charlotte R. Dromard, Karyn Le Menach, Yolande Bouchon-Navaro, Sébastien Cordonnier, Nathalie Tapie, Hélène Budzinski, Claude Bouchon Jan 2019

Detection Of Adsorbed Chlordecone On Microplastics In Marine Sediments In Guadeloupe: A Preliminary Study, Fidji Sandre, Charlotte R. Dromard, Karyn Le Menach, Yolande Bouchon-Navaro, Sébastien Cordonnier, Nathalie Tapie, Hélène Budzinski, Claude Bouchon

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Plastic pollution in the oceans is recognized as a worldwide problem. Since the 1950s, the production of plastics has been increasing and the first reports of microplastics (particles < 500 μm) in the marine environment began to appear in the 1970s. These particles represent a growing environmental problem due to their dispersion in seawater and marine organisms. Additionally, microparticles in general can adsorb pollutants that will then become bioavailable to organisms by being desorbed during digestion, which could be an important pathway for the contamination of organisms. In Guadeloupe and Martinique, an organochlorine pesticide called “chlordecone” was used from 1972 to 1993 in banana plantations and this very persistent pollutant contaminates soils, rivers, and coastal marine areas and accumulates in marine foodwebs. To examine these issues, we had two goals: 1) to assess the contamination of marine sediments by microplastics surrounding Guadeloupe; and 2) to determine the ability of microplastics to adsorb chlordecone, as has been demonstrated for other organochlorine pollutants. To do so, marine sediments were collected in triplicate from 12 sites in coral reef environments around the island. Microplastics from each sample were then enumerated by size, color and shape under a binocular microscope. The results indicate that microplastics are found in all the studied sites and that their distribution could be linked to marine currents or proximity to areas of significant human activities (port activities, agglomeration, etc.). Finally, our preliminary results indicated that chlordecone could be adsorbed onto microplastics, with a concentration ranging from 0.00036—0.00173 µg/µg of microfilter.


Facing Boldly The Scourge Of Praedial Larceny On Food Production In The Caribbean, Wayne G. Ganpat, Wendy-Ann P. Issac Dec 2018

Facing Boldly The Scourge Of Praedial Larceny On Food Production In The Caribbean, Wayne G. Ganpat, Wendy-Ann P. Issac

Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education

Agricultural crimes or farm theft,commonly referred to as praedial larceny throughout the Caribbean, impacts significantly on food security through high levelsof economic loss. This paper provides an overview of praedial larceny worldwide, losses in the Caribbean region and some evidence from Trinidad and Tobago where the situation is prevalent. The study was guided by the routine activities theory; identifying the types of criminal acts perpetrated, the level of risks posed to farmers and a special emphasis on the concept of guardianship. Data from group discussions and interviews conducted among farmers in two major areas in Trinidad representing different terrain (flat …


The Berenson Schemes: Jack The Castaway, Phyllis Rosen Dec 2018

The Berenson Schemes: Jack The Castaway, Phyllis Rosen

Children's Book and Media Review

When his Aunt Julia dies, eleven-year-old Jack is taken to the Caribbean by his irresponsible parents. They have no concept of protecting or taking care of Jack, but are off on another get-rich-quick scheme. Jack is dragged along and finds himself shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. He has to figure out how to survive while he hopes for rescue. His parents eventually come looking for him, but it is through his own efforts and abilities that he manages to save himself and his parents.


Democracy And Civil Society In Latin America And The Caribbean In A Time Of Change, Susan Appe, Daniel Barragán, Anabel Cruz Dec 2018

Democracy And Civil Society In Latin America And The Caribbean In A Time Of Change, Susan Appe, Daniel Barragán, Anabel Cruz

Gobernar: The Journal of Latin American Public Policy and Governance

No abstract provided.


Education For Wholeness: La Womb De Mi Labor, Ginna Malley Campos Oct 2018

Education For Wholeness: La Womb De Mi Labor, Ginna Malley Campos

Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays

Conventional education teaches and reinforces disconnection from ourselves and disengagement from the world. This presentation considers power, privilege, and the act of listening in educational settings and identity development and explores the importance of holistic education for transforming self and society. Through a personal journey that interweaves the complexities of colonial history, heritage and identity with spirit and healing; we invite all to engage inwardly with the suffering implicit in our existence in order to reconnect with the wholeness that enables our shared journey towards healing.


Jarrod Hayes. Queer Roots For The Diaspora: Ghosts In The Family Tree. Ann Arbor: U Of Michigan P, 2016., Annie De Saussure Jun 2018

Jarrod Hayes. Queer Roots For The Diaspora: Ghosts In The Family Tree. Ann Arbor: U Of Michigan P, 2016., Annie De Saussure

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Jarrod Hayes. Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the family tree. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. 325 pp.


Set And Drift, The U.S. Naval War College Jun 2018

Set And Drift, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.


Naval Option For The Caribbean: The Us Coast Guard, John C. Trainor May 2018

Naval Option For The Caribbean: The Us Coast Guard, John C. Trainor

Naval War College Review

Caribbean countries and territories have become conspicuous in the United States' discussions about areas of national interest. Cuba, of course, has been the subject of discussion for some time, but now it is not alone as an area of concern. Many of the Caribbean countries suffer from political instability, poverty, socioeconomic inequities, and local insecurity, all causing anxieties both in those countries and in our own, because these conditions could be exploited by radical elements wishing to establish C:ommunist governments in our hemisphere, The Soviet Union would, of course, be the ultimate benefactor for any such movements.


Caribbean Coast Guard: A Regional Approach, Robert F. Fenton May 2018

Caribbean Coast Guard: A Regional Approach, Robert F. Fenton

Naval War College Review

For many Americans, pre-1980 thoughts of the Caribbean Basin' were focused exclusively on tourism in an idyllic tropical paradise, While reality never matched that naive simplification, the US action in Grenada in October 1983 capped a series of events that graphically demonstrated the strategic importance of the Caribbean. Before that involvement, revolu­tionary upheavals in Nicaragua and Surinam; guerrilla movements in El Salvador, Guatemala and Colombia; the massive immigrations of Cubans and Haitians in 1980; the debt crisis of tlte Ilasin, and the persistent drumbeat of Cuban adverturism and propaganda already had focused US policy-level attention to a region long regarded …


The Pedagogy Of Difference: Co-Producing Feminist Consciousness Across Borders, Patricia Mohammed Apr 2018

The Pedagogy Of Difference: Co-Producing Feminist Consciousness Across Borders, Patricia Mohammed

Journal of International Women's Studies

How has a movement built on the consciousness of sisterhood become so fragmented between the end of the 20th and into the second decade of the 21st century? As different political tendencies, widely varying economic conditions and cultural dissimilarities emerged in global struggles to achieve diverse visions of women’s and gender equality, the current feminist movement appears to be characterized by chasms between the east, west, north and south rather than viewed as a movement whose basic tenets are parallel across racial, geographic and social barriers. By looking at lived examples of confrontations, and through a deliberate process of self-reflexive …


A Triumphant Victory For Gay Rights In Belize Lays The Foundation For A Domino Effect Throughout The Caribbean, Lauren Tisdale Feb 2018

A Triumphant Victory For Gay Rights In Belize Lays The Foundation For A Domino Effect Throughout The Caribbean, Lauren Tisdale

Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Evolution Of The Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management Network And Forum (Campam): 20 Years Of The Regional Multidimensional Program For Strengthening Mpa Practitioners, Georgina Bustamante, Alessandra Vanzella, Robert Glazer, Ligia Collado-Vides Jan 2018

The Evolution Of The Caribbean Marine Protected Area Management Network And Forum (Campam): 20 Years Of The Regional Multidimensional Program For Strengthening Mpa Practitioners, Georgina Bustamante, Alessandra Vanzella, Robert Glazer, Ligia Collado-Vides

Gulf and Caribbean Research

In 1997, the United Nations Environment’s Caribbean Environment Program (UNEP-CEP) convened a meeting of 50 MPA managers from which CaMPAM was born. Since then, CaMPAM has adaptively evolved into a comprehensive regional program that aims at strengthening Caribbean marine protected areas at the site and national level through a variety of mechanisms. CaMPAM’s original focus was to provide training, information sharing, and communications. Shortly after, grants awarding for learning exchanges and for implementing small projects started. Partnerships were established with interested organizations. Some collaborators became mentors and served as instructors and activities' coordinators.These tools allowed the capacity building program to …


A New Island Species Of Centruroides Marx, 1890 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) From The Southwestern Caribbean, Rolando Teruel, Brandon Myers Dec 2017

A New Island Species Of Centruroides Marx, 1890 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) From The Southwestern Caribbean, Rolando Teruel, Brandon Myers

Euscorpius

Herein we describe a new species of the Buthidae scorpion genus Centruroides Marx, 1890. It occurs at least in two small offshore islands of the southwestern Caribbean: Cozumel in Mexico and Guanaja in Honduras, based upon type specimens from the former and photographic evidence from the latter. It belongs in the "gracilis" species-group and is most closely related to both Centruroides gracilis (Latreille, 1805) and Centruroides nigrescens (Pocock, 1898).


The Impact Of Farm Visits On Farmers’ Satisfaction With Extension: Examining The Dependence On Individual Methods In The Caribbean, Wayne G. Ganpat, Lendel K. Narine, Amy Harder Dec 2017

The Impact Of Farm Visits On Farmers’ Satisfaction With Extension: Examining The Dependence On Individual Methods In The Caribbean, Wayne G. Ganpat, Lendel K. Narine, Amy Harder

Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education

This research sought to investigate the dependence on farm visits in selected Caribbean islands, and estimate the impact of such visits on farmers’ satisfaction with extension. The study utilized a causal-comparative design using a convenience sample from six major farming countries in the Eastern Caribbean. Descriptive frequencies, ANOVA, principal factor analysis, and hierarchical OLS regression models were presented. It appears the low use of alternate approaches to disseminate information to eastern Caribbean farmers has led to a dependency on farm visits. This is unsustainable primarily because of its high cost, given the financial constraints of countries. Results indicated that while …


Occurrence Of A Colorful Prejuvenile Mountain Mullet (Agonostomus Monticola) In Brackish Water Of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, Robert E. Schmidt, Erin R. Mcmullin Jan 2017

Occurrence Of A Colorful Prejuvenile Mountain Mullet (Agonostomus Monticola) In Brackish Water Of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, Robert E. Schmidt, Erin R. Mcmullin

Gulf and Caribbean Research

Brightly colored prejuvenile Mountain mullet (Agonostomus monticola) immigrating into brackish water on Montserrat are described. Mugilidae may be unique among Caribbean amphidromous fishes in having a brightly colored pelagic marine stage.


To Be Dragon And Man: The Cultural Politics Of Carnival In Earl Lovelace’S The Dragon Can’T Dance, Richard Mcguire Dec 2016

To Be Dragon And Man: The Cultural Politics Of Carnival In Earl Lovelace’S The Dragon Can’T Dance, Richard Mcguire

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

This paper argues that it is important to realise that Trinidadian author Earl Lovelace’s 1979 novel The Dragon Can’t Dance presents an implicit but identifiable stratigraphic history of Trinidadian carnival practices in formal, social and political development, from European and African origins, through the colonial era, to independence in 1962 and beyond. To be able to identify how Lovelace relates the political development of Trinidadian carnival is to be positioned to analyse, crucially, why his novel presents its main narrative as detailing in particular with a crisis of social and cultural politics in post-independence, contemporary Trinidad from the late 1950s …


The Trope Of Flattening And The Complexities Of Difference: An Account Of Trinidad Carnival, Nanette De Jong, Christian Mieves Dec 2016

The Trope Of Flattening And The Complexities Of Difference: An Account Of Trinidad Carnival, Nanette De Jong, Christian Mieves

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

This paper critiques the position of flattening as an alternative way to map and analyse power structures in Trinidad Carnival. As will be argued, traditional hierarchies of meaning and value invert in Carnival, with participants using masquerade and the visual arts to perform and critique the contradictions of Trinidad society, and to make or unmake categories of difference. Flattening, as the authors argue, is particularly well suited when speaking about Carnival, whose cultural frames are constantly blurred, stretched, erased or redrawn, and where distortions of social and cultural distinctions are realised visually. Furthermore, flattening emphasises the elasticity and fluidity …


(Re)Imagining Haiti Through The Eyes Of A Seven-Year-Old Girl, Iliana Rosales Figueroa Jul 2016

(Re)Imagining Haiti Through The Eyes Of A Seven-Year-Old Girl, Iliana Rosales Figueroa

Journal of International Women's Studies

Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat’s new novel Claire of the Sea Light (2013) explores themes of love, loss, and death. The first character that is presented to us is Claire of the Sea Light, a seven-year-old girl, whose mother died giving birth to her and who is missing. It is at the intersection of this little girl’s loss that all the other characters and topics unfold. Madame Gaëlle, an upper class woman who has a fabric shop in Ville Rose, decides to adopt Claire in order to give her a better life. In this essay I demonstrate that Edwidge Danticat articulates …


Reassessing Caribbean Migration: Love, Power And (Re) Building In The Diaspora, Andrea Natasha Baldwin, Natasha K. Mortley Jul 2016

Reassessing Caribbean Migration: Love, Power And (Re) Building In The Diaspora, Andrea Natasha Baldwin, Natasha K. Mortley

Journal of International Women's Studies

Traditional research has framed Caribbean migration as a socio-economic issue including discourses on limited resources, brain drain, remittances, and diaspora/transnational connection to, or longing for home. This narrative usually presents migration as having a destabilizing effect on Caribbean families, households and communities, more specifically the impacts on the relationships of working class women who migrate leaving behind children, spouses and other dependents because of a lack of opportunities in Caribbean. This paper proposes an alternative view of migration as a source/manifestation of women’s power, where women, as active agents within the migration process, in fact contribute to re building relationships, …


A Subtlety By Kara Walker: Teaching Vulnerable Art, Marika Preziuso Jul 2016

A Subtlety By Kara Walker: Teaching Vulnerable Art, Marika Preziuso

Journal of International Women's Studies

In late Spring 2014, the nonprofit organization Creative Time commissioned artist Kara Walker to create her first large-scale public installation. Hosted in the industrial relics of the legendary Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, Walker’s A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby was as controversial as it was revered. The powerful presence of the installation, coupled with its immersion in historical consciousness, makes A Subtlety rich in educational value. This article engages in a comparative reading of A Subtlety in the light of female writers and thinkers from the Caribbean, but also incorporates some of the generative questions Walker’s installation has …


C. L. R. James, The Revolutionary Left In Imperial Britain, And The Archives Of Decolonization, Marc Matera May 2016

C. L. R. James, The Revolutionary Left In Imperial Britain, And The Archives Of Decolonization, Marc Matera

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

Review of Christian Høgsbjerg. C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain.


On The Distribution Of The Genus Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) In The Southern Caribbean Islands, Rolando Teruel, Michiel A.C. Cozijn Jan 2016

On The Distribution Of The Genus Rhopalurus Thorell, 1876 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) In The Southern Caribbean Islands, Rolando Teruel, Michiel A.C. Cozijn

Euscorpius

In the present note, we report on the occurrence of the genus Rhopalurus Thorell, 1898, in the southern Caribbean islands offshore Venezuela. The only published records are from Isla Margarita and Los Roques, but our study of new specimens (including an important collection assembled by the late Pieter Wagenaar Hummelinck) proved this genus to be widely distributed along several archipelagos such as Los Testigos, Los Frailes, and Los Hermanos, as well as the larger, separate islands of Margarita, Cubagua, La Tortuga, and Coche. These specimens are tentatively referred here to Rhopalurus laticauda Thorell, 1876, but their precise identity still warrants …


Spiritan Magazine Vol. 40 No. 1 Jan 2016

Spiritan Magazine Vol. 40 No. 1

Spiritan Magazine

No abstract provided.


Unilateral Responses To Tax Treaty Abuse: A Functional Approach, Omri Marian Jan 2016

Unilateral Responses To Tax Treaty Abuse: A Functional Approach, Omri Marian

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the attention given to abusive tax schemes that take advantage of bilateral tax treaties. The ensuing discourse tends to view potential responses to treaty abuses as a hierarchical set of options, gradually escalating, in which treaty termination is a last resort option. This article argues that the hierarchical view of unilateral responses to treaty abuse is misguided. Unilateral responses to treaty-based abuse are not hierarchically ordered. Rather, the approach to treaty abuse is (and should be) functional, adopting specific types of unilateral responses based on the type of treaty abuse …


Pelagic Sargassum In The Tropical North Atlantic, James S. Franks, Donald R. Johnson, Dong S. Ko Jan 2016

Pelagic Sargassum In The Tropical North Atlantic, James S. Franks, Donald R. Johnson, Dong S. Ko

Gulf and Caribbean Research

No abstract provided.


Fighting Madness, Making Caribbeanness: Kelly Baker Josephs's Disturbers Of The Peace: Representations Of Madness In Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Sheri-Marie L. Harrison Dec 2015

Fighting Madness, Making Caribbeanness: Kelly Baker Josephs's Disturbers Of The Peace: Representations Of Madness In Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Sheri-Marie L. Harrison

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

Review of Kelly Baker Josephs's Disturbers of The Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature