joint-stock company‚ the Virginia Company of London‚ received a charter form King James I for a settlement in the New World a. The main attraction was the promise of gold‚ combined with a strong desire to find a passage through America to the Indies b. Like most joint-stock companies‚ it was intended to last for only a few years‚ after which its owners hoped to liquidate it for profit c. The arrangement put severe pressure on the colonists‚ who were threatened with abandonment if
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the Carbbean island of Barbados‚was debating about what to do about a request from the West indies Cricket Board. The Board wanted to book a large block of rooms more than six months ahead‚during several of the hotel’s busiest times‚and was asking for discount. In return‚it promised to promote the Accra Beach in all advertising materials and television broadcasts as the host hotel for the upcoming West Indies Cricket Series‚an important international sporting event. The Accra Beach Hotel and Resort
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revolution. The sugar revolution changed the Lesser Antilles completely. It was not just that sugar replaced tobacco as the chief crop: the population changed from white to black‚ the size of landholdings changed‚ and eventually the West Indies became ‘the cockpit of Europe’. The list of changes the sugar revolution brought is almost inexhaustible. The sugar revolution is most clearly demonstrated in the history of Barbados where it occurred in roughly ten years‚ 1640 to
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45‚ Silla’s past). These brownstones are symbols of advancement for immigrants as they seek to establish themselves in New York. These brownstones were first owned by the upper class whites who now rent‚ lease or sell them to immigrants from the West Indies in order to move to more developed housing facilities as a result of the war. Selina‚ the protagonist‚ is in search of her own identity. She remembers little or nothing about Barbados and hopes that she can be apart of the white family who inhabited
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The Planting of English America 1500-1733 The Spanish were at Santa Fe in 1610. The French were at Quebec in 1608. The English were at Jamestown‚ Virginia in 1607. England’s Imperial Stirrings King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s‚ launching the English Protestant Reformation‚ and intensifying the rivalry with Catholic Spain. Elizabeth Energizes England In 1580‚ Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe‚ plundering and returning with his ship loaded with
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The University of the West Indies Open Campus‚ Jamaica Western 2A Camp Road Kingston 4 Supervisory Management Course Research Project Questionnaire The objective of this Questionnaire is to determine how discipline and grievances are handled within the Collections Department of Unicomer (formerly Courts Jamaica Ltd.)‚ if the Organization deviates from general principles in solving discipline and grievances and how the Organization can improve on the current practices based on the country’s
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O.G.A.) St. Andrew St. Hugh’s Excelsior Shortwood Lincoln W.O.G.A. built a hard court at Cavaliers‚ the first hard court for netball in Jamaica. The Jamaica Netball Association became affiliated to the West Indies Netball Board in 1959‚ and was invited to send a team to the West Indies Tournament in Montserrat in August 1959. First Jamaican Netball Team - 1959 Grace Beckford-Benjamin Marie Beckford-Miller Monica Brown-Mendes Barbara Buckley-Jones‚ Ph. D. Hermione Edmonds-Whittaker Valerie
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of Trinidad. As a result‚ these individuals placed a great emphasis on the education of the masses and constructed many schools on the islands. Perhaps the most evident and successful sign of these efforts was the birth of the University of the West Indies‚ which has greatly aided in the creation of a Caribbean intelligentsia. However‚ recently‚ the rapid acceptance of this model has come into question. To what extent has it been successful in the Caribbean? Firstly‚ the Human Capital Theory was
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Renowned Jamaican scientist Dr. Manley West Dr West was a scientist. He taught pharmaco-logy at the University of the West Indies‚ Mona. Significantly‚ with Dr Albert Lockhart‚ he developed Canasol‚ a drug for the treatment of the eye disease‚ glaucoma‚ from cannabis‚ or ganja. Born in Portland‚ West attended the Titchfield High School. He graduated from the University of London‚ England‚ in 1967 with a Doctor of Philosophy in pharmacology. His career at the UWI began as assistant lecturer
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Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) The idea of a Caribbean Supreme Court is not a new one. From as early as the beginning of the 20th century‚ opinions were being expressed in support of such a court and at a meeting in 1947‚ West Indian governors reflected on the need for a West Indian Court of Appeal. Since then‚ at varying intervals suggestions were made for such a supreme court. At the 12th Inter-Sessional Meeting of The Conference in 2001‚ Bridgetown‚ Barbados‚ the Heads
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