...Akari Devonish Caribbean Studies Culture is the beliefs or customs of a society. There can be two distinctive types of culture, material culture which consists of all tangible things created by the members of society like architecture, cuisine etc. and non material culture which comprises society’s belief and norms like music and religion. In recent times however, due to the increase of development and modernization, many traditional practices can be erased, retained or even renewed. We can see these changes in the Caribbean, especially in Barbados. Culture erasure refers to the process of gradually removing various traditions from society. This usually comes from newer generations having little or no interest in certain traditions. In the Caribbean the majority of young adults prefer foreign music, clothes and even sports. For example, there is a severe decline in people who would prefer to listen to calypso over foreign music. In terms of sports, there has also been a reduction of cricket fans. In the past there were masses of people who flocked to the cricket grounds to watch the West Indies. Those who didn’t were usually at home watching from their television or listening to it on the radio. In modern times, other sports like football, has gained a massive increase in popularity over cricket. In addition, the advances of technology can have an effect on the rate of culture erasure as well. Although they might save much needed time and energy, the introduction of various...
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...According to Dr Kumar Mahabir (2012), “traditional medicine versus alternative medicine is a subject of great scrutiny and speculation within the medical field and the general public. Though there are some medical experts who do embrace the use of natural therapies and products, the vast majority of physicians today still ridicule and belittle the use of alternative medicine despite its ever growing popularity.” Though traditional and alternative medicines both share the same objective — to keep the body strong and healthy, it is important to look at the positives and negatives within both branches of medicine before you completely discard it. A combination of the two, I believe, would be beneficial within our healthcare system (Daily Express, 2012). In his latest book, ‘Traditional Medicine and Woman Healers in Trinidad’, Dr Mahabir explores the many facets of traditional and alternative medicine used in Trinidad. He focuses on both the formal and informal health care systems in Trinidad and Tobago as it pertains to post natal health care (Daily Express, 2012). “It is perhaps the first time these traditional practices have ever been documented in such detail. This type of medicine is still widely practised in Trinidad and Tobago however the numbers of traditional healers are decreasing. This is so because of the stigma attached to alternative medicine. It is considered not to be scientific and it does not have the prestige as conventional medicine does so you find that the young ones...
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... Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is a one paragraph story about a how a Caribbean mother teaches her daughter to be independent in her own way. Written in 1978, “Girl” teaches the lessons of a typical Caribbean woman in her short literary pieces. Kincaid’s story explicitly defining the roles of a woman in a manner to Kincaid’s may appear sexiest and seem to limit what a woman cannot do. However, Kincaid’s piece empowered allots various degrees of power, freedom and control to woman. In the story, a mother was giving her daughter advice about life, cooking, cleaning, men, and keeping up her reputation. Firstly, the mother stressed on woman and ferminity. She said “ this is how you iron your father’s Khaki pants so that they don’t have crease; this is how grow okra-far from the house, this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house, this is how you sweep a yard” (14). Here the she meant that ferminity means hard work but not just makeup and high heels but rather cleaning the house; keeping the house nice and neat. Accoording the mother being a woman synonymous with keeping a house clean and wants to pass it from generation to generation. Although ironing, preparing food, and house cleaning are traditional feminine roles and may seem insignificant, it should be not be forgotten that these roles cannot be ignored as a woman in Caribbean culture and some part of the world. The mother seems to be serious on telling her daughter...
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...Traditional Home Remedies Of Guyana By Dmitri Allicock “A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his thought to derive benefit from his illnesses” [Hippocrates -father of Western Medicine] If you grew up in Guyana you would certainly be acquainted with some of these common over the –counter- medicines and remedies that brought relief for various afflictions and ailments. Corner stores carried a wide array of medicines found only in the Caribbean and Guyana. These were augmented with herbal medicines and treatments before a visit to the doctor was attempted. Home remedies have been around for thousands of years. Even these days about 30 per cent of prescription drugs are still synthesised from plants. In fact, the word 'drug' comes from an old Dutch word, drogge, which means 'to dry' - which is how many plant medications were prepared. However, it is always wise to remember, just because something is "naturally" growing from a tree, doesn't mean it's safe to consume. Our grandparents and older folks would swear of the healing properties of herbs, leaves, roots and seeds that cured diseases which they contracted. The fact that our ancestors survived proved that some of the many remedies used then, did work and have increasing practical applications today. Arrowroot is a common plant of Guyana. Napoleon supposedly said the reason for the British love of arrowroot was to support the commerce of their...
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...figures, from obeah practitioners to those of the higher echelons of the Roman Catholic Church. This suggests that Buffong sets her hopes on a return to an African-based spirituality in harmony with nature and community, illustrated by the novel’s nature symbolism and African-Caribbean religions and folklore. In Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz develops the idea that “cultures themselves can be[come] ill” from a brutal history of colonial conquest and slavery (1). The colonists’ violent disruption and dislocation of African communities were compounded by the psychological violence caused by the repression of the root culture and the imposition of the dominant culture; conditions which laid the foundation for sick Caribbean communities. Members of these communities suffer from the identity crises caused by the conflict between Western materialism and African spirituality. Although the enslaved Africans clung to their culture to maintain an identity in opposition to that of the colonizer, their descendants were lured into assimilation by promises of material wellbeing and social mobility under the condition that they submerge their traditional African worldview. However in the context of the traditional African worldview, the spiritual cannot be submerged without causing serious psychological or physical harm. Physical and...
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...The Significance of Africanisms by Melville Herskovits is an in depth analysis of African Cultural survivals among the Negroes of the United States. The article involves far more than the traditional linking relationship of traits of Africa and the West Indies. The article examines the resistance and spiritual survival of African Culture among the black Diaspora in the United States. While at the same timeexpounding the scope and the significance of African culture by providing a fertile concept of Africanism that reflects the unique manner in which each black individual of the Diaspora envisions African Cultural retention. Herskovits in his writing posits that the retention of the African cultural has been long lost in the American Culture; however this observation is not the same in the Caribbean/West Indian context. The West Indian retention of the African Culture is evident in many of the religious practices that are still being done in the Caribbean, some of which are Revivalism, Pucho, Voodoo (Vodun), Keele, Santeria, Shouter Baptist and Komfa (Cumfa). These are some of the ways in which West Indians have retained many of the cultural practices of their African ancestors. In his writing Herskovits argued that “for the negro to appreciate his past he has to endow confidence in his own position in his country and by extension the world. He must have scientific facts concerning the ancestral cultures of Africa and the survivals of Africanisms in the New World. In the article...
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...ARATILES Muntingia Calabura is the one of herbal medicine of the stomach ache... Here are its benefits to your health: Not only is its fruit has a nice taste, but it has tetapin which can also be processed into syrups, jams, and juices. This fruit, by consuming as many as 9 points each 3 times a day, is believed to treat GOUT. The aratiles leaves also are beneficial as an antiseptic. Compounds contain tannins, flavonoids, saponins capable of killing a variety of bacteria. Moreover its leaves when boiled to make a tea, can also be used as an anti-inflammatory agent. Aratiles leaf flavonoid compounds are found to inhibit the growth of cancer cells in vitro. Aratiles leaves can be presented in the form of tea, that is by leaving it to dry and then brew with hot water. So many benefits to the Aratiles fruit that it's considered a shame if people just let it fall useless. With proper treatment, this fruit is able to meet the body's nutritional needs and prevent disease Muntingia calabura, the sole species in the genus Muntingia, is a flowering plant native to southern Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and western South America south to Peru and Bolivia.[1] Common names include (English) Jamaican cherry, Panama berry, Singapore cherry, Bajelly tree, Strawberry tree; (Spanish) bolaina, yamanaza, cacaniqua, capulín blanco, nigua, niguito, memizo or memiso; (Indonesia) kersen, talok; (Vietnamese) (cây) Trứng cá; and (Filipino) aratilis,and sarisa. leaves and...
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...Sector in Sub−Saharan Africa No.252 The World Bank/FAO/UNIDO/Industry Fertilizer Working Group, World and Regional Supply and Demand Balances for Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash, 1992/93−1998/99 No.253 Jensen and Malter, Protected Agriculture: A Global Review No.254 Frischtak, Governance Capacity and Economic Reform in Developing Countries No.255 Mohan, editor, Bibliography of Publications: Technical Department, Africa Region, July 1987 to April 1994 No.256 Campbell, Design and Operation of Smallholder Irrigation in South Asia No.258 De Geyndt, Managing the Quality of Health Care in Developing Countries No.259 Chaudry, Reid, and Malik, editors, Civil Service Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Proceedings of a Conference No.260 Humphrey, Payment Systems: Principles, Practice, and Improvements No.261 Lynch, Provision for Children with Special Educational Needs in the Asia Region No.262 Lee and Bobadilla,...
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...this virus contribute to making it spread faster, become deadlier, and leaves no one unaffected. HIV/AIDS reaches the young and the old, the rich and the poor, and those in developed and undeveloped countries. Education about the virus and how it is approached to different people also affects how it is spread, several cultural factors come into play as to how effective it is in preventing future contraction of the virus. The cultural perceptions of the virus also affect how the virus is researched and how medicines are developed for it. Religion also plays a role in how the virus is spread and can have an impact on how those who are researching the disease research it. The spread of HIV/AIDS is affected by several factors the main ones being the approach of education taken, cultural perceptions of the disease, and religion. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a disease in 1981 (Kshatriya, 2005, pg. 69). Before 1981 it was found in the Caribbean and in African countries but it wasn’t until those first cases in the United States were diagnosed that the disease was officially recognized. HIV/AIDS exploded in America in the early 80’s, and initially they thought that AIDS was a “gay disease” and called it GRID standing for “gay related immune disease” (Lovell, 2011, pg. 111). This caused an initial stigmatization of the disease due to the association with homosexuality. Later cases of HIV/AIDS were found in intravenous drug users and their children...
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...Foreign Study According to Vynaise`s blog ,Mulching is a process that prevents loss of moisture on the plants, suppresses weed growth, reduces fertilizer leaching, cools the soil and keeps the vegetables off the ground. Mulching is really helpful for gardeners because it reduces watering by about 60 percent, it also keeps the soil from drying out, prevents weed seed germination that competes with the plants' nutrients and minerals. Basically, there are two types of mulches, first is the organic mulch and second is the inorganic mulch. It uses straw or dried leaves, pebbles and or gravels respectively. Then these materials are then spread to the soil. Mulching serves as a barrier between the root of the plant and from the soil. In addition to this, soil loss from heavy rainfall is decreased due to mulching. Pomelo is a native fruit to southeast Asia, grows wildly on the riverbanks in Fiji, Tonga and Hawaii. It may have been introduced to China around 100 B.C. It is widely cultivated in southern China, Thailand, also in Taiwan and southernmost Japan. The pulp color ranges between clear pale yellow to pink to red , tastes sweet, mild grapefruit especially when it is already ripe. It has very litle or none of the common grapefruits bitterness but the membranes of the segments are bitter and usually discarded. It is the thickest and largest citrus fruit; growing as large as 30cm in diameter and weighing as much as 10kg; the peelings are thick and is sometimes used as to make marmalade...
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...e-Health in South Korea e-Health: Strategy and Best Practices In contrast to its e-government and general e-service strategies, Korea’s e-health program was regarded by the WHO as only moderately effective in 2006. Despite starting in 2003 the Korean Program has only now beginning to gain momentum. Up until 2008 the e-Health Association has developed led by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy have focused on developing on what it sees as the five core pillars for a successful u-Health industry by 2013. These areas are: Standardization Law and policy planning and reform Human resource development, e.g. access to medical knowledgeR&D for e-health products International collaboration Despite some work by the various Ministries on defining their domestic requirements in terms of electronic health records , e-prescriptions, etc., there has been little real progress on e-health in Korea and many healthcare facilities lack appropriate ICT based information tools. According to a consumer survey in 2007 the poor level of informatization in healthcare this apparent lack of progress can be attributed to the fact that e–health was not seen as part of the overall e-government strategy and the structure and parlous state of the health sector in Korea following the rapid introduction of universal health insurance. Following the reorganization of government ministries in 2008 (under the new government administration); e-health attention has begun to focus on...
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...to be relocated to a nearby coastal islet with a healthier environment; it was renamed Puerto Rico ("Rich Port") for its harbor, among the world's best natural bays. The two names were switched over the centuries: the island became Puerto Rico and its capital San Juan. The United States anglicized the name to "Porto Rico" when it occupied the island in 1898 after the Spanish-American War. This spelling was discontinued in 1932. Puerto Ricans are a Caribbean people who regard themselves as citizens of a distinctive island nation in spite of their colonial condition and U.S. citizenship. This sense of uniqueness also shapes their migrant experience and relationship with other ethnoracial groups in the United States. However, this cultural nationalism coexists with a desire for association with the United States as a state or in the current semiautonomous commonwealth status. Location and Geography. Puerto Rico is the easternmost and smallest of the Greater Antilles, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Basin to the south. Puerto Rico is a crucial hemispheric access point. It was thus a valuable acquisition for European powers and the United States. Puerto Rico retains its strategic importance, housing the U.S. Army Southern Command and other military facilities. Since the 1940s, the U.S. Navy has used its offshore islands for military maneuvers that have damaged their ecology, economy, and quality of life. Puerto Rico includes the surrounding...
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...Name: Damani Allen School: Ardenne High School Teacher: Mr. Malcolm Theme: Education Topic: E- Learning in Schools Date: November 17, 2014 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Literature Review 5 Data Collection 7 Presentation of Data 8 Analysis of Data 15 Discussion of Findings 17 Conclusion 19 Appendix: Questionnaire 20 Bibliography 23 Introduction “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This quote remained true for generations and ‘great men’ are still being made. But, in this technological age we have ‘great men’ who have not spent much time toiling in the night. Their success was as a result of taking a risk, an unexpected opportunity and a creative, innovative mind that invented a demand. We are able to create new jobs and improve the current jobs available with this new technology. Therefore we need to focus on using technology to improve education; this will impact the types and quality of jobs in the near future as well as the workers in our country. The future leaders of Jamaica, at the secondary level, are at the stage in their lives to choose the profession they will pursue. So they need to learn and be equipped to take on the challenge of the working world. But there are different types of learners and to accommodate all types of learning, the school must develop...
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...Micro-Macro Linkages Between Gender, Development, and Growth: Implications for the Caribbean Region Stephanie Seguino Professor, Department of Economics Old Mill 340 University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05401 Tel. 1 802 656-0187 Fax 1 802 656-8405 Email sseguino@zoo.uvm.edu July 2008 Acknowledgements: I am grateful for helpful comments and insights from Rhoda Reddock, Christine Barrow, Caren Grown, three anonymous referees, and participants at the Building Capacity for Gender Analysis in Policy Making, Programme Development, and Implementation: Research Seminar and Workshop, University of West Indies, Barbados, November 2007. Micro-Macro Linkages Between Gender, Development, and Growth: Implications for the Caribbean Region Abstract Over the last two decades, scholars have investigated the two-way relationship between gender inequality on the one hand, and economic development and growth on the other. Research in this area offers new ways to address the economic stagnation and crisis developing countries have experienced over the last two decades. This paper contributes to that literature, exploring the channels by which gender inequality affects, and in important ways, constrains economic development and growth in the Caribbean region. It further explores the endogeneity of gender inequality to the macroeconomic policy environment. The paper concludes with a discussion of economic policies that can promote a win-win outcome—greater gender...
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...given equal opportunity to perform through a uniform feeding and management regime. Record of economically important traits, adjusted 210 day weight, average daily gain adjusted 400 day weight and weight per day of age on all animals are systematically maintained. These records when statistically analyzed are used as the objective measures (indices) in selecting replacements and eliminating poor producers. 48 Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute Category Activity Description Agro-Industry/Agriculture Animal Production and Sam Motta's Goats and Sheep Demonstration and Marketing Systems Training Centre Animal Production and Hounslow Goats and Sheep Demonstration and Training Marketing Systems Centre Animal Production and Small Ruminant Production and Marketing Systems Marketing Systems Development Crop Production and Marketing Systems Livestock Feeds and Feeding systems Enhanced Hot Pepper Production Feeding Systems development for ruminants Education/Research PROCICARIBE PROCICARIBE Caribbean Integrated Pest Management Network Caribbean Small Ruminant Network (CASRUNet) Soil and Water Management Studies in the Rio Minho Valley Project Environment Hillside Farming Systems of Jamaica and the OECS Integrated Pest Management Integrated Pest Management Integrated Pest Management Integrated Pest Management Integrated Pest and Pesticides Management...
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