Jamaica

Jamaica ( (listen)) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic); the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands lies some 215 kilometres (134 mi) to the north-west. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the …

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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 5 April 2024

Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores …

Wayde Compton.xiv | xv As far away as I was in Jamaica, over two thousand nautical miles from Vancouver travelled from Vancouver, Canada, to Kingston, Jamaica, and now to Edmonton, Alberta. (I will now have assumptive of all. Consider one last example. In Jamaica in the early 1970s a new art form was brewing industrial by-product: the dub side of a record. Jamaica, though a small country, had one of the most prolific


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 27 March 2024 English

The report follows the publication of Safe at Work, Unsafe at Home: COVID-19 and Temporary Foreign Workers in Prince Edward Island in 2021 and Unfree Labour: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers …

2023a). Most of these workers originate from Jamaica, Mexico, Guatemala, and India (Statistics Canada Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Care Denied When Kerian Burnett, a migrant from Jamaica, was diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer working with people from other nations, such as Jamaica, Guatemala, Barbados, the Philippines, and Canada


Childcare Resource and Research Unit · 2 March 2024 English

For the first time, the assessment goes beyond the laws on the books—de jure—to examine the frameworks supporting implementation of the law and to gauge experts’ opinions on the outcome …

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AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 2 March 2024 English

Women Biomass Producers: Energy’s Largest and Largely Invisible Workforce While much of the attention regarding the energy sector is paid to the workers (predominantly male) who labor in the oil …

experiences and lessons learned from this initiative in Jamaica. Click here to learn more about the outcomes of


ACT: AIDS Committee of Toronto · 21 February 2024 English

In the event of any dispute between bidders, a missed bid, or in the event of doubt as the validity of any bid, the auctioneer will have, at their discretion, …

conveyed individuals who challenged gender norms. Jamaica is said to be one the most transphobic places on PRIZM Art Fair, BAND Gallery, National Gallery of Jamaica, United Contemporary, Peel Art Museum and Archives


C.D. Howe Institute · 12 February 2024 English

Between July 2022 and July 2023, population surged 2.9 percent, one of the fastest rates in the world and our highest since the 1957 baby boom peak. [...] This mismatch …

Rethink Immigration In the 1970s, my family left our Jamaica home and arrived in Canada, enamoured with Prime


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 5 February 2024 English

The federal the risk of stranded assets in the economy and raises the cost government must adopt a mission-oriented transition of transitioning over the long term. [...] The impacts of …

conditions. As in ers from Mexico, Guatemala, Jamaica and other countries of previous crises, the challenges


CASP: Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention · 31 January 2024 English

Jitender Sareen, Chair of the Association of Chairs of Psychiatry of Canada, Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba; Provincial Specialty Lead, Mental Health and Addictions …

Research, Northern Caribbean University, Mandeville, Jamaica Professor Stéphane Amadeo, Associate Professor


DDN: Dundurn Press · 23 January 2024 English

Through luminescent light, ancestral paths, and a Caribbean spirit-inflected world, Naniki explores the musings and inner workings of the deep blue — the Caribbean Sea — and its shape-shifting sea …

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PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 13 January 2024 English

HTM The world stands with South Africa in this case even though, at the end of the day, the struggles of the peoples of the world will not be resolved …

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