The question must be asked firstly‚ not what if the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice is a sound move but what exactly is the Caribbean Court of Justice. As many perceive the CCJ as it is commonly referred to‚ would be a replacement to the previous Privy Council; which was and still is in some Caribbean states the last court of appeal. The Privy Council is considered to be one of the oldest institutions of government. “It has many roles which include giving advice on the exercise of
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A comparison of political systems is done to deepen our understanding of our own institutions‚ as well as to expand our awareness and views on other political alternatives. But what is a political system. David Easton (A System Analysis of Political Life‚ 1965) defined a political system as that "behavior or set of interactions through which authoritative allocations are made and implemented for society". Simply put it’s a set of institutions and agencies that implement goals of a society. The
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Pastoral counselors are clergy who have received graduate training in both religion and behavioral science for a clinical practice that integrates psychological and theological disciplines. Pastoral counselors believe that there is a God in whose image and likeness we are created. They believe that we yearn for a transforming connection with the divine‚ and that psychotherapy can mediate the loving and healing nature of being itself. Pastoral counselors also make therapeutic use of traditional
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Before there was the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM)‚ there was the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). CARIFTA was intended to encourage balanced development of the region by increasing‚ diversifying and liberating trade‚ also ensuring fair CARIFTA was limited as the free trade area was not enough to garner the desired economic efficiency. According to Bernal (2007) “... it did not provide for free movement of labour and capital‚ or for the coordination of agricultural‚ industrial and
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Question: Examine the methods employed by planters to induce "labourers" to work on sugar estates after emancipation. Full emancipation of the slaves was achieved in 1838 in the British West Indies and 1848 in the French colonies. The post-emancipation period was viewed with fear by planters who believed that mass of ex-slaves would exodus the plantations‚ robbing them of their labour supply. In many cases this was so. However‚ one can argue that the British West Indies experienced a greater labour
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Sink or swim: Royal Caribbean Cruises Limited made efforts to adapt to the paradigm shift of Information Technology and its function within the ever-growing cruise line industry Jesse Brothers Abstract Royal Caribbean Cruises Limited (RCCL) was founded in 1969. They currently operate under the brands of Royal Caribbean International‚ Celebrity Cruises and Pullmantor. Predominantly known as the second largest cruise ship company behind Carnival
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Question 1: Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of functionalist explanations as applied to the study of contemporary society. Support your response with details and examples from studies conducted in the Caribbean on stratification. Functionalism is a consensus perspective that sees society as based on shared values into which members are socialized. It sees society as like an organism‚ each part performing functions to maintain the system as a whole. For example‚ religion‚ the education system
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Section A Theme 2 – Caribbean Economy and Slavery The West African Coast was the source of the Caribbean’s labour from the 1500s to the 1800s much to the detriment of Africa’s Development and Progress. Justify this statement outlining and assessing the way(s) in which the slave trade impacted West African societies. (35 marks) Slavery is commonly defined as “the condition in which one human being owns another”. A slave is consequently considered the property of that person and is thus deprived
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for a witch or wise-woman. Creolization‚ as a term‚ also has multiple meanings. These meanings are based on different aspects of the mixing of cultures. This can be a mixing or change in religion‚ music‚ food‚ and skin color. The latter being the one most often adjoined with the term creolization or Creole. Lorna Goodison outlines features and the story of her great grandmother and grandmother as a way to show creolization. Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s piece Creolization in Jamaica
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Creole Society There is a vast range of cultural diversity in the Caribbean today. In this paper‚ I would be discussing the similarities and differences found between the plantation society model and the Creole society model. The plantation model was developed in the late 1960’s. According to the book Mustapha (2009)‚ the plantation system played a dominant role in the economic‚ social‚ political and cultural life of the Caribbean. George Beckford (1972) saw the plantation system as a total economic
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