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    Apiculture in Jamaica

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    An Overview of the Beekeeping Industry in Jamaica Mona School of Business – University of the West Indies Course Title: Foundation Skills in Graduate Management Education Course Code: SBCO6000 Lecturer: Mr. Claude Robinson Due Date: July 8‚ 2012 ID#: 620051236 (Cohort 16) MEMORANDUM UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES‚ MONA To: Mr. Claude Robinson Associate Teaching Fellow‚ Mona School of Business From: La-Shaun Latore Student‚ Cohort 16‚ Mona School of Business

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    Violence in Jamaica

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    the few. These are the things of which problems are made. When we deliberate on the Jamaican society‚ we can see problems of varied sorts‚ economic and social. As an attempt at maintaining clarity‚ the focus will be on social problems to be seen in Jamaica. Greater emphasis will be placed on the problems of crime and violence‚ unemployment‚ adolescent pregnancy‚ and poverty. The question is asked as to whether or not these social problems are attributed to a lack of ethical teaching and practice. The

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    Jamaica Kincaid's Girl

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    not fit the archetypical picture of their strict gender-biased boundaries is shunned and stereotyped. A woman who does not embody the perception of the perfect wife and mother‚ especially in the 1950s-60s‚ would have been considered unladylike. In Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”‚ the matters of womanhood and femininity are expressed as a mother teaches her daughter the rules and restrictions that come along with being a lady‚ especially those that will help her to be accepted in society. Though this story

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    Homeownership in Jamaica

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    “MEETING NEEDS‚ MEANS AND DREAMS: THE HOME OWNERSHIP CHALLENGE IN JAMAICA.” The late Honourable Donald Buchanan‚ former Minister of Water and Housing‚ stated in the 2004 Sectoral Presentation‚ that “home ownership is a Jamaican dream. “It confers on our people a sense of self and identity and undermines the collective sense of rootlessness‚ displacement and wandering that characterize the socio-historical condition common to Africans in the Diaspora.” Home ownership is a “collective space defined

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    Corruption in Jamaica

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    figures ruined‚ and reputations of well-respected organizations and business firms badly tarnished in consequence of corruption. According to an article published April 26‚ 2009‚ Jamaica was ranked the most corrupt country in the Western Hemisphere measuring the highest on index countries perceived to be most corrupt. Jamaica outpaced its regional counterparts on the perceived corruption index with a mean score of 85.6 points out of 100‚ three points above the 2006 survey‚ which suggests a growing public

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    Maroons of Jamaica

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    Introduction Jamaican Maroons date back to the English conquest of Jamaica in 1655. At that time‚ the retreating Spanish freed their African slaves. They armed them and encouraged them to fight a guerrilla war against the new British Colonies. The released and runaway slaves‚ aided by Jamaica’s mountainous terrain; evaded capture‚ formed fighting bands and eventually split into two powerful communities. It is from these remote communities that the Jamaican Maroons raided British settlements and

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    Homosexuality in Jamaica

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    Gays (J-FLAG)‚ Inter American Court of Human Rights (ITACHR) and many more organizations in the fight for equality and human rights. Many Citizens of Jamaica have already voiced their opinions on the subject matter pertaining to discrimination against sexual orientation but observation of the situation in the community of Flanker in Montego Bay‚ Jamaica is the main factor that influenced the conduct of this study. Problem Statement Gays and lesbians have been over the history of time and

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    Neoliberalism In Jamaica

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    protections that were set up by companies such as Chiquita and Dole whose laborers could not unionize and were cheaper/unfair worker conditions (Malek 2/22). The WTO decides to take action and cut into foreign investment of the banana industry in Jamaica because there would no longer be a market to sell via foreign investors 85 Smallman and Brown “Banana wars US could put tariffs on trades from the UK through tariffs putting competition damage to European businesses getting rid of the private business

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    Globalisation on Jamaica

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    1. Causes of globalization affecting Jamaica: * For Jamaica‚ the main reason for globalization was darker. The energy Crisis of the early 1970s forced the Jamaican Government to take out loans from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to cover the rising expenses of fuel based imports. However they weren’t interested in cooperating with Jamaica in developing native infrastructure and resources‚ so they enforced a short-term repayment of the debt‚ budget cuts in areas supporting

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    Moving To Jamaica

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    I believe in change. I have been through a lot of changes throughout my life. Moving from my home Jamaica to a country I’ve never even heard of (Cayman Islands). But that’s not all. You would think that after that it would stop‚ but it didn’t. Four years later‚ I was on the move again and at this point moving again isn’t out of the picture. It started when I was 11‚ my parents sat me down and told me that an opportunity came up so we’re moving to the Cayman Islands. My first thought was why? We weren’t

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