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The Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) is a public policy think tank based at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. [1] The think tank's executive director is Dr. Damien King, Jamaican economist and lecturer in economics at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
In 1967, the Jamaica Journal was established as a quarterly journal, "to reflect the Institute's interest in the development and promotion of Jamaica's history, literature, science and arts". In 2002, the journal temporarily ceased publication; it was relaunched in 2004 under a new editor-in-chief , Kim Robinson-Walcott .
This saw the development of a duopoly which was composed of two labor organized parties: the People's National Party; led by Norman Manley in 1938, and the Jamaica Labour Party; led by Alexander Bustamante in 1943. In the mid-1940s, the JLP and Bustamante held the majority in Jamaica's limited-autonomy government under the authority of the ...
History of Jamaica book cover. Long's History of Jamaica, first published in 1774 in three volumes but again in the 1970s, [7] was his well-known work. This book gives a political, social, and economic account with a survey of the island, parish by parish from 1665 to 1774. [8]
Walt W. Braithwaite spearheaded the development of CAD/CAM systems at Boeing, enabling the digital design and manufacture of airplanes. He also contributed significantly to the development of the Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES). Braithwaite's common data format and translators from Boeing were used as the basis for developing the ...
The editorial office Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies (APPS) journal is based in the Development Policy Centre in Canberra. Devpol director Professor Stephen Howes is the Editor-in-Chief, and is supported by an Editorial Board. APPS is the flagship journal of the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Robert A. Hill (born October 1943) [1] is a Jamaican historian and academic who moved to the United States in the 1970s. [2] He is Professor Emeritus of History and Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Visiting Fellow at The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica.
Although amateur history returned to its pages, the new editor was David Buisseret, an English academic at UWI. He was followed by Carl Campbell, a Jamaican UWI academic. By the 1980s, the amateur contribution had declined yet again, but this "was to some extent balanced by history-writing for the society's Bulletin as well as for newspapers ...