81. SBMJ hop to compare differences in health care and culture. the Atlantic Ocean and the caribbean Sea, the mogul Sir Richard Branson s Necker Island­to Puerto Rico. http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0902/life/330.html

The Caribbean Islands Planning your elective - the Caribbean John Simpson: man with a conscience The education of a lifetime ... Write a response to this article The Caribbean islands Leonard Yuen gives a diary account of his tour of the Caribbean and takes a look at the different ophthalmic screening programmes The Caribbean islands are often seen as a homogeneous tropical destination, but in reality each island has its own distinctive "personality." Their reputation for warm weather, spectacular scenery, and friendliness have made them a target for holiday makers, and now they are becoming increasingly popular as an elective destination for students wanting to escape the winter months. Common health problems on the islands are diabetes and hypertension. Diabetic eye disease comes in many forms, including diabetic retinopathy and cataracts, which accounts for 50% of blindness (an estimated 17 million people) worldwide. Many complications can be detected early and treated, so screening programmes for diabetic eye disease are essential. With this in mind and, after a great deal of time and planning, I arranged to island hop to compare differences in health care and culture. Visiting 13 different islands gave me insight into the impact of politics and the importance of funding and education to establish effective screening and a good healthcare system. It was intriguing to see vast differences among the islands in spite of their close proximity.

82. Caribbean Islands Regional Overview THE COMMONWEALTH caribbean GEOGRAPHIC SETTING HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SETTING The Pre Societies The Windward islands and Barbados The http://countrystudies.us/caribbean-islands/

Caribbean Islands Acknowledgments Preface Regional Overview THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN ... Country Studies Index

83. Puerto Rico's Culture: Music of both Spain and the Spanishspeaking caribbean. been sponsored by the Institute of Puerto Rican culture. to many, most enjoyable- of the island s folk music http://welcome.topuertorico.org/culture/music.shtml

One of Puerto Rico's notable exports is its music, which is probably the predominant Caribbean music heard in the United States. , or , a notched hollowed-out gourd, which was adapted from pre-Columbian days. The musical traditions of the Spanish and Africans can also be heard in Puerto Rico's music. At least four different instruments were adapted from the six-string Spanish classical guitar: the requinto , the bordonua , the cuatro , and the triple , each of which produces a unique tone and pitch. The most popular of these, and one for which greatest number of adaptions and compositions have been written, is the cuatro , a guitar-like instrument with 10 strings (arranged in five different pairs). The name (translated as "the fourth") is derived from the earlier instrument having four (or four pairs of) strings, but for aims of century 19, around year 1875, already it was custom to make it with five pairs of cords as we know it today. Usually carved from solid blocks of laurel wood and known for resonances and pitches different from those produced by its Spanish counterpart, this instruments graceful baroque body has been revered for decades as the national instrument of Puerto Rico. Also prevalent on the island are such percussion instruments as tambours (hollowed tree trunks covered with stretched-out animal skin)

84. St. Martin Island By Caribbean Way small territory shared by two cultures, two countries Martin island, sometimes called the caribbean s friendliest, if Martin island we recommend that you search http://st-martin.caribbeanway.com/general-info.asp

Toll Free: 877-953-7400 International: 514-393-3003 email: sales@caribbeanway.com HOME VILLA RENTALS VILLA SALES ... - RIVIERA MAYA St. Martin Island In the north of the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles chain lies St. Martin island, a small territory shared by two cultures, two countries, and thousands of tourists each year. St. Martin island is divided into two halves roughly through its middle; on the southern side is St. Maarten, a Dutch dependency renowned for its restaurants, while the French dependency of St. Martin occupies the north and offers beautiful beaches and abundant water sports. Most of St. Martin island's 80,000 residents are of African descent, giving St. Martin island a unique combination of European hospitality infused with Caribbean charm. Visit St. Martin island, sometimes called the Caribbean's friendliest, if you want to experience two vacations for the price of one. Currency on St. Martin Island: On the Dutch side of St. Martin island legal tender is the Netherland Antilles florin (NAf), while the Euro is used on the French side. The US dollar is generally accepted throughout St. Martin island as well, as are major credit cards. St. Martin Island Entry Requirements: US and Canadian travelers require a passport or birth certificate (with raised seal) plus a government issued ID card to enter St. Martin island, while citizens of other nations require a valid passport.

85. Caribbean Poetry -- Links About Barbados To enhance integration among caribbean peoples and some interesting sections about the island s culture, history, and recommend looking at the Island Info and http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG-snh/Caribbean/Barbados/Resources/links.htm

Caribbean Poetry: Barbados Poetry Places Culture Images ... Resources : Links Caribbean Student's Association At Southern Illinois University, members of the Caribbean Students' Association have created a website to promote themselves and their cultures. What I found most interesting (and what the link here points to) was their section about the islands' cultures. It provides other links to information about art, literature, music, and food in the Caribbean. Barbados Photo Gallery This site contains an assortment of information about the cultural and social aspects of life in Barbados. It contains information about daily Bajan news, which is useful for studying the modern aspects of the island. It also addresses the artists, music, and culture and contains an extensive photo gallery. Caribnet Caribnet is another good, non-tourist-oriented site. It contains some historical information, but the more useful feature seems to be its collection of links. It connects out to essential sites about Barbados's government, foreign affairs, etc. One link goes to an interactive map of the island. Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English George Landow's website (created by one of his students, David Lichtenstein) focuses on the Caribbean as a whole, both culturally, economically, and literarily. He does have a well-developed section about Barbados' statistics, and another that examines how postcolonial literature affects both Bajan literature and Caribbean literature in general. He warns that the site is still under construction. I found the Themes page especially useful: it links to several articles on the Caribbean as a whole. It also contains an extensive bibliography about the study of Caribbean texts. The site focuses primarily on prose works.

86. History And Culture Of The Caribbean, Caribbean History, Caribbean Books Categories History and culture, caribbean Guides A Traveler s Guide to There are plenty of guides to caribbean resorts and to each of 20 island groups, plus a http://www.caribbeans.com/1books/bookshistory.htm

Our recommended reading about the history and culture of the Caribbean. Visit the rest of the Caribbean Information ... Caribbean News Visit our islands Antigua Bonaire British Virgin Islands ... Islands Caribbean Information Office Outside the U.S.call FAX Order by clicking on any title or book cover Categories: History A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to Present By Jan Rogozinski ISBN:0816038112 Reviews:(Amazon reader) (Amazon reader #2) An excellent history of the Caribbean. This is an objective and well-written book. Dr. Rogozinski has focused on the important events and forces which has shaped the Caribbean countries. The book has given me a greater understanding and appreciation of the region and has made my travels there more enjoyable." Categories: History/Culture Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, in English (Penguin Poets) by Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, in English (Penguin Poets) ISBN:0140585117 (no reviews) Categories: History and Culture, Caribbean Guides

87. Caribbean West Indies General Politics Dominicans, Haitians, the Struggle for Hispaniola The caribbean island of Hispaniola Republic on the complex relations between these two cultures and sheds http://20th-century-history-books.com/Caribbean_West_Indies_General_Politics.htm

Home Search High Volume Orders Links ... Yitzhak Rabin Additional Subjects Architecture Domestic House Black Sun The Samurai's Tale George Orwell ... Films of Audie Murphy Featured Books Most books on Cuba talk about the charm of her people, the delights of her women (for male authors, anyway) and the chaos of her economy. I visited Cuba in December of 2002 and can cheerfully report that Cuba is a highly seductive place, a place of great charm and beauty, and Cuban women are the sweetest in the world.In this book, we see a very different Cuba, Economic Cuba. And Economic Cuba is a disaster. Harvests are failing. Equipment is failing. Sugar cane is rotting in the fields. Touri... Written by Mark Falcoff Published by AEI Press (September 2003) ISBN 0844741752 Price $25.00 The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is home to historic, ongoing strife between two countries deeply divided by race, language, and history yet forced constantly into confrontation by their shared geography. In her first book, American journalist Michele Wucker reports from both Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the complex relations between these two cultures and sheds light on the sources of their struggles both in their island home and in the United States. This book is charged from the ... Written by Michele Wucker ISBN 0809097133 Price $15.00

88. TobagoWI - The Caribbean Vacation Paradise Tobago The Robinson Crusoe Island. Trinidad caribbean paradise holidays beaches tourism tourists. News, history, people, business, culture, travel information http://www.tobagowi.com/

TobagoWI.com - Your source for information on this island paradise. Located just off the coast of South America, Tobago Tobago's pace of life is leisurely. This island is a Caribbean pearl whose down-to-earth grace and beauty has not been tarnished by the effects of tourism or industry Tobago like its bigger sister Trinidad was once a part of the South American continent. Like this continent, it has an extensive range of flora and fauna and is the site of the Western Hemisphere's oldest protected nature reserve.. Take a look! The island of Tobago is a nature lover's dream. Tranquil days and soothing nights are separated only by magnificent sunsets. Site Search This is the vacation spot you've always dreamed of.

89. José Barreiro, A Note On Tainos: Whither Progress? methods than the modern populations of that same island. They could trade throughout the caribbean and had systems of upon the natural world, a culture such as http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/013.html

A Note on Tainos: Whither Progress? Northeast Indian Quarterly, pp. 66-77 Fall, 1990 Author's note: An appreciation is due John Mohawk, who contributed to an early version of this article. References in the body of the text refer to the Select Bibliography which follows this article. All ilIustrations except the photograph on page 76 are taken from Onelio Jorge Cardoso, Los Indocubanos. Havana: Gente Nueva, 1982. Taino culture was dominant throughout the Caribbean, a sea and island world that was in turn cradle of Taino civilization. In agriculture, seafaring and cosmology, Ciboney and Guanahatabey (western Cuba), Macorix and/or Ciguayo (Bohio) and even Carib (Lesser Antilles) all followed the material and much of the psycho-spiritual framework of the Taino. The original Caribbeans spoke Arawak. The people of the Arawak language family still comprise one of the more widespread American Indigenous cultures, with relatively large kinship nations in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins of South America. Throughout the Caribbean, usually in remote mountain ranges and coastal promontories, remnant groups and communities of Taino-Arawak and Carib descendants survive to the present. Aspects of the animistic and material culture of the Taino-Arawak have been adopted by the mestizo populations of the Caribbean and are interwoven into the Euro-African fabric of the islands' folk universe. The word Taino meant "men of the good," and from most indications the Tainos were good. Coupled to the lush and hospitable islands over millennium, and a half, the indigenous people of "La Taina" developed a culture where the human personality was gentle. Among the Taino at the time of contact, by all accounts, generosity and kindness were dominant values. Among the Taino peoples, as with most indigenous lifeways, the physical culture was geared toward a sustainable interaction with the natural surroundings. The Taino's culture has been designated as "primitive" by western scholarship, yet it prescribed a lifeway that strove to feed all the people, and a spirituality that respected, in ceremony most of their main animal and food sources, as well as the natural forces like climate, season and weather. The Taino lived respectfully in a bountiful place and so their nature was bountiful. (Jane 1930)

90. MuraldoDC -The Company As with many other caribbean dances, many variations exist to the particular area or island the particular while the particular European culture, which had the http://www.nukanweb.com/mdc/caribbean-quadrille.htm

The Christian Counter The Company The Caribbean Quadrille By Caroline Muraldo, BA (Hon) MA The African peoples who were brought to the islands as slaves, belonged to a wide variety of cultures, for example Ibo, Yoruba, Conga, Cromanti, and subcultures, derived mainly from west and central Africa. In a bid to keep control, the enslaved Africans were separated from the members of their families and tribes. Initially, Caribbean dance and music was used as a means of communication between peoples whose native tongues were as different from one another as their captors. By the end of the eighteenth century, African slavery had spread to every Caribbean island that could be captured and colonised by the Northern Europeans, who consisted of the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish. Following emancipation, during the second half of the century, the sugar growers had to search for labour from outside the Caribbean, in an attempt to maintain wages at a low level and to ensure a steady labour supply. An influx of labour was found in other countries including China, Madera, East India and Java. As the cultures of Africa and European contrast in so many ways and were the main influences on Caribbean culture, the creolisation process resulted in Caribbean culture existing on a continuum, the influence of each continent residing at opposite ends. At the centre dwell the parts of Caribbean culture, which can be attributed to nowhere else but the Caribbean.

91. Busse Library Web F49 1994b; Lewis, Gordon K. The Virgin islands a caribbean The Restless caribbean changing patterns / c1979 Slave cultures and the cultures of slavery / c1995 http://www.mtmercy.edu/lib/caribb.htm

Busse Library Home MMC Jenzabar Periodical Indexes Desktop Reference ... Selected MMC Webpages Webliography : Countries and Cultures: Caribbean Busse Library provides these webpages for students and faculty seeking information on the Caribbean islands. Websites reflect a small portion of available government and social resources. Busse Library titles are provided for research needs. Nations included in this region : Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, The British Virgin Islands, The Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, The Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, St. Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Barthelemy, Trinidad and Tobago, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Scroll down the desktop or move to the desired section: Government Resources Society and Culture Resources General Resources on Region Busse Library Resources ... Other Regions in the Series Government Resources Aruba Government Information Barbados Government Information Service Cayman Islands : Government Commonwealth of the Bahamas:Government ... Dominica: Government: NationMaster.com

92. Front Matter Of Lesson Plans For Prehistory Language arts, VI caribbean prehistory the task of meeting curriculum guidelines regarding the islands early inhabitants and cultural studies in http://www.friendsvinp.org/Programs/archeol/lesson/front.htm

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN CARIBBEAN PREHISTORY Supplementary Curriculum Materials for Virgin Islands Teachers Vol. 1: Elementary School Level AUTHORS This elementary school material was created by the following Virgin Islands teachers: Deborah S. Ferry - Julius E. Sprauve Elementary School Edna A. Figueroa - Evelyn M. Williams Elementary School Faith Dane George - Ricardo Richards Elementary School Shirlene E. S. Harvey - Alexander Henderson Elementary School Mable Hurtault - Peace Corps Elementary School Winifred Loving - Pearl B. Larsen Elementary School Cynthia A. Morris - Evelyn E. Marcelli Elementary School Bernadette Palton - Juanita Gardine Elementary School Sandra S. Price - Joseph Gomez Elementary School May Richardson - Michael J. Kirwan Elementary School In conjunction with Emily R. Lundberg, Ph.D., archaeologist and anthropological researcher of Caribbean prehistory. Produced by Island Resources Foundation 6296 Estate Nazareth No. 11, St. Thomas, VI 00802 Supported and distributed by the Virgin Islands Humanities Council Kongens Gade 5-6, Corbiere Complex, Charlotte Amalie, VI 00802

93. Caribbean Island Destinations: Puerto Rico caribbean for Visitors, information for tourists interested in the island of Vieques. Rico, including government, attractions, history, geography, and culture. http://gocaribbean.about.com/od/puertorico/

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Travel Caribbean for Visitors Most Popular Destinations Puerto Rico Home Essentials Travel Planners Deals and Packages ... Special Travelers - Resources zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Most Popular Destinations More Great Islands Virtual Caribbean Deals and Specials ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Stay Current Subscribe to the About Caribbean for Visitors newsletter. Search Caribbean for Visitors Puerto Rico Find great links to resorts, tour guides, car rentals, tourist information, watersports, nightlife, sightseeing and more for the island of Puerto Rico. Alphabetical Recent Up a category Puerto Rico's Paradores If you want something special in accommodations, try one of Puerto Rico's charming small hotels or inns, also known as paradores. Stay away from busy San Juan and immerse yourself in the culture of the Caribbean - Puerto Rico! Puerto Rican Getaways Try one of these special Puerto Rican hotels if you're looking for a unique getaway. Visit Vieques' Glowing Waters The tiny island of Vieques offers travelers a quiet respite from the busy tourism of larger islands.  While there's plenty to do, you can enjoy an unrushed holiday amidst the island's natural beauty and enjoy its most unique attraction, the bioluminescent bay.

94. Education World® - *Social Sciences : Area Studies : Caribbean : General Resour Krioyo Get marooned on Karin s Island on the Virtual Institute of caribbean Studies This website aims discourse about development, politics and culture of the http://db.education-world.com/perl/browse?cat_id=1739

95. English Department - Students' Resources & Archives: Caribbean Island Cultures N The network will also facilitate the development of the Encyclopedia of caribbean Island culture, that will be edited by Joan M. Fayer, Joan F. McMurray and http://humanidades.uprrp.edu/ingles/students/resources/carib-cultures.htm

Website designed by: Home Students Caribbean Island Cultures Network English Resource Center Richardson Seminar Room Literature Writing ... Other useful links Related links: Campus Information Graduate Students' Directory Graduate Students' Activities (PDF) Graduate Student Manual For Undergraduate Students For Graduate Students Photo: Shakespeare Mas' Player, Carriacou Carnival The network focuses on an exchange of research on both the large and small Anglophone Caribbean islands, primarily those which were or are colonies of Britain. In this network, culture is defined in its broadest sense and includes history, language, literature, folklore, festivals, popular dramatic performances, dance and music, games, professional theater, and cinema. The network will also facilitate the development of the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Island Culture, that will be edited by Joan M. Fayer Joan F. McMurray and Peter A. Roberts. In addition, it will sponsor workshops which will bring together cultural practitioners and academics for a roundtable discussions of culture in the Anglophone Caribbean. The network is partially funded by the Proyecto Atlantea UPR website UPR library UWI website Joan M. Fayer Ph.D.

96. Tiny Caribbean Island Confronts Huge Insurance Fraud not unknown in Antigua and across the caribbean, but the in centuries of slavery and a culture embedded in To get it, 12,000 of the island s 70,000 citizens http://www.caribvoice.org/Features/antigua.html

Tiny Caribbean Island Confronts Huge Insurance Fraud By Charles D. Sherman (Miami Herald) St. John's, April 2002: Standing before the most eminent legal minds in the Caribbean, Thomas Martin, a children's heart doctor, wept. Martin said he had wanted to send sick Antiguan children from this tiny Caribbean island to Miami hospitals for surgery needed to save their lives. His letters to the government on the children's behalf, he said, had been ignored, his personal visits to the Health Ministry turned aside. Last year, when one youngster in his care died, the parents blamed Martin. ''Excuse me,'' the doctor sobbed. "That was hard to take.'' At the urging of the public, three investigating judges have been charged with figuring out where $230 million or more in state health insurance money has gone, an enormous sum for Antigua. The results of the investigation will help form the basis for the prosecution of dozens of officials and others involved in defrauding the fund. Listening to Martin's account of the neglected children, the judges on a stage of the sprawling Antigua and Barbuda Exhibition and Cultural Center shifted uneasily in their high-backed chairs. From the auditorium, low moans came from 300 members of the public.

97. IPL General/Reference Collection: Caribbean http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/RR/static/rci20.00.00.html

the Internet Public Library Caribbean Resources Show Me Associations Serials in this category. No further Subcategories Resources in this category are: El Boricua http://www.elboricua.com/ Author: Ivonne Figueroa (elboricua@elboricua.com) Subjects: Social SciencesEthnicity, Culture, and RaceLatin American/Hispanic Keywords: Puerto Rico; Puerto Ricans; Taino; Boriquen; Borinquen InfoMartinique http://www.infomartinique.com/ "Detailed information on Martinique, including history,geography, culture, nature, industry, tourism plus maps, addresses,photos, recipes, music and more..." Author: Subjects: Keywords: Martinique; Lesser Antilles Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) http://lanic.utexas.edu/ An extensive collection of links to Latin American countries and subject areas of interest. Author: University of Texas at Austin (info@lanic.utexas.edu) Subjects: Keywords: Latin American Search the IPL Ready Reference Collection Search Terms: How: and or Output: long short We are interested in your comments and suggestions. If you want to give us feedback or suggest existing reference resources for us to add: Let us know!

98. Ian Randle Publishers - The Birth Of Caribbean Civilisation of the caribbean for the 21st Century speech (1993) from No Island is an Island (2000) • George Lamming, caribbean Labour, culture and Identity http://www.ianrandlepublishers.com/books/birth.htm

The Birth of Caribbean Civilisation A Century of Ideas about Culture and Identity, Nation and Society Compiled and Edited by O. Nigel Bolland About the Author O. Nigel Bolland The Politics of Labour in the British Caribbean (Ian Randle Publishers, 2001).

99. Cultural Survival Zambia 39.2. . 17.7. Asia caribbean etc. Indonesia(a) 10.6 Cayman islands. Malaysia 5.6 Dominican Republic(a) 30.5. Article copyright Cultural Survival, Inc. http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq_article.cfm?id=0000004E-000

100. Haiti Hotels, Resorts, Villas, Packages, Reviews And Photos - Caribbean Vacation offer the traveler seeking adventure, culture and history enjoyed at competing resorts throughout the caribbean. Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the http://haiti.wheretostay.com/

dqmcodebase = "http://haiti.wheretostay.com/lib/js/" Haiti Caribbean Citadelle la Ferriere San-Souci Palace Citadelle la Ferriere, Fort Alexandre and Fort Jacques Bassin Bleu waterfalls Labadie on Pointe Ste-Honore Beaches and Haitian artwork Haiti Partly Cloudy Humidity: 78% More Weather Oh, bitter-sweet Haiti! One must understand Haiti's turbulent past to appreciate its present strides in returning it to a position of prominence among the many Caribbean destinations. Originally controlled by the Spanish in the 1400's and taken over by the French in the late 1600's, Haiti then experienced an uprising by the African slaves in 1791, resulting in becoming the world's first black republic in the Western Hemisphere and an independent nation by 1804. The balance of the 19th century right up to Haiti's recent past was plagued with similar marked unrest however, relative peace prevails today and the present democratic rule shows renewed interest in reestablishing Haiti as a major player in Caribbean tourism. Although, it has yet to be seen, the country is showing encouraging signs of revitalization and does have a great deal to offer the traveler seeking adventure, culture and history. There are also several beachfront resorts on Haiti which have reopened, many of which offer amenities and activities enjoyed at competing resorts throughout the Caribbean.

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