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17/12/2025

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17/12/2025

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17/12/2025

10/12/2025

On the 101st anniversary of his birth, we celebrate 📚Michael Manley: The Biography📚By: Godfrey Smith📚
Michael Manley: The Biography

Michael Manley has been the subject of many books, yet he remains an enigmatic figure to even his family. Nearly 30 years after his passing, Jamaicans and the world remain ambivalent in their judgement of the legacy of this controversial post-independence leader who challenged the history of a complex nation as he sought to build on the legacy of politically and culturally influential parents.

Godfrey Smith’s biography of Michael Norman Manley, takes advantage of many rich and previously classified sources as he searches for the elusive soul and spirit of his subject. While many will want to focus on the turbulent decade of the 1970s and the roles played by Henry Kissinger and US ambassador, Vincent deRoulet, in the demise of Democratic Socialism and Manley’s eventual downfall, it is the multi-faceted character and mercurial personality of Manley that will leave readers in awe. From stories of his earliest childhood days and his tempestuous years at Jamaica College, through his many loves, marriages and personal tragedies, Smith reveals aspects of Manley’s personality that have evoked contrasting emotions of endearment among many and fury among others, to this day.

08/12/2025

Mutabaruka: The Verbal Swordsman: Perspectives from the Cutting Edge and Steppin Razor 📚By: Mutabaruka, Sebastian Schwager, Werner Zips📚

In this book Mutabaruka teams up with two anthropologists to reflect and summarize some of the most important
perspectives aired weekly on his two live radio shows on Irie FM, Jamaica’s Reggae radio channel. Cutting Edge and
Steppin Razor are controversial by intention. These talk shows owe their impact to the uncompromised stance of
its anchorman, paraphrased by himself as his own (rhetorical) ‘art of war.’ Drawing on the role model famously
coined by Peter Tosh’s hit song ‘Stepping Razor,’ Muta emerged not only as an institution of ethical conscience and
social consciousness in Jamaica but continues to challenge global injustice, particularly for people of African origin.

06/12/2025

The Law and Constitution for Every Jamaican📚By David Batts 📚provides simple information on how the law works. The book commences with a definition of law and the legal systems of the world. It explains the Jamaican legal system – its genesis, how it operates – and how the judicial system functions. Ideal for the Civics, Social Studies, and Law student at any level, this work covers other institutions of governance. From the Jamaica Constabulary Force to the operations of the National Land Agency, the Transport Authority and the Island Traffic Authority; the Rent Board and Firearm Licensing Authority (to name a few), readers will benefit from details and explanations as well as examples showing the law in action.

05/12/2025

Sky Juice📚 is Natalie Corthésy’s 📚second collection of poems after her debut anthology Fried Green Plantains (2017). Several of the poems in the collection are critically acclaimed having been featured elsewhere. “The Watchman”, “Swansea”, “Siren” and “Ritual” have been published in The Caribbean Writer Volume 33, 2019. “The Helper Experiment”, “Where are you from?”, “The School Girl”, and “Free” have been published in The Caribbean Writer Volume 34, 2020. “Up” was published in the writing and visual art journal, We Are Goodgenough Magazine, 2020. “Plantation fringe” was contributed to a special commemorative edition of Interviewing the Caribbean honouring the work and life of Kamau Brathwaite, 2020.

04/12/2025

Talk about a timely publication📚Oil And Climate Change In Guyana’s Wet Neighborhood: Probing Promise And Potential Peril📚By Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith📚

Guyana resides in an oil-endowed neighbourhood, along with Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago as major oil and gas producers and Suriname rising in the petro production ranks. However, South America’s sole Anglophone republic is also located in a wet neighbourhood, where climate change has begun to impact society and can diminish some of the oil gains. This dual reality requires understanding the vicissitudes of the promise of oil and the potential peril of climate change. Oil and Climate Change in Guyana’s Wet Neighbourhood undertakes this task.
Griffith examines the dynamics of the country’s oil pursuits in the context of its political environment and provides an assessment of its physical and social geography and its environmental security vulnerability that has been accentuated by climate change factors. He traces the historical background and evolution of Venezuela’s claim to the Essequibo region, going to great lengths to explain the geoeconomic and geopolitical implications for the country’s petro power pursuits.