Many settlers were attracted to the rich resources of Haiti, which developed into France's richest possession in the New World. With neighbouring Jamaica, Haiti was the world's largest producer of sugar, which contributed substantially to the wealth of Western Europe.Called the "Sugar Island" ...
My experience in Jamaica leads me to believe that the yo-yo reaction of the Zee dollar may be orchestrated by outside forces. Back to the main argument. What if the government changed hands? There is another reason for stalwart judges, senior civil servants, senior police officers and others...
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Explanations seem obvious: This country is very poor, this one is run by tyrants, and that one has a lot of wars. But the stats reveal phenomena that can’t be explained by intuition. Why, for example, is the Dominican Republic’s number so absurdly high while its neighbor, Jamaica,...
to thank the Laureus World Sports Academy – the former champions who voted for me. I wanted to tell my story: I was 13 years old when the first Laureus World Sports Awards took place. I was growing up in Kingston, Jamaica. We were poor and sport was my way out of those ...
The Tropical Metabolism Research Unit the University of the West Indies Jamaica, 1956–2006: The House that John Built. Randle: Kingston, ON, Canada. pp 25–60. Jirtle RL, Skinner MK (2007). Environmental epigenomics and disease susceptibility. Nat Rev Genet 8: 253–262. Johannes F, ...
But there is pain in having known famous women. Cokie Boggs Roberts and I were together in the Wellesley Widows, an a capella singing group, for three years. I adored her. We shared intimacies. She even stayed at my home in Greenwich after the Widows took a spring trip to Jamaica. Bu...
Only Jamaica with their sprints and jumps strength and Kenya with their distance prowess also outscore Britain who had almost twice as many points as the next best European nation Spain for whom 32 of their points came from their walks golds. ...
In the 2004 report France was ranked at 44th and there was some surprise and disappointment in France at this relatively low ranking; behind countries such as Jamaica and Botswana. French commentators and institutions severely criticized the 2004 report for what was alleged to be a faulty understa...
An important contributor to the differences between individuals derives from their plasticity. Such plasticity is widespread in organisms from the simple to the most complex. Adaptability plasticity enables the organism to cope with a novel challenge not