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 Having problems getting pregnant? It’s your first pregnancy and you
wonder what now? You have had a baby, but it has been a while and you
are considering another pregnancy? You wish there were convenient-sized
books about pregnancy? You can’t find any books on pregnancy in Jamaica
written by a Jamaican?
The Maternal Glow provides a
comprehensive but concise pregnancy guide for women. It also provides
some helpful tips for the ‘expectant’ father. All this is provided in a
handy-sized, paperback that caters especially to the Jamaican woman. [...more]
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WRITING JAMAICAN THE JAMAICAN WAY |
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 Frederic Cassidy, a Jamaican linguist, developed a method of presenting the Jamaican language in writing, in 1961. The system is very easy to learn. Because Jamaican is a language in its own right and not just a form of English, a word which is pronounced the same way in these two languages, is often written differently. The sounds which the letters carry in the Cassidy system for Jamaican are different from those which they carry in English.
The system presented in this handbook, which we call ‘the Cassidy-JLU Writing System’ is one based on that developed by Frederic Cassidy with some modifications made by the Jamaican Language Unit. [...more] |
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 Paulette A. Ramsay and Anne-María Bankay have made a truly invaluable contribution by translating this novel – making it available to English-speaking audiences in the Caribbean and beyond. Chiriboga deserves to be read more widely.
An important Afro-Latin American novelist, she addresses difficult and even controversial issues within a framework that poignantly illuminates how the dynamics of race, class, gender and sexuality affect black women’s lives. [...more] |
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