The often-reported finding that religious persons are more prejudiced
towards homosexual persons than non-religious persons seems paradoxical
considering that most major religions purport equal opportunity and
tolerance for all people. Using a correlational design, researchers analysed
the self-reported attitudes of 204 male and female undergraduate students
aged 18 to 34 years at the University of the West Indies. Results confirmed
that even in a multi-religious environment, the highly religious were most

Overcrowding in hospitals is a major problem across the world. In the
Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago, however, this situation is
deplorable and inhumane, affecting predominantly the sick, the elderly and
the poor. Through systematic empirical analysis, the hypothesis that
overcrowding would be resolved by increasing the number of beds was
tested at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH). Using two decades
of hospital utilisation reports, it was found that even when medical

The objective of this study was to describe the range of strategies used by
Jamaican caregivers in managing their children’s behaviours. Prior to an
intervention, the primary caregivers of 138 aggressive children, 6- to -8
years old, from 4 primary schools in Kingston, were interviewed about the
strategies they used when their children misbehaved as well as when they
behaved acceptably. The caregivers reported using a variety of harsh and
inappropriate strategies when their children misbehaved; however, they

This essay examines the making of the postcolonial divide between the two
Kingstons with emphasis on the habits and dispositions of the city’s less
frequently studied Uptown elites. The paper briefly reviews Kingston’s
twentieth-century demographic and geographic expansion; calls attention
to a two-tiered system of institutions and services created to accompany
this expansion; and underscores patterns of diminished social contact and
interaction across the class divide consequent on the establishment of these

In Haiti, urbanization through “slumification” has generated an
overwhelming sense of crisis. In this article I trace the history of the urban
crisis and consider some examples of the making of slums in order to show
how the spatial form of the city has been shaped by a peculiar dialectic
between the state and statelessness. In Haiti, this dialectic takes shape in
Port-au-Prince, where people feel they ought to be well within the reach of
the state and yet feel excluded or left out. Ostensibly the center of political

We view indicators of success in health in the Caribbean with some

ambivalence. Macro-level indicators mask the inequities that threaten the

health of one of the most vulnerable groups in the society: the children. This

paper examines child health rights in five Caribbean countries: Barbados,

Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. These countries

present interesting similarities and contrasts. They vary in size,

population and economic performance, yet they have all recorded either

What explains the proliferation of Ponzi and similar financial schemes and

scams which overtook Jamaica in the last decade? The explanation offered

in this article points to change in the structural and institutional environment

that effectively created the conditions for scams to flourish. The short

story is one in which neoliberal globalising forces refashioned the country

in Ponzi’s image.

¿Qué explica la proliferación de esquemas financieros Ponzi u otros

de naturaleza similar; o las estafas que han permeado Jamaica en la

The flying fish is a cultural icon of the Caribbean island of Barbados. Yet

the fish itself has been growing scarcer in Barbadian waters, instead

moving south into the waters of neighbouring state Trinidad and Tobago.

Continuing disagreement over the rights and ownership of these waters led

to an arbitration case in 2006 that settled the issue of a maritime boundary

between the pair, but not the fishery issues. This case serves as an

interesting examination of the importance of fishery resources for states,

This paper seeks to establish whether compliance with the Basel Prudential

Regulations and Requirements (BPRR) by commercial banks in the

emerging economy of Trinidad & Tobago brings about any measurable

improvement in their performance. A model is constructed in which bank

performance is explained by macroeconomic variables and bank-specific

variables, in particular a variable representing the BPRR compliance

rating constructed from confidential information provided by the Central