Global Reggae is a treasure and a testament to a genre of music that was birthed in the nation Jamaica and has impacted the world at large. It is a collection of fourteen plenary lectures delivered at a conference called “Global Reggae” held at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Jamaica.

“One should never judge a book by its cover,” is an adage that I believe is appropriate for this book, Six Jamaican Educators, written by the illustrious author and renowned qualitative researcher, Professor Hyacinth Evans formerly of the Institute of Education, the University of the West Indies, Mona.

The World is a High Hill: Stories about Jamaican Women, penned by the reputable author Erna Brodber (a Jamaican sociologist, novelist and former lecturer of the University of the West Indies' Mona Campus and other universities overseas), is an intriguing collection of fictional short stories depicting the multiple lifestyles of twelve distinct females straddling the social and economic gamut of Jamaican society. These women grapple with the gender, racial and social barriers that they encounter in their quest for survival, upward mobility, and success.

One of the key elements to meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, is education and training. Technical vocational education and training (TVET), being pivotal and noted as a transforming function for economic growth in many countries, has gained much focus, while concomitantly perceived by others as a second-choice opportunity. Senior Lecturer and technical expert in this field for over 35 years, Professor Halden Morris, along with local contributors, makes this point in the book, Issues in Career, Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Lessons for the Caribbean.

This publication presents a proposal for academic writing instruction at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, and, by extension, in Creole-speaking language communities. It advocates the adoption of an enlightened policy promoting writing instruction in the disciplines.

This book’s strength lies in part in the fact that two genres are studied from different geographical areas and in three different linguistic forms — English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The structural design of being divided into four solid chapters which work together to present a comprehensive study of the theme is also a very useful one. This book is a good study of the representation of African diasporic religions in the creative works of several woman writers.

Re-imagining Education is a “must read”; a most welcome addition to the educational literature. It documents issues associated with the context and process of education and creates an awareness of the need for us to “take stock” of what is and reimagine what can and should be... The several chapters address different themes, from philosophical /ideological perspectives and globalisation to policy, sustainable development and inclusiveness, teacher education, Information and Communication Technology, gender and school violence.

The Caribbean tertiary landscape must inject the sine qua non of quality assurance in its daily operations to be in sync with world trends. This single statement largely constitutes the poto mitan of Anna Kasafi Perkins’ anthology Quality in Higher Education in the Caribbean. Her florilegium investigates a host of pioneering work on improving quality in the service of education.

The simple title of the book, What do Jamaican children speak? A language resource, belies the complexity of what the author, Michele Kennedy, successfully does in describing the language that many Jamaican children bring to the classroom given our variable language situation. This variability exists because two codes, Jamaican English (JE) and the English-lexified Jamaican Creole (JC) coexist, and the distinctions between them are often blurred in the minds of its speakers.