scholarly journals Seeking Refuge in Hostility: The Caribbean ‘British Isle of Freedom’ and the Right to Remove Fugitive Convicts

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-167
Author(s):  
Emily Whewell
Keyword(s):  
British Isle ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals National research for health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: moving towards the right direction?

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Becerra-Posada ◽  
Miryam Minayo ◽  
Cristiane Quental ◽  
Sylvia de Haan
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Right

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia L. Bagneris
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
British Art ◽  
Palm Trees ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Right

July 2007, Yale Center for British Art – reflections on Agostino Brunias’s A Planter and his Wife (fig. 1) … The painting is relatively small – about 12 x 10 inches – and a wonderfully exquisite little gem, its bright gold frame setting off the work of a talented colourist. Pristine whites and vivid pale blues are punctuated with punches of coral red; deep greens and rich ochres define the landscape. In the background are all the hallmarks of an idyllic island day; under a perfect canopy of blue sky and fluffy white clouds, a pair of palm trees rise in the right margin of the picture, nestled against the calm, crystal waters of the Caribbean Sea. However, in the midst of this quintessential tropical splendour, two figures in the foreground, a man and a woman, command the viewer’s immediate attention. Although he is dressed to beat the heat, the man manages to cut an impressive figure in long white trousers, white shirt, and white waistcoat – all immaculately spotless. He accessorises the outfit with black cravat, black shoes with silver buckles, and a long mustard-coloured dress coat with shiny gold buttons, completing the ensemble with a black ‘planter’s hat’. Surely his elegant dress demonstrates his wealth and status, but not so much as his pose, for the artist has frozen him in a perpetual state of showing off; his outstretched arm gestures towards the splendid natural beauty all around him as he turns his face to the lady at his side in a move that silently proclaims his ownership of all that surrounds them....

From Christian to Jew

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Laura Arnold Leibman
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
South American ◽  
Crucial Step ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
American Colony ◽  
The Right

The next crucial step in the siblings’ journey to gain the right to live and pray as they pleased came in 1811 when they moved to Suriname, a South American colony on the Caribbean Sea. In Suriname, Sarah and Isaac found their home among the largest multiracial Jewish community in the Americas and formally converted to Judaism. This community provided a spiritual home for Sarah and Isaac, but it also marked them as second-class citizens. Since their father, Abraham, had not married their mother, Surinamese law considered Sarah and Isaac people of color. This racial designation followed them into the synagogue, where they would sit separately from whites and couldn’t partake in synagogue honors. This chapter places the siblings’ experiences alongside that of other multiracial Jews who lived in Paramaribo at that time, highlighting their battles against oppression.

scholarly journals Physa Marmorata Guilding, 1828 (Pulmonata: Physidae)

1986 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Lobato Paraense
Keyword(s):  
Shell Length ◽  
The Body ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Adjoining Area ◽  
Nidamental Gland ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Body Whorl ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ventral Wall ◽  
Egg Capsule

A description of Physa marmorata Guilding, 1828, based on material collected at its type-locality, the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, is presented. The shell is thin, horn-colored, surface very glossy, diaphanous. Spire acute, elevated; protoconch distinct, rounded-conical, reddish-brown; five not shouldered, broadly convex whorls with subobsolete spiral lines and thin growth lines. Aperture elongated, 1.4-2.0 times as long as the remaining shell length, narrow obovate-lunate; upper half acute-angled,lower half oval,narrowly rounded at the base, outer lip sharp, inner lip completely closing the umbilical region; a very distinct callus on the parietal wall; columellar lip with a low ridge gradually merging into the callus. ratios: shell width/shell length = 0.44 - 0.52 (mean 0.47); spire length /shell lenght = 0.33-0.41 (mean 0.39); aperture length/shell lenght = 0.59-0.67 (mean 0.62). Oral lappets laterally mucronate, foot spatulate with deeply pigmented acuminate tail. Mantle reflection with 6-10 short triangular dentations covering nearly half the right surface of the body whorl, and 4-6 covering a part of the ventral wall. Body surface with tiny dots of greenish-yellow pigment besides melanin. Renal tube tightly folded in toa zigzag course. Ovotestis diverticula acinous, laterally pressed against each other around a collecting canal. Ovispermiduct with well-developed seminal vesicle. oviduct highly convoluted, merging into a less convoluted nidamental gland which narrows to a funnel-shaped uterus and a short vagina. Spermathecal body oblong, more or less constricted in the middle and somewhat curved; spermathecal duct uniformly narrow, a little longer than be body. About 20 prostatic diverticula, simple, bifurcate or divided into a few short branches, distalmost ones assembled into a cluster. Penis long, nearly uniformly narrow; penial canal with lateral opening about the junction of its middle and lower thirds. Penial sheath with a bulbous terminal expasion the tip of which isinserted into the caudal end of the prepuce. Prepuce shouldered, much wider than the narrow portion of the penial sheath. Penial sheath/prepuce ratio about 2.08 (1.45-2.75). The main extrinsic muscles of the penial complex are a retractor, with a branch attached to the bulb, and another to the caudal end of the penial sheath; and a protractor, with a branch attached to the shoulder of the prepuce and adjoining area of the penial sheath, and another to the caudal end of the penial sheath. Egg capsule C-shaped, with 10-30 elliptical eggs (snails 10mm long) measuring about 1.10 mm (0.90-1.32) through the long axis and surrounded by an inner and an outer lamellate membranes. Jaw a simple obtusely V-shaped plate. radula will be described separately.

scholarly journals Dystocia in a Captive Reared Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kegan Romelle Jones ◽  
Kavita Ranjeeta Lall ◽  
Gary Wayne Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Factors ◽  
Fat Reserves ◽  
Hind Limbs ◽  
Uterine Inertia ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Right ◽  
Insight Into

Dystocia is a complication that occurs at parturition either due to foetal or maternal factors. This condition has been well studies in domesticated species. However, there is very little information on dystocia in the agouti (Dasyprocta leporina). The agouti is utilized for its meat in South America and the Caribbean. More recently, farming of these animals intensively is being practiced in the Neo-tropics. This case report attempted to provide some insight into dystocia in the agouti which has been rarely reported in animals in captivity. A female agouti weighing approximately 3 kg (kg), which was in the last stage of pregnancy, was found dead in its cage. The vulva of the animal had the hind-limbs of the offspring protruding. Upon necropsy the animal had little fat reserves and had two foetuses in the right horn of the uterus. The feet of on offspring were dislocated and exposed at the level of the vulva. Each foetus weighed approximately 200 g. The foetuses were well formed with fur, teeth and eyes. The placenta was attached to each of the foetuses. The pathological findings suggested that dystocia resulted in secondary uterine inertia, which was the cause of death of the adult female agouti. To prevent the recurrence of this situation the gestation should be staged (timed) using ultrasonography. Animals which are in their third stage of gestation should be monitored using cameras or with personnel at the facility to assist agoutis which are having difficulties at parturition.

The Congress of Vienna and the Politics of Slavery

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Alan Forrest
Keyword(s):  
Slave Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
The North ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
Slave Ships ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
General Desire ◽  
The Right

The chapter begins with an account of public opinion in the Atlantic cities following Napoleon’s defeat in 1814, the growth of royalist support in Bordeaux and the general desire of the Atlantic ports for the return of peace and the renewal of former commercial ties. But with Britain and the United States having already abolished the slave trade, there was huge international pressure on France to follow suit. Britain claimed the right to board slave ships and police the trade routes to Africa and the Caribbean, and the future legality of slaving was thrown into doubt. After Napoleon’s defeat during the Hundred Days France’s negotiating position was weakened. Vienna would prove a turning-point for the slave trade in the North Atlantic.

scholarly journals Paleoecological and paleobiogeographical significance of the rudist Macgillavryia chubbii sp. n. in the Campanian of Oman

GeoArabia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-146
Author(s):  
Jean M. Philip
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Potential Candidate ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Left Valve ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

ABSTRACT Excellently preserved specimens of the large rudist Macgillavryia have been described for the first time from the Campanian Samhan Formation in the vicinity of Filim and Hayy on the eastern side of the Haushi-Huqf massif in Oman. A new species, M. chubbii, was named and found to be equivalent to other species of Macgillavryia from the Caribbean domain. The exceptionally well-preserved holotype with its articulated valves allowed the reconstruction of the functional morphology of the mantle. The indications are that the left valve of M. chubbii covered only a small part of the commissural area, leaving a large part of the mantle of the right valve directly exposed to sea water and sunlight. As a result, M. chubbii has been proposed as a potential candidate for an association with zooxanthellae. Macgillavryia is a typical epifaunal rudist that probably lived in very shallow, clear seas. The shell was not buried during its lifetime but was exposed to epibionts and bioeroders. The excellent exposures allowed the reconstruction of relationships between Macgillavryia and other biotic or abiotic components. They formed a densely packed association with spaces filled by a very coarse bioclastic material. The superpositioning of two or more layers with superstratal growth fabrics created individual rudist banks more than 1 m thick covering several hundred square meters. Paleobiogeographic reconstructions have connected M. chubbii in Arabia with Macgillavryia in the Caribbean by eastward dispersion through the Pacific region.

scholarly journals Fact Sheet: Mayaro Virus

EDIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence E Reeves ◽  
Lindsay Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Central America ◽  
General Public ◽  
Mosquito Control ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Mayaro Virus ◽  
The Right

Mayaro virus (MAYV) can be spread from mosquitoes to humans. The geographic distribution of Mayaro virus is expanding from South and Central America into the Caribbean Islands, which means that, under the right conditions, this virus could one day become important to Florida. This publication is intended to serve as a fact sheet communicating information about MAYV to researchers and stakeholders in mosquito control and public health professions and to the general public.

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