Work with Seedling Sugar Canes in the British West Indies and British Guiana

1912 ◽  
Vol os-7 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-169
Author(s):  
F. Watts
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
British Guiana

Systems of Domination after Slavery: The Control of Land and Labor in the British West Indies after 1838

1981 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Nigel Bolland
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
Systems Of Domination

Four years after their “emancipation” in 1838, the former slaves of British Guiana protested against their conditions and their unfair treatment by the planters who sought to bind them to labor on the estates. When the planters introduced certain rules and regulations, which were intended to regulate the quality and quantity of work, and to reduce labor costs by lowering wages and abolishing customary allowances of free medical attention, housing, and provision grounds, the workers complained to the stipendiary magistrates and stopped work.

7 The British West Indies

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parkinson Charles
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Political Uncertainty ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Lock In

During independence negotiations in British Guiana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, the debate about bills of rights did not focus on the merits of bills of rights in protecting the rights of individuals but on their capacity to entrench in the constitution the basic democratic features of the Westminster system of government. There was great apprehension about independence from groups that had different views from the party likely to be in government during the transfer of power. One approach taken by such groups was to try to lock in the constitutional status quo and therefore minimize the political uncertainty after independence. The bill of rights was an important component of this entrenchment package. This reflected a major shift in thinking about the use of a bill of rights that did not occur to the same extent in either Asia or Africa.

The Handbook of the British West Indies, British Guiana and British Honduras, 1929-30

1930 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
A. W. S. ◽  
Algernon Aspinall
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
British Honduras
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