Essays on Caribbean

Introduction Development is the guideline under which people’s freedom is expanded. Therefore it is with the aim of eradication of poverty hence restoring good and suitable prosperity for the people. When Economic development has been improved in a country, there is much assurance of quality...

Introduction Haiti is a country on the island of Hispaniola near the Caribbean Sea. Haiti has a rich cultural heritage that reflects on its traditional customs, particularly in art, music, food, and literature. It’s home to 10. 9 million natives and continues to produce glorify...

Introduction Haiti is a developing economy, and the GDP of Haiti was given at 9.66 billion USD in 2018 (Trading Economics, 2020). The country’s GDP has been boosted by the informal economy with majority of the companies investing in the formal economy. On the other...

Introduction Poverty is a state where an individual is unable to have human basic needs such as food, good housing, clothing, and healthcare. However, the term also applies to countries that do not produce enough resources to sustain their population; hunger is a condition where...

Introduction A little over 200 years ago, Haiti gained its independence from France, which turned out being one of the worst mistakes this country would ever make. Haiti’s economy would spend over a century repaying the French and not focusing on the development of their...

Introduction Haiti is a poor city; however, it’s better known for its frequent and destructive earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by the movement and tension between the tectonic plates. In this scenario, Haiti lays in between the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates, two major fault...

Life and Debt, a film by Stephanie Black shows the bad side of Jamaica that tourists and foreigners don’t get to see on their day to day life. The bad side being the economy and what it has done to the citizens of the country....

Everyone is going electronic! And this includes the Health Industry worldwide, and with the advent of health providers turning to more convenient, cost effective ways of storing and accessing patients medical information, it only makes sense that agencies would seek to make sure that this...

Tato Laviera was involved in the affirmation and transformation of the Puerto Rican identity in the United States. Tato was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Sanchez arrived in Lower East Side of New York at the age of 9. Before he migrated to the United...

Abstract The location of Puerto Rico makes it vulnerable to seismic activity due to the different sources that surround the Island. This is why the risk of a tsunami affecting the island increases as it did in 1918. The Puerto Rico Trench, located to the...

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and colonizer who completed four voyages a cross the Atlantic Ocean that opened the New World for conquest and permanent European colonization of the Americas. Columbus had embarked with intent to find and develop a westward route to the...

The Andrew Holness led administration was under extreme pressure after over 1300 murders were recorded in 2016, the highest for the last five years. Hence, a crime plan was initiated which focused on lowering criminality and using social intervention to curtail the issue, the Zone...

Having a job that pays well enough to support their basic needs is what most of my peers wish for in the country where I am from. I am from Jamaica, most people who just heard of my country always has the best things to...

Overview Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease caused by Vibrio Cholerae bacterium, transmitted via ingestion of contaminated water or food. Worldwide it is estimated to each year cause between 1, 3 to 4 million cases, and between 21000 to 143000 deaths. In 2016, 54% of...

It is no secret that Iran, Venezuela and Cuba have close relations to one another especially considering they are all basically dictatorships. Iran is under control of a Supreme Leader that is supposed to be a democracy and Venezuela and Cuba are actually dictatorships. But...

Tony Montana escaped Cuba to achieve the American Dream. But his idea of the American Dream is vastly different from majority of other immigrants. The film has many instances of strain theory. Strain theory was brought about by Robert K. Merton back in the 1930’s....

“When I was Puerto Rican” by Esmeralda Santiago is an autobiography that shows how Negi goes through many changes based on the challenges she endures by moving to new areas where society is different. Whether Negi was living in the Santurce, Macun, or Brooklyn, Santiago...

Beginning with the revolution of 1959 and continuing through the “special period” of economic crisis in the 1990s, various social and geo-political forces resulted in policy reforms that substantially impacted both the production and distribution of food in Cuba. These changes were driven first by...

I’m not a pioneer in my family when it comes to the medical field. My Grandfather is an established physician in Puerto Rico with experience in a district hospital. I have never seen someone so unyielding in their mission to make the world a better...