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In the Creative Writing section, students must choose to write either a narrative or a report, from a small choice subject material. The themes chosen usually reflect some aspect of Caribbean life, such as picking fruit or apologizing to a neighbor for a broken window. Creative writing is assessed in grades four and five.
In the 20th century the Caribbean was again important during World War II, in the decolonization wave in the post-war period, and in the tension between Communist Cuba and the United States (U.S.). Genocide, slavery, immigration and rivalry between world powers have given Caribbean history an impact disproportionate to the size of this small ...
Moya Pons, F. History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World (2007) Palmié, Stephan and Francisco Scarano, eds. The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples (U of Chicago Press, 2011) 660 pp; Ratekin, Mervyn. "The Early Sugar Industry in Española," Hispanic American Historical Review 34:2(1954):1-19.
The National Certificate of Secondary Education is an examination that is held at the last week of June for form 3 students in Trinidad and Tobago, for entry into the upper secondary system for students to choose subjects for the Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Education Exam offer by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).
This is a outline of topics related to the Caribbean region.Links to outlines and indexes of countries in the Caribbean region are also provided. The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ə n, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ə n /, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b i æ n /; [1] Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbes; Haitian Creole: Karayib; also Antillean Creole: Kawayib; Dutch: Caraïben; Papiamento: Karibe) is a region ...
The General History of the Caribbean is published in six volumes and seeks to provide an historical account of the area from the perspective of those who live there, highlighting the richness and diversity of these cultures. It seeks to integrate the historical experience of its peoples and societies from the earliest times to the present to ...
March 2 – American Citizenship Day, Puerto Rico [33]; March 15 – Joseph Chatoyer Day, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines [38] March 22 – Emancipation Day, Puerto Rico [33] ...
The Caribbean with West Indies Federation members in red. The short-lived federation was made up of British West Indies colonies from 1958–62.. Between 1958 and 1962, there was a short-lived federation between several English-speaking Caribbean countries, called the West Indies Federation, which consisted of all the island nations (except the Bahamas), and the territories (excluding Bermuda ...