Paul Andrew Bourne Media commentators and party advocates often claim that the Jamaican electoral landscape is in the process of changing. Is there any truth to this, or are such claims just idle speculation, self-serving propaganda? It has also been suggested that 'class', 'generation' and 'gender' divisions are emerging within the Jamaican electorate, that could make a difference on election day. Does one's social class, or one's age, or one's gender have any impact on how one votes, ...

Paul Andrew Bourne Media commentators and party advocates often claim that the Jamaican electoral landscape is in the process of changing. Is there any truth to this, or are such claims just idle speculation, self-serving propaganda? It has also been suggested that 'class', 'generation' and 'gender' divisions are emerging within the Jamaican electorate, that could make a difference on election day. Does one's social class, or one's age, or one's gender have any impact on how one votes, ...

Paul Andrew Bourne ABSTRACT The historical contributions, significance and potency of a particular sect of people within our space appear to lack impetus, whenever we begin to examine, analyze, and/or delve into the contributions of the same people to various arenas of world history. It seems that a black force covers the inputs of Blacks in our annals. The issues of racism, colonialism, separatism and apartheid become black, belittling, intense and even opaque during any disc...

By Paul Andrew Bourne Connell, Patricia, McKevitt, Christopher, and Nicola Low. 2001. “Sexually transmitted infections among Black young people in south-east London: results of a rapid ethnographic assessment.” Culture, Health and Sexuality 3: 311-27. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOHost (accessed February 9, 2007) Social marketing continues to be used by health professionals as a technique for addressing unacceptable sexual behaviour, of certain groups. The monograph cites that pr...

By Douglas Clarke, Paul Bourne and Lauren March Summary of Study - This is an ethnographic study on marginalized groups with emphasis on Puerto Ricans who experience socio-economic and political exclusion in El Barrio, New York City. The researcher sought to highlight the macro-structural and ideological forces that perpetuate inner city lived culture. From all indicators, he used informal consent to gather his data and participatory observation along with content analysis. In concludi...

By Paul Andrew Bourne emes and Perspectives, 6th. London: Harper Collins Publishers.

Paul Andrew Bourne In contemporary as well as in traditional societies, economic growth continues to be a topical issue. Macroeconomists and developmental economists (for example Hanson 1986; Todaro 2000) have further sought to distinguish between development and economic growth. The latter is oftentimes expressed with plethora of mathematical notations, whereas the former requires the latter. To some scholars, growth is product of the expansion of an economy other a previous period ...

The Aged Old Discourse On Economic growth and Economic Development Paul Andrew Bourne In contemporary as well as in traditional societies, economic growth continues to be a topical issue. Macroeconomists and developmental economists (for example Hanson 1986; Todaro 2000) have further sought to distinguish between development and economic growth. The latter is oftentimes expressed with plethora of mathematical notations, whereas the former requires the latter. To some scholars, ...

Within the Speech By Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 By Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 I see emptiness in their jargons I see corruption in their intent What is uttered is not meant in their speech its not words, it’s a craft – a toy engineered for fools it’s one that ostracized, but divide I see through the speech – for within the speech it’s emptiness crown master they label a speech, they label a tale, they label the Bible, they label poverty but they label no...

Within the Speech By Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 I see emptiness in their jargons I see corruption in their intent What is uttered is not meant in their speech its not words, it�s a craft � a toy engineered for fools it�s one that ostracized, but divide I see through the speech � for within the speech it�s emptiness crown master they label a speech, they label a tale, they label the Bible, they label poverty but they label not its solution but they say �...

By Paul A. Bourne Life a freshly cut rose a prize just won a delicacy of exotic foods a vision in a dream a potential lately discovered nature in its purest form. Life an abstract art a treacherous concept a vague cue a blank slate an open artery an enclosed desire. Life a philosophy.

Language: Cultural and Plural symbolisms in a society Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 Department of Sociology The University of the West Indies, Mona Kingston, Jamaica: West Indies ABSTRACT From a religious perspective, the evolution of man is embodied in a natural construction of a God whose function it is to fashion all the physical entities. This process ceases with the explanation of the Supreme Being, a spirit, unfolding his/her ...

By Paul A. Bourne, 2006 Like a seed I began in the open firmaments of the heavens battered by the very elements of nature to make me strong in a milieu that oppresses, dictates, and abuses but I’ll rise – like a flower, I bloomed with light’s rays like a flower, I was groomed by years like a flower, I unfolded with grace like a flower, I am the living years but watch and see – I’ll be your treasure because of these years I see me with years - a cistern that absorbs t...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, December 25, 2006 What is life without a story, and what is a story’s essence without its moral as it pains the psyche to know that you’re alone on a trail of love’s trajectory – because someone seeks the selfish end to the tale so… I cried in pain’s anger and, I laughed in emotion’s whisper, I saw the end in the end and wept with a poor man’s wealth I saw the heavens opened to accept my pain– as I reach to hold the wind in my grasp but was I in...

By Paul Andrew Bourne, December 26, 2006 I stood in a daze, searching for something, anything – to which I knew not then, I felt the void, that emptiness crept upon me with a shake’s precision for prey for the purpose was undefined but the message was clear I wanted something, except nothing I was there, looking, for … but that place, I knew it not I could feel that sense of closeness but I saw it not – I wanted so desperately to hold it, what? the make of my sta...