Miss Lou: Mother of Jamaican Culture By Kevin O’Brien Chang Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett is undisputedly the most universally loved personality this nation has ever produced or likely will ever produce, engendering unabashed feelings of pride and affection in Jamaicans of all ages, colours, classes and creeds. For more than 50 years, she tirelessly championed Jamaican folk customs...
The Caribbean Examinations Council wishes to advise the public that syllabuses for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) are scheduled to hit the shelves of bookstore throughout the region in early October. Under a new arrangement with Caribbean publishing house, Ian Randle Publishers, the syllabuses will be published...
One of Ian Randle Publishers’ newest releases Risky Business: Perspectives on Corporate Misconduct is set to be launched at the Norman Manley Law School on October 1, 2010. About the Book The international financial crisis which began in August 2007 brought into sharp focus the regulation of the financial services industry. However, even before then, the quest to...
A and AN mean the same thing. A is used before words beginning with a consonant (any letter except a, e, i, o, or u) and AN is used before words beginning with a vowel: a, e, i, o, or u; or in front of a silent h. So basically, if a word has a...
We’re often asked where we get our Bar Codes or how we get them done. We actually generate them ourselves. Here are the...
We’re so excited about two ‘out of the box’ projects that are slated for publication later this year. Jamaica Fi Real by Kevin O’Brien Chang is a full colour coffee table book on Jamaican music, history, culture, sports, religion, food, art and places of interest. It’s not a travel guide by any means, and in...
Didacus Jules (left), Registrar at the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) accepting new past paper books from Ian Randle, Chairman of Ian Randle Publishers on Thursday April 8, 2010 at CXC Headquarters in Barbados. CXC has granted Ian Randle Publishers exclusive rights to publish syllabuses and past examination papers for all CAPE and CSEC subjects. IRP also...
In 2008 we published Daddy Sharpe: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Samuel Sharpe, A West Indian Slave Written by Himself, 1832 by Fred Kennedy. The Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent’s Park College, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Jamaica Baptist Union, and BMS World Mission will host an international...
Congratulations to Professor Verene A. Shepherd who has been appointed to the Working Group of Experts on People of African descent. The working group was established by the (United Nations) Commission on Human Rights to address human issues affecting people of African descent. Professor Shepherd is Professor of Social History at the University of the West...
The Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Insitute (HLSTUEI), Open Campus, the University of the West Indies (UWI), in collaboration with the Mona Campus, UWI, are working together to organise a symposium in honour of the late Professor Emeritus, Professor Rex Nettleford. The symposium will be held from April 7‐9, 2010 at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge...