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  • Hot water
  • City and urban life; Interpersonal relations
  • A variety of scenes from city life: a vagrant arrested for loitering sentenced in court the next day; three mischievous boys playing on the beach; a man courting a somewhat reluctant nursemaid; an attempted blackmail that goes awry; a pregnant...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Reflections on the Rebellion in St. Thomas in the East for today, July 11, 2004.
  • Insurgency-Jamaica-History; Slave insurrections-Jamaica-History-18th century; Jamaica-History-Morant Bay rebellion, 1865-1866;Maroons-Jamaica; Heroes-Jamaica; Jamaica-History
  • The causes and structures of slave revolts in Jamaica are discussed in this article. It also looks into the role of Maroons in slave uprisings. It questions if we can have a non-violent Morant Bay Rebellion today, and says that in order to have...
  • Rupert Lewis Collection
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  • The stowaway
  • Sea stories
  • The stowaway assumed an air of nonchalance as he sat in the wayside restaurant listening to the other customers describing his daring escape from the waterfront police. Unaware of his presence in their midst, they talked about his courage while he...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • A Man can laugh
  • Boxing ; Love stories
  • Having just won the boxing match, Nick did not like listening to Spink, his manager, telling him that he would only be good for a few more fights because his legs were giving out. Nick’s uncertainty about the nature of the relationship between his...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Christmas Eve
  • Christmas stories; City and town life; Rural life; Interpersonal relations; loss
  • Christmas Eve is usually a time of food, laughter and good cheer, but for some like Connie, there is little cause to celebrate. In the country, she listens to her family’s chatter as they express their wishes for a better new year. Mass Jim talks...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Still life with Oleanders
  • Family relations; Death ; Childhood and youth
  • Thaddeus, a young boy, mourns the passing of his grandmother as he soon realizes that his life is about to change and those of his adult relatives too who must each work through their own problems brought on by the old lady’s death.
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Thunderhead
  • City and town life
  • The author provides short insights into the lives of different people in the city at a time of social turbulence: Joie and Sam looks forward to Christmas together but tragedy intervenes; a seventeen year old boy furtively tries to seduce a girl...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Ed is coming home
  • Marriage; Man-woman relationship
  • Joie keeps her husband fully informed about their neighbour who has a husband in New York and is left in Jamaica to cope with two small children. Joie feels sorry for her, but Sam less so as he notices the regular visits to their neighbour of a man...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Trinidad and Tobago - students being welcomed at a Civic Reception.
  • Student activities; College students - Travel - Trinidad and Tobago; Speical events - Trinidad and Tobago; Stewart, Margaret; Jessamy, Andre; Jackson, Faith; Pollard, Duke; Bowen, Carmen; Anthony, Emily; Hill, Sheila; Layne, Aidan; Taylor, Edward.
  • In Port-of-Spain, Trindidad, the undergraduates were given a civic reception at the town hall, and here they are listening attentively to the welcome address from the Mayor, Councillor Edward Taylor (not in picture). Included in the picture are:...
  • West Indian Journey of a 1961 undergraduate
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  • Trinidad and Tobago - Dr. F. W. Coke talks to the visiting undergraduates about cocoa
  • Student activities; College students - Travel - Trinidad and Tobago; Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad and Tobago); Coke, F. W.
  • While in Trinidad, the undergraduates visited the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA) campus. The ICTA was a forerunner to The University of the West Indies; established in 1921 in Trinidad and Tobago. It was incorporated into the...
  • West Indian Journey of a 1961 undergraduate

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