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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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  • PJ Book - A Jamaican Voice in Caribbean and World Politics
  • Books-Jamaica-Reviews; Patterson, P.J, (Percival James) 1935-; World politics; Jamaica-Politics and government; Jamaica-Foreign relations; Caribbean Area-Politics and government
  • A review of the book Jamaican voice in Caribbean and world politics: selected speeches 1992-2000 by Percival James Patterson; edited by Delano Franklyn. Statements about PJ. Patterson is also included.
  • Dudley Thompson Collection
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  • Lych Gate, Half Way Tree, Jamaica
  • Lych Gate (Jamaica) ; Half Way Tree (Jamaica)
  • A Lych gate at a church in Half Way Tree. Lych gates consist of a roofed porch-like structure over a gate, often built of wood. The gateway was really part of the church. It was where the clergy meet the corpse and the bier rests while part of the...
  • Cousin Hereward Postcard Collection
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  • Dudley J. Thompson - Book Launch
  • Books-Marketing; Authors, Jamaican; Thompson, Dudley J.
  • A draft overview of Dudley Thompson's book, which looks at significant contributors to black history. It also gives an insight into what motivated him to write this book.
  • Dudley Thompson Collection
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  • The little green man
  • Death; Curses
  • Noyland mused about the supposed curse attached to statue of the little green man carved in wood and dating from about the early Spanish period of Latin America history. At first everything seemed fine at the great house, but soon after the arrival...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Miracle on a sidewalk
  • Beggars; Integrity
  • A poor beggar desperate for food begs on the sidewalk before a church where the shadow of Christ cast a shadow on him. Like an answer to his prayer for food, someone dropped an envelope with a pound note near him. Considering it a miracle, he takes...
  • 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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  • The Talisman
  • Love; Man-woman relationship
  • He decided that the wonderful almost mystical bonding between them as lovers had to be broken, and to him fell the unpleasant task. He felt that he had given his all to the affair while to her it was not serious but something she could set aside...
  • 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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