First book that specifically deals with criminal practice and procedure in the Caribbean

Written as a textbook but also a useful reference tool for criminal justice professionals

Author is an experienced academic and practitioner, with a wealth of professional experience in Criminal Practice.

Dana S. Seetahal SC was an attorney at law of over 30 years' experience. She was a private

practitioner who appeared for both the defence and the State. She was also a public prosecutor

for several years and a senior lecturer at the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad and Tobago

for 12 years. She held a Master of Science in Criminology from Florida State University and was

a Fulbright scholar. Ms Seetahal wrote widely and presented numerous papers on criminal

justice and related areas. She acted as a criminal justice consultant to governments across the

region and various international bodies. Ms Seetahal was for eight years an independent senator

in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. In January 2006 she was appointed Senior Counsel.

Tragically Dana Seetahal was murdered in May 2014 at Woodbrook, Trinidad. Her untimely

passing left relatives, friends and the legal fraternity in a state of shock at the callousness of her

assassination. In 2011, when I, Roger Ramgoolam, assumed the post of Course Director of

Criminal Practice and Procedure at the Hugh Wooding Law School, St Augustine, I quickly

discovered that this excellent textbook, which was the backbone of the course, would serve as a

valuable guide for both students and practitioners of criminal law. Subsequent to my appointment,

Ms Seetahal released a revised fourth edition to the text that kept abreast of the latest

developments in the law. I consider myself fortunate to have been asked by the publishers of the

previous editions to do the honour of working on a new fifth edition of this text. It is my hope that

the various updates I have inserted into the text will further enhance the quality of the text and

ensure its continued status as an indispensable reference for all persons in the legal fraternity.

Roger Ramgoolam is the course director for Criminal Practice and Procedure at Hugh Wooding Law School. He is an experienced practitioner and has served as state counsel for the Director of Public Prosecutions, San Fernando, as well as in the capacity of Magistrate for the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago.

This important new text is the product of several years of research of the family law of fifteen Commonwealth Caribbean jurisdictions. It is the first and only legal text that comprehensively covers all the main substantive areas of spousal family law, including marriage, divorce, financial support, property rights and domestic violence.

The rights of the statutory spouse in the jurisdictions of Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago are examined, thus addressing, on a jurisdictional basis, an important area of spousal family that is seldom covered in English family law texts. The book also covers the number and variations of divorce regimes applicable to the region  the matrimonial offence divorce model of Guyana and Montserrat, the English five fact model of Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Grenada, Anguilla, and St Vincent and the Grenadines, the hybrid model of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize and St Kitts and Nevis, and the no fault model of Jamaica and Barbados.

This book will prove an indispensable resource for law students and legal academics, as well as for family law practitioners across the English-speaking Caribbean. Other professionals, including sociologists and social workers, will also find the book useful and informative.

Now in its third edition, Commonwealth Caribbean Business Law continues to break away from the traditional English approach of treating business law primarily as the law of contract and agency.

Taking a panoramic view, it explores the foundation of various legal systems before examining areas of legal liability that affect business activities. These include areas such as contract law, tort law, criminal law, agency and internet law which present significant challenges confronting the business sector. The book primarily targets the development of business law principles in several Caribbean Commonwealth jurisdictions but, where appropriate, also embraces the jurisprudence of other Commonwealth nations, such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. It also explores the United States as a non-Commonwealth jurisdiction, given the increasing importance in the Caribbean of judicial pronouncements relating to internet law from this territory.

Using excerpts from key judgments, the book allows students, particularly those with a non-legal background, to understand key legal principles for business as presented by the judiciary and draws parallels between legal theory and business practice.

For undergraduate and graduate level courses that combines introductory statistics with data analysis or decision modeling.

A pragmatic approach to statistics, data analysis and decision modeling.

Statistics, Data Analysis & Decision Modeling focuses on the practical understanding of its topics, allowing readers to develop conceptual insight on fundamental techniques and theories. Evans' dedication to present material in a simple and straightforward fashion is ideal for student comprehension.

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.

In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community. The issues are varied and broad, from whether meaningful teaching can take place in a large classroom setting to confronting issues of self-esteem. One professor, for example, asked how black female professors can maintain positive authority in a classroom without being seen through the lens of negative racist, sexist stereotypes. One teacher asked how to handle tears in the classroom, while another wanted to know how to use humor as a tool for learning.

Addressing questions of race, gender, and class in this work, hooks discusses the complex balance that allows us to teach, value, and learn from works written by racist and sexist authors. Highlighting the importance of reading, she insists on the primacy of free speech, a democratic education of literacy. Throughout these essays, she celebrates the transformative power of critical thinking. This is provocative, powerful, and joyful intellectual work. It is a must read for anyone who is at all interested in education today.