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Third World Players Present
Thursday August 13th, 2015 with Lloyd Stanford
Dying to Better Themselves, part 1

Part 1 of 3 - Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal. In this series, you will hear you host Lloyd Stanford in telephone conversation with the internationally renowned, Jamaica-born Canadian writer about her 2014 book, a multi-disciplinary magnum opus of deep scholarship which places the engineering accomplishment in its historical context , with insights into a kaleidoscope of perspectives----from those of geopolitics, entrepreneurship, economic history, social anthropology, genealogy, British colonial administration, public administration, engineering management, race relations, the nascent movement to self-government in the British West Indies, to human resource management, including still current topics like ‘employment equity’ and more----buttressed by compelling statistics and arresting illustrations. The work is remarkable for the extensive and instructive attribution given to other authors and those who gave their testimonials despite the unfortunate loss to theft of some ‘verbatim’ records. The prose is always appropriate for what is being described and the prize-winning poet, short story writer and journalist is in splendid evidence there is every evidence throughout.
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