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Need a copy of these titles? IRP will be at the 20th JSE Regional Investments and Capital Markets Conference from Januar...
20/01/2025

Need a copy of these titles? IRP will be at the 20th JSE Regional Investments and Capital Markets Conference from January 22-23, 2025, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. Stop by our booth to purchase your copy of:
- Footprints in the Sand
- From State to Markets
- From Slavery to Services
- The Confounding Island

From the Caribbean to the World; first stop in 2025: 📍Miramar, FloridaJoin Publisher and Founder of IRP, Mr. Ian Randle ...
16/01/2025

From the Caribbean to the World; first stop in 2025: 📍Miramar, Florida

Join Publisher and Founder of IRP, Mr. Ian Randle at the 2nd Annual Jamaica Brew Festival this Saturday, January 18, 2025, from 9am to 8pm at the Miramar Cultural Center. Come and hear Mr. Randle and other panelists as they discuss "The Caribbean Publishing Renaissance".

Register free of cost at: 💻 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jamaica-brew-festival-2025-tickets-11351624
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As 2025 brings new opportunities, we must reflect on the wins of the year before. IRP proudly presents the 16 recent add...
15/01/2025

As 2025 brings new opportunities, we must reflect on the wins of the year before. IRP proudly presents the 16 recent additions to our catalogue, our 2024 releases🎉

Visit our website 💻https://ianrandlepublishers.com to get a copy of your favourite 2024 title.

Wishing you and yours all the best for the season!
24/12/2024

Wishing you and yours all the best for the season!

In The Village of One: Essays on Trinbago’s Past, Places, People, journalist Richard Charan merges history, investigativ...
24/12/2024

In The Village of One: Essays on Trinbago’s Past, Places, People, journalist Richard Charan merges history, investigative journalism, and the art of storytelling in recrafting unusual news stories originally written and published in The Trinidad Express newspaper, into a fascinating book that will surprise and delight readers. Unlike a traditional history text, the stories that make up The Village of One are not chronological accounts of important dates, famous people, memorable events, or distant places, but as Sunity Maharaj highlights in her Foreword, ‘the ordinary and overlooked are magical apertures leading from Trinidad and Tobago’s present into its fascinating past … where history is familiar, alive and within easy reach.’

Charan invites you to just read for the story, for the storytelling, and for the language. And if Richard did his job well enough, you may discover what Trinbagonians lost.

Produced in full colour and copiously illustrated, this attractive and readable ‘true’ story collection is for Trinbagonians at home and abroad and also for all Caribbean people and for visitors to the land of the hummingbird.

Footprints in the Sand: The Jamaican Economic Policymaking Experience 2016–2024 by Nigel Clarke is a triumphant farewell...
23/12/2024

Footprints in the Sand: The Jamaican Economic Policymaking Experience 2016–2024 by Nigel Clarke is a triumphant farewell to his stewardship as Minister of Finance and the Public Service and Ambassador of Economic Affairs in the government of Jamaica for a combined eight and a half years.

Submitted for publication prior to taking up his new role as a Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Clarke takes the reader into the mind of a policymaker focussed on the pursuit of economic independence.

He advocates for credible policies that promote economic stability and create buffers against future shocks not as ends in themselves, but as the only means to sustainably create opportunity for all Jamaicans. The work covers a wide range of topics, from inflation, debt, and international capital markets to disaster-risk financing, public-private partnerships, and strong institution building.

Well known amongst colleagues as a zealous advocate for the constitutional right to freedoms of thought and expression, ...
20/12/2024

Well known amongst colleagues as a zealous advocate for the constitutional right to freedoms of thought and expression, David Batts extends his reach with this simplification of the Jamaican Constitution, law, and legal system for all Jamaicans to better understand it. The Law and Constitution for Every Jamaican provides simple information on how the law works. The book commences with a definition of law and the legal systems of the world. It explains the Jamaican legal system – its genesis, how it operates – and how the judicial system functions. Ideal for the Civics, Social Studies, and Law student at any level, this work covers other institutions of governance. From the Jamaica Constabulary Force to the operations of the National Land Agency, the Transport Authority and the Island Traffic Authority; the Rent Board and Firearm Licensing Authority (to name a few), readers will benefit from details and explanations as well as examples showing the law in action.

Cheddi Jagan (1918–1997) was the first major politician in the Anglophone Caribbean enraptured by Marxism-Leninism as es...
20/12/2024

Cheddi Jagan (1918–1997) was the first major politician in the Anglophone Caribbean enraptured by Marxism-Leninism as espoused by the Soviet Union − the beacon for the radical transformation of colonies like his country, British Guiana (Guyana). Moreover, he sought to persuade US President Kennedy, that although this was the essence of his post-colonial vision, it would not vitiate the fundamentals of liberal democracy.

Jagan’s political mission of fifty years was deeply rooted in his repulsion by ‘bitter sugar’ – an anti-sugar plantation, anti-Booker obsession refracted through Marxism/Leninism.

This study does not duplicate the well-documented subversion of Jagan by the US and Britain. Its principal aim is to explore the prompting and character of Jagan’s Marxism, particularly his conviction that the Soviet Union was paving the road to the communist utopia. In so doing, Seecharan does what no other researcher has done – dig deep into the vast writings of Jagan himself, publications of his People’s Progressive Party and its precursor, dating back to the late 1940s; in addition to the hitherto unexamined copious correspondence between Cheddi, his wife Janet and Billy Strachan (their foremost ideological mentor), a leading communist in the Communist Party of Great Britain. The work is enhanced by a series of interviews with several notable personalities who worked with or against them.

The brutal suppression of the uprising in Morant Bay in October 1865 under Governor Edward Eyre and the ensuing ‘reign o...
19/12/2024

The brutal suppression of the uprising in Morant Bay in October 1865 under Governor Edward Eyre and the ensuing ‘reign of terror’ is a watershed in Jamaican history. Paul Bogle and his allies, overwhelmed by colonial firepower and betrayed by Maroons in service to the British Crown, were mercilessly cut down by the elites (local and foreign) who justified their actions based on the continued belief in the subjugation and suppression of the black race by the white race, emancipation notwithstanding.

In Colour for Colour Skin for Skin, Clinton Hutton deconstructs the ideological, cultural, philosophical, economic, social and political rationale for the uprising by formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants and its violent suppression by the colonial forces, and articulates its significance in the development of a national black consciousness. This consciousness, and fight for freedom and justice, he argues, has strengthened over periods of Jamaica’s short history, evidenced by the emergence of Garveyism and Rastafari, the 1938 labour riots, and articulated in Jamaican popular music and more recently, the resurgence of Revival worship.

Using fascinating first-hand accounts of the uprising and its aftermath from the Report of the Royal Commission of 1866 and numerous newspaper reports among other sources, Hutton presents the ‘Morant Bay Rebellion’ squarely at the forefront of the continuing expression of a national complex in a post colonial society.

Ian Randle Publishers congratulates Franklin W. Knight on receiving the American Historical Association (AHA) Award for ...
18/12/2024

Ian Randle Publishers congratulates Franklin W. Knight on receiving the American Historical Association (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction which is awarded to senior historians in the US for lifetime achievement. Franklin Knight is Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins University where he was the Leonard and Helen Stulman Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies. Knight holds the distinction of being the first Black faculty member at Johns Hopkins to gain academic tenure.

Manchester born Franklin is an alumnus of Calabar High School and The University of the West Indies which recognised his achievements by conferring on him an honorary doctorate. He is also the recipient of a Gold Musgrave Medal (2013) for literature from the Institute of Jamaica.

Franklin Knight is a long-time advisor to Ian Randle Publishers.

Originally published in 1952, Six Great Jamaicans contains biographical sketches of influential Jamaicans who laid the f...
18/12/2024

Originally published in 1952, Six Great Jamaicans contains biographical sketches of influential Jamaicans who laid the foundation for modern Jamaica: Bishop Enos Nuttall, George William Gordon, Robert Love, Thomas Henry MacDermot, Edward Jordon, and Herbert George de Lisser.

The influence of these men continues to be felt in the areas of politics, religion, literature, journalism, and nationhood but sadly, their names and works have been hidden in obscure publications buried in research library collections.

This new edition, published by the National Library of Jamaica, contains a new introduction by Professor Matthew Smith which underscores the relevance of the enduring legacies of these six figures to present-day Jamaica and sets the foundation for an appreciation of the contributions of Jamaicans from all walks of life in the continuing struggle for national self-definition from the early days of Emancipation and the movement for self government, to the present day.

In this book, Mutabaruka teams up with two anthropologists to reflect and summarize some of the most important perspecti...
18/12/2024

In this book, Mutabaruka teams up with two anthropologists to reflect and summarize some of the most important perspectives aired weekly on his two live radio shows on Irie FM, Jamaica’s Reggae radio channel. Cutting Edge and Steppin Razor are controversial by intention. These talk shows owe their impact to the uncompromised stance of its anchorman, paraphrased by himself as his own (rhetorical) ‘art of war.’ Drawing on the role model famously coined by Peter Tosh’s hit song ‘Stepping Razor,’ Muta emerged not only as an institution of ethical conscience and social consciousness in Jamaica but also continues to challenge global injustice, particularly for people of African origin.

Happy Birthday to one of our newest authors René Simões, Brazilian football manager, born 71 years ago today in Rio de J...
17/12/2024

Happy Birthday to one of our newest authors René Simões, Brazilian football manager, born 71 years ago today in Rio de Janeiro. We also celebrate his soon to be released book chronicling his and Jamaica's historic journey to the 1998 World Cup, which at the time seemed an '...Impossible Dream.' Coming Soon!

Beeny Bud Stories: Discover this delightful series suitable for all ages.Miss Tiny: When Beenybud discovers Miss Tiny cr...
16/12/2024

Beeny Bud Stories: Discover this delightful series suitable for all ages.

Miss Tiny: When Beenybud discovers Miss Tiny crying she wonders what her problem is. Beenybud wants to help her, but Miss Tiny is such a cantankerous old woman that it seems an impossible task. Can Beenybud and her friends in the village do anything? And, is it even worth it.

Croaking Johnny and Dizzy Lizzy: Lizards are ugly! Or are they? Croaking Johnny didn’t have any friends, for after all, who would want to be friends with a lizard! Then he meets Dizzy Lizzy and discovers there’s a lot more to
life than sitting on a branch. Do lizards really dance? Share with Beenybud her very own favourite story and find out.

A Boy Named Neville: Neville doesn’t pay much attention to school and is always boasting about his ‘great life’. Neville is Beenybud’s friend, but she begins
to suspect that there are things about his ‘great life’ which she doesn’t know. As things happen to Neville, Beenybud discovers not only the truth about her friend but a truth about friendship.

Elsa Goveia is revered among Caribbean Historians both for her leading role in the introduction and teaching of Caribbea...
16/12/2024

Elsa Goveia is revered among Caribbean Historians both for her leading role in the introduction and teaching of Caribbean History as a specialised area of study and as a pioneer in West Indian Historiography. All leading historians of The University of the West Indies from the late 1950s to the end of the 1960s were influenced and, in some cases, mentored by Goveia. Over the years, both the Mona and Cave Hill campuses of The UWI have hosted annual lectures by leading historians in her memory, an honour not accorded to any other Caribbean historian to date.
This collection, published under the auspices of the Department of History and Philosophy of The UWI Cave Hill Campus, is a selection of lectures delivered in Goveia’s honour at Cave Hill – some by former colleagues like Woodville Marshall and a young Hilary Beckles and by others who all acknowledge her influence on their careers as historians and academics.

For the art lover, a beautiful book that showcases the wonderful artistic offerings of this Caribbean nation.Modern Hait...
12/12/2024

For the art lover, a beautiful book that showcases the wonderful artistic offerings of this Caribbean nation.

Modern Haitian art has for decades enthralled aficionados and general art lovers alike. In Arts and Religions of Haiti: How the Sun Illuminates Under Cover of Darkness, Haitian Scholar, LeGrace Benson presents a rich examination of the artists and arts of Haiti, and the complex history and religious practices of the Haitian people through the creative productions of its craftsmen, painters and sculptors.

From stationmaster’s daughter to wife of one of Jamaica’s most charismatic prime ministers, Beverley Manley’s life has b...
11/12/2024

From stationmaster’s daughter to wife of one of Jamaica’s most charismatic prime ministers, Beverley Manley’s life has been an odyssey.

As a young girl, starved of her mother’s love because she was darker than her siblings and forced to do housework while her sisters relaxed, Beverley was a modern-day Cinderella. Her adolescent years were painful, having to carry the burden of her self-loathing, the feeling of inferiority within her own family and the constant echo of her mother’s voice telling her she was good for nothing. However, Beverley defied her mother’s prophecy, and triumphed over her ‘ordinary’ beginnings first as a model in Jamaica and later becoming a household name on radio, television and the local stage. It was her path at the then Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) that would lead her directly to Michael Manley and ultimately to Jamaica House. Marriage to Michael also led to her political awakening; not content to being the docile wife, Beverley assumed an activist role in the governing People’s National Party (PNP), becoming embroiled in the ideological politics of the 1970s that would eventually lead to her estrangement from Michael and the painful self-assessment that came with his affairs and her own. The resulting termination of their marriage forced on her a self-imposed exile in the US where she took refuge from the ire of the Jamaican elite for daring to walk out on one of their own. But Beverley was to redeem herself and earn new respect as a broadcaster, commentator and incisive interviewer on the immensely popular and innovative Breakfast Club radio show.

Now older and much wiser, Beverley tells it like it is in this intriguing and revealing memoir. It is a rags to riches story – almost; a story of triumph and loss; of rising again and finally of redemption.

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