Welcome to UWISpace, The University of the West Indies Institutional Repository for Research and Scholarship

This archive was established by the UWI Libraries to support the dissemination of knowledge by providing open access to the digitally preserved intellectual output of the University. Here we aim to collect together in one place the research and scholarship of members of the UWI community. UWISpace provides a platform for the collection, organisation, access and preservation of scholarly information in digital formats.

Departments and individuals wishing to deposit their research material in the UWISpace archive can email the administrators, or phone (868) 662 2002, Exts. 84419, 82241, 82215 at The Alma Jordan Library, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

All items in the UWISpace repository are protected by original copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

Courtesy: The Caribbean Charts and Engravings Circa 1555-1818. The Alma Jordan Library. The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Recent Submissions

  • Item type:Item,
    Development Council Meeting
    (1997-05-14) Percival Patterson
    File includes several documents related to the Central Inlier Gold Project. It also contains an agenda for a meeting of the Development Council, official correspondence, minutes of the meeting of the Development Council and memoranda. The largest item is the "National Industrial Policy: Review and Assessment of Performance in the First year.
  • Item type:Item,
    Development Council Meeting
    (1997-11-12) Percival Patterson
    Documents related to the function of the Development Council's various projects including developments at Port Royal and Drax Hall Estate. It also contains documents from the National Investment Bank of Jamaica as well as an agenda and minutes from meetings of the Development Council
  • Item type:Item,
    Development Council Retreat
    (1997-09-12) Percival Patterson
    File consists mainly of economic reports from the Planning Institute of Jamaica. There are documents related to Telecommunications policy, the National Development Bank, National Water Commission, Development of the Productive sector and National Industrial policy, financial sector and Bauxite industry.
  • Item type:Item,
    Development Council Meeting
    (1997-03-26) Percival Patterson
    Various memoranda from the Permanent Secretary/ Cabinet Secretary, Vincent Lawrence and the Technical Secretariat Development Council. Includes documents from National Investment Bank of Jamaica and reports related to GPD Communications Jamaica Ltd., the Special Assistance Programme and Trade
  • Item type:Item,
    Tectonic inversion in the Caribbean-South American plate boundary: GPS geodesy, seismology, and tectonics of the Mw 6.7 22 April 1997 Tobago earthquake
    (American Geophysical Union) Weber, J.C; Geirsson, H; Latchman, J.L; Shaw, K; La Fermina, P; Wdowinski, S; Higgins, M; Churches, C; Norabuena, E
    In this study, we describe this earthquake and related foreshock and aftershock seismicity, derive coseismic offsets using GPS data, and model the fault plane and magnitude of slip for this earthquake.