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BULK RATE PERMIT NO. 17 CHARLOTTE AMALIE VIRGIN ISLANDS POSTAGE PAID COVICRIER The Public Library Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas, V.I. 00301 ‘° 3847 TED # COLLEGE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, CARIBBEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, RB ‘HOMAS N.1. 00801 VOLUME II, NUMBER 3 RTEMBER 1978 - So 19) Water Resources Research Center PEEBLES ATTENDS © Dr. Roger Peebles, director of CRI's Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) attended the WSIA CONFERENCE — . annual Water Supply Improvement Association Conference in Sarasota, Florida on July 17-19. The event attracted 150 scientists and researchers, as well as several Virgin Islanders, among them, George Suarez, Commissioner of Housing and Alda Monsanto, Director of the V.I. Housing Authority. WATER DESAL ie College of the Virgin Islands and the College of AGREEMENT REACHED 9 Science and Engineering at Fairleigh Dickinson ss University entered into an agreement to assist in funding the Desalting Technology Transfer Center at West Indies Labs on St. Croix. The funds are made possible through a grant from the WRRC and Office of Water Research and Technology. The Tech Transfer Center will serve to demonstrate alternate desalting technologies to local deci- sion makers and will provide students of desalination "hands-on" experi- ence with desalting equipment. A small reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Center has been in operation four months and will be joined soon by small-scale electrodialysis and distillation units. Virgin Islanders may isit the Center to keep abreast of and gather current information on alternate desalting technologies. FOURTH ST. CROIX The fourth of eleven test wells to be drilled on TEST WELL DRILLED” St. Croix was completed and test-pumped in August : at La Vallee as part of the ongoing Groundwater Appraisal Project undertaken in October 1976 by the WRRC. The project is ar Wea d for completion in January 1979. VIUV 4€e 2 wtonare = (a Social Research Center F ganarcan vanes 70 | A book of readings, PUBLIC SECTOR AND SMALL ECONOMIES: A VIEW FROM THE CARIBBEAN, will be published next year by the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. The work was co-edited by Dr. S.B. Jones-Hendrickson, coordinator of CRI's Social Research Center (SRC) and Professor Fuat Andic of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of readings in public finance to focus on the Carib- bean. In addition to Dr. Jones-Hendrickson's contributions, Dr. Jerome McElroy, senior research associate at the SRC, submitted an article entitled "An Analysis of Tax Effort in the U.S.V.I.--1960-77."" An exten- sion of that article, "Tax Elasticity in the U.S.V.I.--1960-77" has just been drafted by Dr. McElroy for inclusion in the book. "Fiscal Capacity and Performance in the Virgin Islands,"' a 29-page article authored by Dr. S.B. Jones-Hendrickson, was published in Volume 26, Number 4 of SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES. The primary concern of the study was to present an overview of the public finance perspective in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Emphasis was mainly on fiscal capacity and performance during the period 1940-1975. A "Meeting of Experts on the Institutional Problems of Participation in the Strategies of Integrated Rural Development" in Lima, Peru was attended by Dr. S.B. Jones-Hendrickson and 45 other participants. Spon- sored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ- ization (UNESCO), the conference was held on September 4-8. One of 15 experts invited to make presentations to the assemblage, Dr. Jones- Hendrickson discussed the Caribbean experience in integrated rural devel- opment. His background paper was entitled "Rural Developments: A Case Study of Frederiksted, St. Croix, V.I." The results of the UNESCO deliberations will form input to a meeting on the subjects of food and agriculture to be held in Rome, Italy in 1979. In the May 1978 JOURNAL OF THE COLLEGE OF THE - VIRGIN ISLANDS an article, "Excellence and Equality in the Caribbean Educational System," was published. Written by Dr. S.B. Jones-Hendrickson, it takes a his- torical, econometric and politico-economic approach. The author indi- cates that the thrust of total education in the Caribbean must be geared toward understanding the laws of motion of Caribbean societies and the norms, morés and aspirations of the people. In addition, their percep- tions of the endemic value of total education as a catalyst of occupa- tional mobility must be monitored. Dr. Jones-Hendrickson's article appears on pages 50-66 of the JOURNAL.