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CONTENTS DOUBLE ISSUE Vol. 41, Nos. 2 and 3, August/ December 2016 Articles Page Can Millennials Afford Higher Education?...................................................1 Delroy Chevers Constructing a Housing Price Index for Barbados......................................33 Anton Belgrave, Tiffany Grosvenor and Shane Lowe Coloniality of Power; Subjugation and Inequality in Post-Britannica Dubai..............................................................................59 Paul Thompson Estimating Fiscal Stability for Barbados and Jamaica 1973-2010..............82 Clyde Mascoll Defining Intra-Caribbean Relations in a Post-Preference Era: Caribbean Regional Integration driven by Exogenous International Trade Pressures..................................................111 Alicia Nicholls and Yentyl Williams Reproductive Rights and Citizenship: Understanding the State’s Inability to Implement the Abortion Laws of Guyana..............................139 Tivia Collins Whose and What World Order? Fanon and the Salience of the Caribbean Reparations Endeavour.............................................................166 Don Marshall Public Lecture A State of Disarray: Public Policy in the Caribbean.................................181 Clive. Y. Thomas Commentary Reflections and a Recipe for Change: Constitutional Reform in Saint Lucia.............................................................................................199 Amit K. Chhabra and Damian E. Greaves Review Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistance and Transformational Possibilities...................................................................209 Patricia Mohammed Contributors 214 Call for Papers – JECS 218 Vol. 41, Nos. 2 and 3, August/December 2016 pp. 1-32 Can Millennials Afford Higher Education? Delroy Chevers Mona School of Business and Management, JAMAICA Abstract Over the past five years, the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) in Jamaica has been struggling to fulfil its mandate of disbursing loans to qualified students. The established government funded SLB was not equipped to handle the 153% increase in loan applications over