Peter Polack is a graduate of the Norman Manley Law School and the University of the West Indies, where he was co-founder of the Amnesty International campus group. He has previously served as a rapporteur of the International Bar Association and was Co-Founder and first Treasurer of the Caymanian Bar Association. He has practised criminal law in the Cayman Islands for over 30 years. His book The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War was published in 2013, and he was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Warfare (2013). His article “Syria: The Evolution Revolution” was published in the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center magazine in June 2014. His work as an artist, entitled The Confinement Assemblage, inspired by his experience with youthful offenders, is on permanent display at Northward Prison in the Cayman Islands. Polack has also worked as a part-time reporter for Reuters News Agency in the Cayman Islands since 2014, reporting mostly on the Cuban migrant crisis in the Caribbean.
"An appealing ... A5 hardback covering the 100-year history of film making in Jamaica (which we're told, in fact, all started c.1910) - the Caribbean island of which includes, to its name, some 140-plus films made. Herein, then, comes an account detailing some of the better-known actors, also the directors and locations which have contributed to putting Jamaican movie production on the map. You might also want to read it if you're a general fan of Caribbean history."Screentrade, November/December 2017
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