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Peter Polack Cayman Islands ’ LAwyer and author of “ Jamaica Land of Film ”

Peter Polack Cayman Islands ’ LAwyer and author of “ Jamaica Land of Film ”

Peter Polack was born in Jamaica in 1958 where he attended various schools including Jamaica College until 1972 when he went to Denstone College Boarding School in England . He is a proud graduate of the University of the West Indies and Norman Manley Law School . A criminal lawyer in the Cayman Islands since 1983 , he resides there with his wife , two daughters and a granddaughter .
Experiences with youthful offenders led to the exhibit of his first work as an artist entitled The Confinement Assemblage now on permanent display at HM Prison Northward in the Cayman Islands .
He is the author of Last Hot Battle of the Cold War published by Casemate in 2013 . He was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Warfare recently published by Amber Books and his article , Syria : The Evolution Revolution was published in the U . S . Army John F . Kennedy Special Warfare Center magazine . In 2014 he became a part time reporter for Reuters News Agency mainly reporting on the Cuban refugee crisis in the Cayman Islands .
In September 2016 Cambridge Scholars Publishing acquired the rights to publish Jamaica Land of Film the historical record of a century of film production in Jamaica for release in early 2017 .
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