The Caribbean and the wider world : commentaries on my life and career / Alister McIntyre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McIntyre, Alister, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McIntyre, Alister.

Diplomats--Caribbean Area--Biography.

Diplomats.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : The Radcliffe Press, 2016.

Contents:

Section 1 Building capacity

1 Growing up in Grenada 3

2 Early employment and initial political education 14

3 Education in the UK 30

Section 2 My academic career

4 University College of the West Indies, Mona campus, 1960-64 45

5 Teaching in the United States 52

6 UWI, St Augustine, 1964-67 60

7 UWI, Mona, 1967-74 73

Section 3 Working at regional and global levels

8 Working for the region 83

9 External economic relations of CARIFTA/CARICOM 101

10 Working at the United Nations 131

11 Other international activities 154

Section 4 Advisory work for national governments

12 Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago 173

13 Principal assignments in Jamaica 180

14 Assignments in other Caribbean countries 192

Section 5 Development of the University of the West Indies (UWI)

15 Vice-Chancellor, 1988-98 213

16 Very brief thoughts about the future 254.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781784536343

1784536342

OCLC:

960492325