96 Notable alumni of
University of the West Indies, Mona
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The University of the West Indies, Mona is 724th in the world, 24th in Latin America, and 1st in Jamaica by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 96 notable alumni from the University of the West Indies, Mona sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Derek Walcott
- Years
- 1930-2017 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- poetprose writerwriterplaywright
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Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM OCC was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen's Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.
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Andrew Holness
- Occupations
- politician
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Andrew Michael Holness, is a Jamaican politician, who has been the prime minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016, following the 2016 Jamaican general election. He is leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Holness previously served as prime minister from October 2011 to 5 January 2012. He succeeded Bruce Golding as prime minister, and decided to go to the polls in the 29 December 2011 general election in an attempt to get his own mandate from the Jamaican electorate. He failed in that bid, however, losing to the People's National Party led by Portia Simpson-Miller, with the PNP gaining 42 seats to the JLP's 21. Following that defeat, Holness served as Leader of the Opposition from January 2012 to March 2016, when he once again assumed the position of prime minister. In 2020, the Labour Party won a landslide in another general election, and on 7 September Holness was sworn in for another term as prime minister.
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Imran Nazar Hosein
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- writer'ālimschool teacherphilosopher
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Imran Nazar Hosein is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian Islamic preacher, author and philosopher, who specializes in Islamic eschatology, world politics, economics, and modern socio-economic/political issues. He is the author of Jerusalem in the Qur'an and other books.
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Sandra Mason
- Occupations
- politicianjudge
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Dame Sandra Prunella Mason is a Barbadian politician, lawyer, and diplomat who is serving as the first president of Barbados since 2021. She was previously the eighth and final governor-general of Barbados from 2018 to 2021, the second woman to hold the office. On 20 October 2021, Mason was elected by the Parliament of Barbados to become the country's first president, and took office on 30 November 2021, when Barbados ceased to be a constitutional monarchy and became a republic.
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Marlon James
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Marlon James is a Jamaican writer. He is the author of five novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009), A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), which won him the 2015 Man Booker Prize, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019), and Moon Witch, Spider King (2022). Now living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the U.S., James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also a faculty lecturer at St. Francis College's Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing.
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Jack Warner
- Occupations
- sports executivebusinesspersonpoliticianteacher
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Jack Austin Warner is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, businessman, and former football executive. Warner was Vice President of FIFA and President of CONCACAF until his suspension and eventual resignation from these roles in 2011. He is also the former Minister of National Security of Trinidad and Tobago and was an elected member of the country's parliament from 2007 to 2015. He was also the owner of Joe Public F.C., a professional football club in Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago. Warner has been implicated in numerous corruption scandals and was banned for life from football related activities by FIFA in 2015. He currently faces extradition to the United States to face corruption charges.
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Dean Barrow
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Dean Oliver Barrow, SC PC is a politician from Belize who served as the fourth prime minister of Belize from 2008 until 2020 and as leader of Belize's United Democratic Party.
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David A. Granger
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
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David Arthur Granger is a Guyanese former politician and retired military officer who served as the ninth president of Guyana from 2015 to 2020. A member of the People’s National Congress (PNC), he previously served as Commander of the Guyana Defence Force and as National Security Adviser from 1990 to 1992. He was leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Guyana from 2012 to 2015.
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Keith Rowley
- Enrolled in the University of the West Indies, Mona
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in geochemistry
- Occupations
- politiciangeologist
- Biography
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Keith Christopher Rowley, is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician serving as the seventh prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, first elected into office on 9 September 2015 and again following the 2020 general election. He has led the People's National Movement (PNM) since May 2010 and was Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015. He has also served as the Member of the House of Representatives for Diego Martin West since 1991. He is a volcanologist by profession, holding a doctorate in geology, specializing in geochemistry.
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Lisa Hanna
- Occupations
- modeltelevision presenterpoliticianradio personalitybeauty pageant contestant
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Lisa Rene Shanti Hanna is a Jamaican politician and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1993, becoming the third Jamaican to win the title. A member of the opposition People's National Party, Hanna currently serves as Member of Parliament for Saint Ann South East, and was Jamaica's Minister of Youth and Culture from 2012–2016. Hanna was a candidate in the 2020 People's National Party leadership election, following the PNP's defeat at the 2020 Jamaican general election and the subsequent resignation of PNP President and Opposition Leader, Peter Phillips. Hanna was defeated by Mark Golding.
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Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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- politicianlawyer
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The Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, often referred to by her initials KPB, is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian lawyer, politician and educator who is the Leader of the Opposition of Trinidad and Tobago, political leader of the United National Congress (UNC) political party, and was the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 26 May 2010 until 9 September 2015. She was the country's first female prime minister, attorney general, and Leader of the Opposition, the first woman to chair the Commonwealth of Nations and the first woman of Indian origin to be a prime minister of a country outside of India and the wider subcontinent.
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Ralph Gonsalves
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ralph Everard Gonsalves is a Vincentian politician. He is currently the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP).
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Edwidge Danticat
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- novelistchildren's writerwriteruniversity teacher
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Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. As of the fall of 2023, she will be the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
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Wendy Fitzwilliam
- Occupations
- modellawyerbeauty pageant contestant
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Wendy Marcelle Fitzwilliam is a Trinidadian lawyer, actress, model, singer, tv host and beauty queen who won Miss Trinidad and Tobago Universe 1998 and became the second Miss Universe in history from Trinidad and Tobago. Miss Universe 1998 is also the third woman of African heritage to win the beauty pageant.
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Keith Mitchell
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- mathematicianpoliticianuniversity teachercricketer
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Keith Claudius Mitchell is a Grenadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Grenada from 1995 to 2008 and from 2013 to 2022. He is the longest-serving Prime Minister in Grenadian history, holding the office for more than 22 years. He is currently leader of the New National Party (NNP) and has been the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives of Grenada from 2008 to 2013, and again since 2022.
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Colville Young
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- novelistcomposerwriterpolitician
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Sir Colville Norbert Young is a Belizean politician who served as the second governor-general of Belize. He is also a patron of the Scout Association of Belize. He was appointed as the Governor-General in 1993, taking office on 17 November of that year, and was knighted in 1994.
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Hubert Minnis
- Occupations
- politician
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Hubert Alexander Minnis, ON is a Bahamian politician and doctor who served as prime minister of the Bahamas from May 2017 to 16 September 2021. Minnis is the leader of the Free National Movement, the former governing party, and the Member of Parliament for the New Providence constituency of Killarney. First elected to the legislature in the 2007 election, he succeeded Hubert Ingraham as party leader following the party's defeat in the 2012 election.
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Bruce Golding
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- politician
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Orette Bruce Golding is a former Jamaican politician who served as eighth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 11 September 2007 to 23 October 2011. He is a member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which he led from 2005 to his resignation in 2011.
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Anthony Carmona
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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HE Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona is a Trinidadian politician who was the fifth President of Trinidad and Tobago from 2013 to 2018. Previously, he was a High Court Judge at the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago, and he served as a Judge of the International Criminal Court from 2012 to 2013.
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P. J. Patterson
- Enrolled in the University of the West Indies, Mona
- In 1959 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Percival Noel James Patterson,, popularly known as P.J. Patterson, is a Jamaican former politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He served in office for 14 years, making him the longest-serving prime minister in Jamaica's history. He was the leader of the People's National Party from 1992 to 2006.
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Timothy Harris
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timothy Sylvester Harris is a Saint Kittitian and Nevisian politician, who served as the third prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 2015 to 2022. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 August 2001 to 25 January 2008, as Minister of Finance from 2008 to 2010, and as Senior Minister and Minister for Agriculture from 2010 to 2013.
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Cécile La Grenade
- Occupations
- scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Dame Cécile Ellen Fleurette La Grenade, is a Grenadian food scientist who has served as Governor-General of Grenada since 7 May 2013.
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Donovan Ricketts
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Donovan Ricketts is a Jamaican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and is currently a goalkeepers coach for Carolina Core FC. Ricketts played more than 100 games for Bradford City in England, and has more than 100 appearances in Major League Soccer and has twice been named MLS Goalkeeper of the Year. He was also the captain of the Jamaica national team, earning 100 caps for his country, until his retirement from international football in 2013.
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Freundel Stuart
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Freundel Jerome Stuart, OR, PC, SC is a Barbadian politician who served as seventh Prime Minister of Barbados and the leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) from 23 October 2010 to 21 February 2013; and from 21 February 2013 to 25 May 2018. He succeeded David Thompson, who had died in office on 23 October 2010 from pancreatic cancer.
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Patrick Manning
- Occupations
- politiciangeologist
- Biography
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The Hon. Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning was a Trinidadian politician who was the fourth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago; his terms ran from 17 December 1991 to 9 November 1995 and from 24 December 2001 to 26 May 2010. He was also political leader of the People's National Movement (PNM) from 1987 to 2010. A geologist by training, Manning served as Member of Parliament for the San Fernando East constituency from 1971 until 2015 when he was replaced by Randall Mitchell and was the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives. He was the Leader of the Opposition from 1986 to 1990 and again from 1995 to 2001.
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Hansle Parchment
- Occupations
- athletics competitorhurdler
- Biography
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Hansle Parchment is a Jamaican track and field athlete, competing in the 110 metres hurdles. He is the reigning Olympic champion in the event.
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Giselle Laronde
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodel
- Biography
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Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde-West is a Trinidadian model, Stenographer and beauty queen who won Miss World 1986, representing Trinidad and Tobago. She became the second woman from that nation to win an international beauty pageant, after Janelle Commissiong Miss Universe 1977 and the only one to date, to win Miss World. The pageant was held in London, UK at the Royal Albert Hall. In that year, the US was represented by aspiring actress Halle Berry.
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Orlando Patterson
- Enrolled in the University of the West Indies, Mona
- In 1962 graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teachersociologist
- Biography
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Horace Orlando Patterson OM is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica, as well as the sociology of development. He is currently the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Patterson's 1991 book Freedom in the Making of Western Culture won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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Owen Arthur
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Owen Seymour Arthur was a Barbadian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Barbados from 6 September 1994 to 15 January 2008. He is the longest-serving Barbadian prime minister to date. He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 1 August 1993 to 6 September 1994 and from 23 October 2010 to 21 February 2013.
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Christine Kangaloo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christine Carla Kangaloo is a Trinidadian politician, who is the president of Trinidad and Tobago since 2023. She was president of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago from 2015 until her resignation to run for president in 2023. She is the only person to serve as both President and Vice President of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago, the first woman to serve as Senate Vice President and third woman to serve as acting President of Trinidad and Tobago and Senate President. She became the second woman to serve as President of Trinidad and Tobago upon her assumption of office on 20 March 2023. Kangaloo has served as an Opposition Senator, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Minister of Legal Affairs and Minister of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education in previous People's National Movement governments.
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David Thompson
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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David John Howard Thompson was the sixth prime minister of Barbados from 15 January 2008 until his death from pancreatic cancer on 23 October 2010.
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Kenny Anthony
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Kenny Davis Anthony is a Saint Lucian politician who was Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 1997 to 2006 and again from 2011 to 2016. As leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party, he was Leader of the Opposition from 2006 to 2011 and returned to office as Prime Minister on 30 November 2011 following the 2011 election. He left office after the SLP's defeat in the 2016 election and announced his resignation as party leader.
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Philip Pierre
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servant
- Biography
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Philip Joseph Pierre is a Saint Lucian politician currently serving as the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia since 28 July 2021. Pierre serves as the Minister for Finance, Economic Development and the Youth Economy. He is the Leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party since 18 June 2016. He has represented the Castries East constituency in the House of Assembly since 1997.
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Denzil Douglas
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- politician
- Biography
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Denzil Llewellyn Douglas is a Saint Kittitian and Nevisian politician and the longest-serving prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, in office from 1995 to 2015. He was the leader of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) from 1989 to 2021. He was the leader of the parliamentary opposition from 1989 to 1995 and from 2015 to 2022.
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Pearlette Louisy
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Calliopa Pearlette Louisy is a Saint Lucian academic, who served as governor-general of Saint Lucia from 19 September 1997, until her resignation on 31 December 2017. She is the first woman to hold the vice-regal office.
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Kevin Fenton
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Professor Kevin Andrew Fenton, CBE, FFPH is a Public Health Physician and Infectious Disease Epidemiologist. He is the London Regional Director at Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Regional Public Health Director at NHS London and the Statutory Health Advisor to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. He is the current President of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health and holds Honourable Professorships with the University College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Tillman Thomas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tillman Joseph Thomas, CBE is a Grenadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Grenada from 2008 to 2013. He was the leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from 2000 to 2014.
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Orlando Smith
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Orlando Smith, OBE is a British Virgin Islands politician and the former Premier of the British Virgin Islands from 2011 to 2019 and from 2003 to 2007. He also formerly served as Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands (as the role was formerly known before the 2007 constitution was adopted) from 2003 to 2007. He first won the office when his National Democratic Party won the 2003 general election, being the party's first victory at a general election in its history.
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Lloyd Erskine Sandiford
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, KA, PC was a Barbadian politician. He served as the fourth prime minister of Barbados from 1987 to 1994, and later served as Barbados' first resident ambassador in Beijing, China, from 2010 to 2013.
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Marlene Malahoo Forte
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Marlene Patricia Malahoo Forte is a Jamaican politician. She has been the Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs since January 2022, and was the Attorney General of Jamaica from 7 March 2016 to 10 January 2022. She served as a Senator for the Jamaica Labour Party from 2009 to 2016, and served as State Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade from 2009 to 2012. Prior to entering politics, she served as a Resident Magistrate.
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Kei Miller
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet, fiction writer, essayist and blogger. He is also a professor of creative writing.
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Kennedy Simmonds
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds, KCMG, is a Saint Kittitian and Nevisian politician who served as the first prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 1983 to 1995.
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Colm Imbert
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Colm Imbert is a politician in Trinidad and Tobago. He is the Minister of Health since September 2015 and Member of Parliament for the constituency of Diego Martin North/East, which he has represented since December 1991.
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Faris Al-Rawi
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Faris Al-Rawi is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician. He was the former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago from 2015 to 2022. He is also a Member of the House of Representatives for the constituency of San Fernando West.
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Dennis Francis
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Dennis Francis is a diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago who has served as his country's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York since 2021. On 1 June 2023 he was elected to serve as President of the United Nations General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session, beginning his term on 5 September 2023.
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Rufus Ewing
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Rufus Washington Ewing is a Turks and Caicos Islander politician and medical doctor who served as the 3rd Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 13 November 2012 to 20 December 2016. He was elected Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the 2012 general election. He was the islands' first premier since the government of the United Kingdom suspended the office in 2009, temporarily imposing direct rule under the office of the Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands, due to corruption allegations against the government of Michael Misick.
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Essa M. Faal
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Essa Mbye Faal is a Gambian international lawyer who is a defence counsel at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a senior partner at Faal and Co. Faal led the prosecution in the Darfur investigations and as a lead defence counsel for a number of other cases. In 2018, he was appointed as chief prosecutor at the Gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC).
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Kwame Dawes
- Occupations
- poetperiodical editorwritermagazine editor
- Biography
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Kwame Senu Neville Dawes is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and editor-in-chief at Prairie Schooner magazine.
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Mark Brantley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mark Anthony Graham Brantley is the Premier of Nevis, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and former Minister of Foreign Affairs for St Kitts and Nevis. On May 10, 2022, Dr Timothy Harris, having lost the support of the elected majority to function as Prime Minister and facing a historic Motion of No Confidence in the National Parliament, decided to dissolve the Parliament and purported to revoke the appointment of more than 50% of his former Cabinet, including the Hon Mark Brantley. Brantley previously served as the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis (2007 – 2015). He is married and has 2 daughters. Brantley read law at the University of the West Indies, obtained his Legal Education Certificate of Merit from Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica and also holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford, St. Catherine College. Prior to entering politics, Brantley worked as an attorney.
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Ivor Archie
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Ivor Archie is a Trinidadian jurist who has served as chief justice of Trinidad and Tobago since 2008. He was formerly solicitor general of the Cayman Islands.
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George Brizan
- Years
- 1942-2012 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Ignatius Brizan, CMG, CBE was a Grenadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Grenada for four months in 1995. He moved to the top post in February, upon the resignation of Nicholas Brathwaite, and remained in office until Keith Mitchell was inaugurated on 22 June.
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Bridgid Annisette-George
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bridgid Annisette-George is a Trinidad and Tobago lawyer and politician. She has been the Speaker of House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago since 2015, the second female to hold the position and currently the world's second longest female incumbent to consecutively hold the office of Speaker. She previously served as a Senator and the third female Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago for the PNM before resigning to return to her private law practice.
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Marcella Liburd
- Occupations
- barristerpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Dame Marcella Althea Liburd is a Kittitian politician who is the fifth governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis, serving since 2023. Trained as a teacher and then as a barrister and solicitor, Liburd was the first woman to serve as both the Speaker of the National Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis and the Governor-General, as well as the first Governor-General appointed by Charles III (rather than being carried over from Elizabeth II's reign). She has served in various Ministerial positions including Acting Prime Minister and Chair of the Opposition for the Labour Party. She was the first woman to serve as Chair in the 81-year-old organization’s history.
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Vance Amory
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vance Winkworth Amory was a Saint Kitts and Nevis politician and cricketer. He served two stints as Premier of Nevis, from 1992 to 2006 and from 2013 to 2017, and served as the Minister of Sports in the Nevis Island Administration. He founded and led the Concerned Citizens' Movement. The airport in Nevis, Vance W. Amory International Airport, bears his name.
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Fae Ellington
- Occupations
- actorjournalist
- Biography
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Fae Ellington, CD, OD, is a Jamaican media personality and lecturer best known for hosting the television series Morning Time on JBC for more than twelve years.
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Kenneth Baugh
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Kenneth Lee O'Neil Baugh, was a Jamaican politician and surgeon. A member of the Jamaica Labour Party, he served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and Minister of Health.
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Tiphanie Yanique
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Tiphanie Yanique from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, is a Caribbean American fiction writer, poet and essayist who lives in New York. In 2010 the National Book Foundation named her a "5 Under 35" honoree. She also teaches creative writing, currently based at Emory University.
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Karen E. Nelson
- Occupations
- microbiologistevolutionary biologist
- Biography
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Karen Nelson is a Jamaican-born American microbiologist who was formerly president of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). On July 6, 2021 she joined Thermo Fisher Scientific as Chief Scientific Officer.
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Erna Brodber
- Enrolled in the University of the West Indies, Mona
- In 1963 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history
- Occupations
- sociologistwriter
- Biography
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Erna Brodber is a Jamaican writer, sociologist and social activist. She is the sister of writer Velma Pollard.
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K. Dwight Venner
- Years
- 1946-2016 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Sir Kenneth Dwight Vincent Venner, KBE, SLC was the Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, a position he held from December 1989 to November 2015. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Finance and Planning in the St Lucian Government between November 1981 and November 1989.
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Carissa Etienne
- Enrolled in the University of the West Indies, Mona
- Graduated with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Carissa Faustina Etienne was a Dominican public health expert. She served as the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO) (2018–2023). Up to her death, she was in her second five-year term as PAHO director, having been re-elected by the PAHO member states during the Pan American Sanitary Conference in September 2017. In January 2018, she was named Regional Director for the Americas for WHO by its Executive Board based in Geneva. She was an advocate for universal health coverage.
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Antonette Wemyss Gorman
- Occupations
- naval officer
- Biography
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Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman is a Jamaican military officer serving as the chief of defence staff of the Jamaica Defence Force; she holds the rank of rear admiral. She is the first female chief of staff in Jamaica, and was also the first female officer to serve at sea, and the first woman to reach the rank of commander in the JDF. Her seagoing appointment was the first appointment of a woman to a front line combat role in the Caribbean.
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Wilfred Elrington
- Occupations
- journalistlawyerpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Wilfred Peter "Sedi" Elrington is a Belizean politician who has been the Foreign Minister of Belize since 2008.
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Kamina Johnson-Smith
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Kamina Johnson Smith is a Jamaican attorney-at-law and Senator. Johnson Smith is Jamaica’s first female Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Since 2016, Johnson Smith has served concurrently as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and Leader of Government Business in the Senate.
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Merle Collins
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- university teacherperforming artistnovelistartistwriter
- Biography
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Merle Collins is a distinguished Grenadian poet and short story writer.
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Rocky Ricardo Meade
- Born in
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Jamaica - Biography
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Lieutenant General Rocky Ricardo Meade is a Jamaican military leader who was the third Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), serving from December 2016 to January 2022.
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Hazel Manning
- Born in
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Trinidad and Tobago - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hazel Anne Marie Manning is a former Trinidad and Tobago politician. She entered the Senate as a People's National Movement Senator after the 2001 general election. Senator Manning served as Minister of Education of Trinidad and Tobago and subsequently as Minister of Local Government. She is also the widow of former Prime Minister Patrick Manning.
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Reuben Meade
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Reuben Theodore Meade is a retired politician from Montserrat who served as the island's first Premier between 2010 and 2014. He previously served as Chief Minister between 1991 and 1996 and 2009 to 2010. A member of the Movement for Change and Prosperity (MCAP), he previously led the now-defunct National Progressive Party.
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Monica Dacon
- Years
- 1934-.. (age 90)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Monica Jessie Dacon DBE, CMG is a Saint Vincent and the Grenadines former schoolteacher, educator and politician. She is the widow of parliamentarian St. Clair Dacon.
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Stephen Vasciannie
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Stephen Charles Vasciannie is a Jamaican law professor. Formerly Deputy Solicitor-General and principal of the Norman Manley Law School, Vasciannie served as Jamaica's Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiary to the United States from 2012 up to July 17, 2015, when he stepped down to return to academic life.
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Catherine Pollard
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Catherine Pollard is a diplomat who has been serving as Under Secretary-General of the United Nations for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance since 2019. From 2015 until 2019, she was the Coordinator for Multilingualism for the United Nations; in this capacity, she also served as Under Secretary-General of the United Nations for General Assembly and Conference Management.
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Pamela Coke-Hamilton
- Occupations
- international forum participantlawyer
- Biography
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Pamela Rosemarie Coke-Hamilton is a Caribbean lawyer and trade expert who has been serving as Executive Director of the International Trade Centre since 2020.
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Charles Fernandez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles “Max” Fernandez is a Labour Party politician from Antigua and Barbuda who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade from June 2014 to 2018. He currently serves as Minister of Tourism, Investment and Economic Development.
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Darrell Bradley
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Darrell Bradley is a Belizean attorney and politician. He has served as Mayor of Belize City from 2012 to 2018
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Mercedes Richards
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Mercedes Tharam Richards, née Davis, was a Jamaican astronomy and astrophysics professor. Her investigation focused on computational astrophysics, stellar astrophysics and exoplanets and brown dwarfs, and the physical dynamics of interacting binary stars systems. However, her pioneering research in the tomography of interacting binary star systems and cataclysmic variable stars to predict magnetic activity and simulate gas flow is her most known work.
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Rose-Marie Belle Antoine
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine is a Trinidadian academic, attorney-at-law, author and Professor of Labor Law and Offshore Financial Law. She currently serves as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Board for Graduate Studies and Research at The University of the West Indies. She previously served as regional Dean of the Faculty of Law, the first Dean of the Faculty of Law at St. Augustine, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law at St. Augustine from 2004 to 2009, senior lecturer from 1998-2004, lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Cave Hill from 1991-1998 and temporary lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Cave Hill from 1989-1991. She was inaugural Director of the LLM from 2000-2002.
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Don Martina
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dominico Felipe "Don" Martina is a Curaçaoan politician. He served two terms as Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles. His first term lasted from November 1979 to October 1984 and his second term from January 1986 to July 1988.
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Norman Girvan
- Enrolled in the University of the West Indies, Mona
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in Economics
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Norman P. Girvan was a Jamaican professor, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States between 2000 and 2004. He was born in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. He died aged 72 in Cuba on 9 April 2014, after having suffered a fall while hiking in Dominica in early 2014. He had been a member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy since 2009, and in 2010 was appointed the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's personal representative on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy. He was Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
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Paula Gopee-Scoon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paula Gopee-Scoon is a representative of Point Fortin and a government minister in Trinidad and Tobago. Formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs for Trinidad and Tobago from 2007 to 2010, she was appointed the Minister of Trade and Industry on September 11, 2015. She was reappointed August 19, 2020, following the 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election. She attended the University of the West Indies, where she received a B.Sc, and after that the University of London. She has three children, one of whom was a squash player at Princeton University.
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Richard Bernal
- Years
- Died in 2023
- Occupations
- economistdiplomat
- Biography
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Richard L. Bernal, OJ was a Jamaican economist and diplomat. Bernal served as the Jamaican Ambassador to the United States from 1991 to 2001, simultaneously holding the post of Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the Organization of American States. As of March 2016, Bernal held the post of Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs at the University of the West Indies (UWI). Bernal was a Member of the Order of Jamaica. In 2018, he was made a Professor of Practice (PoP) in international economic policy at The UWI. Bernal was a Member of the Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He was also a member of the Board of Directors at Laspau, Harvard University.
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Janice Pereira
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Dame Janice Mesadis Pereira DBE, is the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. She became the first female Chief Justice and the first person from the British Virgin Islands to become Chief Justice in 2012.
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Edwin W. Carrington
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Sir Edwin Wilberforce Carrington, is the former Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, serving from 1992 to 2010.
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Tracy Davidson-Celestine
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tracy Petulia Davidson-Celestine is a Tobagonian politician who is the former Secretary of Health, Wellness and Family Development, as well as a former Councillor in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) becoming one of the leading members addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in Tobago. She is the first female political leader in the THA, a defeated Chief Secretary candidate, the first woman to lead a Tobagonian party with representation in the House of Representatives and Tobago House of Assembly and one of the first bilingual political leaders in Trinidad and Tobago, as a result she has been popularly referred to by the nickname Boss Lady.
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Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
- Occupations
- biomedical engineer
- Biography
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Anthony "Tony" Guiseppi-Elie is a Trinidad-born, American scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur. He is the President and Sr. Fellow of the American International Institute of Medical Sciences, Engineering and Innovation and the President and Scientific director of ABTECH Scientific, Inc. He is noted for his research and commercial development of biologically inspired and chemically responsive electroconductive hydrogels. Guiseppi-Elie is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the transdisciplinary journal Bioengineering.
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Pennelope Beckles-Robinson
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Pennelope Althea Beckles-Robinson is a Trinidad and Tobago attorney and politician. She has served as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for Arima since the 2020 general election. She is the current Minister of Planning and Development. Previously she was the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
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Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean is a Barbadian politician who served as her country's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2018.
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Gale Rigobert
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gale Tracy Christiane Rigobert is a Saint Lucian politician, former Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development. She is the former representative for Micoud North constituency in the House of Assembly.
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Andaiye
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Andaiye, born Sandra Williams, was a Guyanese social, political, and gender rights activist, who has been described as "a transformative figure in the region's political struggle, particularly in the late 1970s, '80s and '90s".
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Kenneth Benjamin
- Occupations
- judgejurist
- Biography
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Kenneth Andrew Charles Benjamin is a Caribbean jurist. A dual national of Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda, he served as Chief Justice of Belize from 15 September 2011 to 20 March 2020.
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Kendel Hippolyte
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- playwright
- Biography
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Kendel Hippolyte is a St Lucian poet and playwright.
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Donnya Piggott
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Donnya "Zi" Piggott is a tech entrepreneur, designer and human rights advocate from Barbados. In 2012, she co-founded B-GLAD, a support organisation for LGBT persons in Barbados. In 2015, she was awarded Queen Elizabeth's Young Leaders Award for her activism in changing the lives of young people. Donnya is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Pink Coconuts.
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Hubert J. Charles
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Hubert J. Charles is a Dominican diplomat and educator. He is the current ambassador of Dominica to the Organization of American States and to the United States.
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Shanique Palmer
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Shanique Ava-Marie Palmer is a Jamaican communications consultant. She is currently the managing director of Jamaica-based public relations and communications firm Bespoke Communications.
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DeLisle Worrell
- Occupations
- banker
- Biography
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Dr. DeLisle Worrell is a former governor of the Central Bank of Barbados. He served as governor from November 2009 until March 2017. He has also served as executive director of the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance. Since June 2018, he is a member of the Financial Policy Council of the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
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Tracy Robinson
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Tracy S. Robinson is Jamaican attorney and lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies. She served as commissioner on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) from 2012 to 2015 and in 2014 was elected as chair of the organization. She has served as the Rapporteur on the Rights of Women since January 2012 for the Organization of American States (OAS) and helped establish the Rapporteurship on the rights of LGBTI, serving as its first Rapporteur.
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Angela King
- Years
- 1938-2007 (aged 69)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Angela Evelyn Vernon King was a Jamaican diplomat. She worked for the United Nations for 38 years, from 1966 to 2004, working mainly for equal rights for women. She was appointed Assistant Secretary-General for gender issues in 1997, remaining in that post until she retired in 2004.
