Acknowledgements

• Author: Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts
• Profession: Research Fellow of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) University of the West Indies Mona
• Pages: 9-9

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to several persons who have provided support in

the preparation of this book. The manuscript emerged from a thesis

developed during my three years of doctoral research at The University

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scholarship awarded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission

in the United Kingdom (CSCUK). Of course, I must express my gratitude

to my thesis supervisors in the Department of Politics at the University

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thought-provoking annotations served as strong motivation during the

research process and I also thank Jean Grugel for her advice.

This research on the politics of Caribbean integration has indubitably

been enriched by the insightful thoughts shared with me by the various

persons I interviewed during my visits to Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica

and Trinidad and Tobago. In that regard, I make special mention of the

staff of the CARICOM Secretariat, and in particular, former Secretary-

General Edwin Carrington and Special Adviser Marilyne Trotz for being

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former Assistant Secretary-General Edward Greene, and the ‘youth’ of

the Human and Social Development Division for accommodating me

and providing a space to work in the intervals between interviews. I

was also deeply inspired and encouraged by my discussions with Denis

Benn, Norman Girvan, Kenneth Hall and Vaughan Lewis; and I am

grateful to Sir Alister McIntyre, Sir Shridath Ramphal, and Roderick

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tutorials given by Cuthbert Joseph and Duke Pollard; the views and

experiences of Michele Lowe; and the up to date commentaries of David

Jessop and Rickey Singh.

For their hospitality and demonstrations of Caribbean unity, I thank

Emerson Bryan, Ryssa Brathwaite, Yldiz Beighle, Sherwin Bridgewater

and Anthonette July.

Finally, my greatest debt of gratitude is to my mother, Marcia Gilbert-

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enthusiastic monitoring of the work in progress provided stimulation to

complete the study and have it published.