Contributors

• Author: Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
• Profession: Professor of Political Science and Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at York College of The City University of New York
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Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror

Contributors

Caroline Allen is a social scientist working on HIV/AIDS in Africa and the

Caribbean at the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

at the University of Glasgow. Her work is part of the UK Department for International

Development Knowledge Programme on HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries. She

lived in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago from 1991-2001, working on a variety

of sexual and reproductive health research and intervention projects based at the

University of the West Indies and the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC).

Formerly she was behavioural sciences advisor at CAREC’s Special Programme on

Sexually Transmitted Infections, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (1999-2001).

She has published research on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, health promotion,

gender and the sociology of the body in the Caribbean.

Colvin Bishop is a former officer of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force

where his last rank was lieutenant colonel. He is a graduate of the Canadian Forces

Officer Candidate School, the United States Army Infantry School, the Canadian

Forces Staff School, The Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, the

Pearson Peacekeeping Center in Canada, the National Defence University in Beijing,

China, and the United States Army Command and General Staff College. He holds

a Bachelor of Science degree in Government from the University of the West Indies,

St Augustine, and a Masters in Military Arts and Science from the US Army Command

and General Staff College. He is author of ‘The Future of Peace Support Operations

in the Caribbean’, published in Alert magazine, an organ of the Jamaica Defence

Force.

Peter Clegg is a lecturer in politics and international relations at the University

of the West of England, Bristol, in the United Kingdom. His research interests focus

on the international political economy of the Commonwealth Caribbean, and the

politics of the Eastern Caribbean. He is the author of The Caribbean Banana Trade:

From Colonialism to Globalization (2002) and has contributed recent articles to

Social and Economic Studies and the European Review of Latin American and

Caribbean Studies. Peter teaches courses on Caribbean and Latin American politics,

as well as international political economy. Further, he is a member of the Caribbean

Board, a group that provides advice on the region to the Foreign and Commonwealth

Office.

Jermemy Collymore has been chief administrative officer and coordinator of

the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) since 1991 with

overall responsibility for the operational readiness of CDERA, as well as the