Irving Andre is a criminal defence lawyer practising law
in Ontario, Canada. A former gold medalist and First Class Honours student at the University of the West-Indies, he studied History at the Johns Hopkins University and Law at the Osgoode Hall
Law School in Canada. He has published works on Law, Literature and History and with attorney Gabriel Christian, is a cofounder of Pond Casse Press.
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Peter K.B. St. Jean, a sociologist and criminologist, was born in Trafalgar, Dominica. In 1991, Peter graduated from Essex County College ECC with an Associates degree with highest honors in Criminal Justice. He studied abroad at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan in 1995. In 1996 he graduated magna cum laude from St. John’s University with a BA in English, and a BS in Criminal Justice. |
| Peter graduated from Simon Fraser University, Canada in 1997 with a MA in Criminal Justice. For his MA thesis, he conducted a 6 months research project that examined community/police relations in Grand Bay, Dominica. The findings resulted in the first ever Community policing program in Dominica. Currently, Peter is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago where he focuses on explanations for the segregation of high crime areas in Chicago. He is the researcher director of the Chicago Area Project (the nation’s first neighborhood based juvenile delinquency prevention program). Peter is also a visiting professor of social problems and sociological research methods at the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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With over 15 years experience in designing and developing telecommunications software products, Avonelle Christian James is the founder of Advanced Software Concepts, Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. During the first ten years of her career, Ms. James was employed as a Bell Laboratories scientist, working in various research and development facilities. |
| Most recently, Ms. James founded a company Caribbean Suplies.com based in Dominica, whose focus is to provide enterprise-based web solutions for facilitating trade of Caribbean products to international markets. She holds a BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University. She is most notably a graduate of Convent High School |
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Thomson Fontaine PhD is an economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC. Since 1998, Dr. Fontaine has served as an IMF expert on balance of payments and currency issues, consulting with member governments and providing technical assistance to National central banks in several countries including Turkey, Vietnam, Ghana, Turkmenistan, The Gambia, Seychelles, Haiti and Belize. In 1997, he was the recipient of the Hugh McCauley award for outstanding graduate work in economics. |
| Dr. Fontaine has served as Deputy Division Chief and Head of Economic Statistics at the Central Statistical Office of the Ministry of Finance in Dominica. Dr Fontaine also lectured in mathematics and statistics at UWI, money and banking at Clemson University, and micro economic statistics at Limestone College, both US universities. |
Valda Frederica Henry, a certified financial analyst (CFA) is currently pursuing studies leading to a PhD, specialising in social security. Her thesis is titled, “Corporate Governance in the Management of the Social Security Organisations in the OECS and The British Virgin Islands.” She is a consultant with WHITCO Inc of Dominica. She is a former senior investment officer at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) where she headed the in-house portfolio management team, lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus and the Coventry Business School, accounting tutor at the Warwick Business School, and Co-ordinator of the Administrative Reform Programme (ARP) with the Government of Dominica. Miss Henry also holds an MBA from the Manchester Business School and a BSc from the University of the West Indies. She has conducted several seminars in investment and asset-liability management for commercial banks, development banks and social security organisations in the OECS. She has a keen interest in the impact of good governance on the performance of institutions.
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Dr Clayton Shillingford received a BSc, MSc (Botany) and Diploma in Management from the University of the West Indies, an MSc (Plant Pathology) from the University of London and PhD from the University of Illinois. His MSc (Botany) dissertation was titled “Studies on the Vegetation of Dominica.” He has published more than 40 papers and reports on banana diseases and pests and received many scientific awards for his work. His professional affiliations include membership of Imperial College of Science and Technology, London; Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society of North America; American Phytopathological Society; Association for Cooperation in |
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Tropical America (President); Organization of Tropical American Nematologists;
International Society of African Scientists.
A past student of the Dominica Grammar School, he was Senior Science Master of that School, 1962-66; Senior Plant Pathologist and Director of Research, Jamaica Banana Board, 1967-79; and Product development Manager, DuPont 1980 until his retirement in 1998. He was inducted to the DGS Honour Roll in 1993. Dr Shillingford continues to do agricultural consulting work with DuPont.
Dr.
Edmund M. Tavernier is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Department
of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University. Dr. Tavernier holds a Diploma in
Agricultural Science from the Guyana School of Agriculture, Guyana, S.A., a
B.S. in Animal and Poultry Science (Business option) from Tuskegee University,
AL., and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Regional Development and Agricultural Policy from
the University of Minnesota. Dr.
Tavernier's research focus includes agricultural trade policy with special
emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean, and land use issues on the
rural/urban fringe. Dr. Tavernier has
made over 50 presentations nationally and internationally, and published almost
100 articles in, among others, journals, conference proceedings and reports. Montgomery Douglas 41 is the 15th of the
16-member Douglas family. He started at the Portsmouth Government School, then
the Dominica Grammar School. After being awarded valedictorian at the
Portsmouth Secondary School in 1975, he attended the Sixth Form College. After
graduating in 1977, he continued to sing calypsos as "The Mighty
Monty". He gained early acceptance into Cornell University Medical College
after spending only 3 years at the University of Hartford. Upon graduating from
Cornell in 1986, he did 3 years of specialty training in Family Practice at the
University of Rochester, NY. Since 1989 he's been a faculty member in the Dept. of Family
Practice at Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn & Queens (now St. Vincent
Catholic Medical Centers of New York. Last year he was promoted to Acting
Chairman and Residency Program Director. He is the recipient of the 1997-98 New
York State Family Practice Educator of the Year Award. Samuel J. Christian,
MD. is the Founder of Heartland Nutrition Institute; General Surgeon, Mercy
Hospital, Tiffin, Ohio. In 1977, he left to study chemistry in Georgia. He
graduated with honors in 1980 from Shorter College and proceeded to obtain his
medical degree from Howard University in Washington DC in 1984. Dr. Christian
was instrumental in securing the first modern limousine hearse and mortuary
chill-box for Dominica. Sam specialized in general surgery in New Jersey
and in 1993 returned with equipment to perform with Dr. Paul the first
laparoscopic-assisted cholecystectomy on the island.
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