Executives Biodata

Danny Roberts, Vice President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) and of the National Workers Union (NWU), President of the Union of Clerical, Administrative & Supervisory Employees (UCASE), and part-time lecturer in industrial relations at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Technology Jamaica (UTECH);

Senator Dwight Nelson , CD (Deputy Chairman), President of the JCTU, Vice President of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) and Opposition Spokesman on Information;

R. Danny Williams, OJ, CD, JP, (Treasurer), business consultant, former Minister of Industry & Commerce, former Chairman of Air Jamaica, founder and Past President & CEO of Life of Jamaica (insurance company), current Chairman of the Board of Jamaica College and director of several major Jamaican companies;

Grace McGhie Brown - Executive Assistant to Michael Manley (1994-1997), one of Jamaica’s most prominent theatre artistes and three-time “best actress” awardee.

Matthew Beaubrun, CD, medical practitioner, former Jamaican Ambassador to Venezuela and Ambassador at Large since 1989, Past President of the Medical Association of Jamaica, the Commonwealth Medical Association and the Caribbean Federation of Mental Health, former Chairman of the Commonwealth Caribbean Medical Council, former 1st Vice-President of the Jamaica Olympic Association, and executive of numerous national, regional and international bodies in the fields of health, sports and diplomacy;

Hilary Beckles, Professor of Social History, Pro-Vice Chancellor, and Principal of the Cave Hill, Barbados, campus of the UWI;

Richard Bernal, OJ, economist, Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, former Jamaican Ambassador to the USA, High Commissioner to the Bahamas and Permanent Representative to the Organisation of American States (OAS), former Honorary Professor of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies, UWI, and General Manager/Director and Administrative General Manager of the Workers Bank (1986-1991);

Karen Bhoorasingh, attorney-at-law, General Manager of West Indies Alliance Insurance Company Ltd, current and former member of several public and private sector boards;

Anthony Bogues, Professor of Africana Studies & Political Science and current Chair of the Africana Studies Department at Brown University, USA, Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for African Studies of the University of Cape Town; author of 2003 Atlantic award-winning non-fiction work, Associate Director of the Centre for Caribbean Thought at the UWI, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Michael Manley (1989-1992);


 

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