Medical Doctor (of 44 years standing)
Specialist Physician and Pulmonologist
Attorney at Law
Consultant Physician, Ministry of Health 1984-2003
Hospital Director, Ministry of Health 1986-2003
Executive Medical Director of Health, South West Regional Health Authority (2004-2010)
Assistant Lecturer, UWI, in Law and Ethics
Past President of the Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago
Masters - Social Work - Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Bachelor of Social Work - Summa Cum Laude, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Frederick Lloyd Cozier was born in Barbados on 18th March 1920. He attended Wesley Hall Boys’ Primary School during the years 1924 to 1931 and Harrison College from 1932 to 1939. He was also enrolled at New College, Oxford University during 1955-1956 while attending the Second Devonshire Course for Overseas Administrative Officers of the British Colonial Service. In 1960, Mr. Cozier attended a Social Development Course at the University of Swansea, Wales.
The late Dr. William Gilbert Demas, son of Trinidad and Tobago, and former Secretary-General of CARICOM, was among those honoured in the first conferment of the OCC at the 13th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM in 1992.Â
Dr. Demas’ career spawned tenures as Secretary-General of CARICOM and President of the Caribbean Development Bank, Chancellor of the University of Guyana and Chairman of the CARICOM Inter-Governmental Ministerial Conference reviewing the function and structure of the University of the West Indies.Â
Sir Meredith Alister McIntyre, OCC Awardee of 1994, and a venerable Caribbean integrationist was born in Grenada.
A highly celebrated West Indian academic and intellectual, and considered one of the great social thinkers of his time, he piloted the movement for integration as Secretary-General of CARICOM from1974-1977, and as Vice Chairman of the West Indian Commission.
The time has come to pull many strands in this paper together in order to form a good appreciation of where the Caribbean Community stood when Dr. Kurleigh King became its Secretary-General. It will be recalled that the high hopes of the Community had been dampened by the effects of the global recession triggered by the increases in the price of petroleum products in the late 70s.
Mr. Roderick Rainford was educated at the University of the West Indies where he obtained a degree in Economics in 1963 and then proceeded to study jurisprudence at Oxford University in 1966. In 1971, he undertook studies in international relations at the University of Toronto, obtaining an MA degree. Mr. Rainford’s academic background is distinguished by the fact that he is one of a handful of West Indians to have won the Rhodes scholarship.
Sir Edwin Wilberforce Carrington, TC, CM, KCN, CHB, OCC is the former Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), serving from 1992 to 2010.