In the Service of the Public: Articles and Speeches 1963-1993, with CommentariesCanoe Press, University of the West Indies, 1995 - 462 páginas Reginald Dumas was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1935 and attended Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, Cambridge University and the Institut Universaire de Haute Etudes Internationales, Geneva. In 1979-80 he was a Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. His non-academic education continues. He spent more than 30 years in the Public Service, both at home and abroad before retiring in 1991, and is the only person from Trinidad and Tobago to have been Ambassador to Washington (the country's top diplomatic post) and to the Organization of American States, and Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister and Head of the Public Service. He has been interim Executive Director of the Institute of Business at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies, and is now a company director and occasional consultant and media commentator. Uniquely among Caribbean writers, Dumas looks at the region and the world as diplomat, public servant and citizen. He ranges over a wide spectrum of crucial contemporary issues such as public sector reform, illegal drug use and the possible impact of the World Trade Organization. He sheds new light on regional affairs such as the 1983 events in Grenada. His views, often acerbic, always penetrating, are certain to stimulate thought. |
Índice
Ten Years Later Commentary | 18 |
Wider CARICOM | 67 |
The Report of the West Indian Commission | 75 |
Addendum 1 | 83 |
Trinidad and Tobagos | 89 |
and CARICOM Development | 99 |
Africa | 122 |
PART | 225 |
Adjustmenttype Programmes and Economic Development | 314 |
Psychological Independence and Nationbuilding Commentary | 332 |
1976 With Apologies to Mr Orwell | 346 |
Some Aspects of the Human Condition | 360 |
Agriculture Community Development | 371 |
Illegal Drugs And Employee Assistance Programmes | 395 |
An Analysis Commentary | 407 |
Perceived Alienation in a Multiracial Society | 429 |
Training and Development Imperatives in | 240 |
The Public Service and Problems of Communication | 259 |
An Overview Commentary | 274 |
Public Policy | 289 |
The Race Factor in Trinidad and Tobago | 441 |
Bibliography | 454 |