Personal Information: 

NAME:

Jeanette Morris

DATE OF BIRTH:

April 1, 1941

PLACE OF BIRTH:

Port of Spain, Trinidad

MARITAL STATUS:

Married, Two (2) children

PRESENT POSITION:

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Education

The University of the West Indies

St. Augustine

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

West Indies.

EDUCATION:

2000

Ph.D. Faculty of Humanities and Education,

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

1992:

M.A. (ED.), Faculty of Education,

The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

1978:

M.Sc. (Portuguese with Linguistics)

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

1974:

Diploma in Education with Distinction

The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

1963:

M.A. Honours. First-Class.  Spanish with French.

University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

1950 - 1958:

Bishop Anstey High School, Port of Spain

.EMPLOYMENT RECORD

1963 – 1964

Teacher II, Bishop Anstey High School.

1963 – 1964

Part-time Lecturer in Spanish, Faculty of Arts and General Studies, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

1965 – 1976

Teacher II, St. Augustine Girls' High School.

1975 – 1976

Seconded to Institute of Languages.

1976 – 1978

Study Leave - Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

1978 – 1979

Teacher II,  Mucurapo Senior Comprehensive School.

1979 – 1980

Temporary Lecturer in Spanish, Department of Language and Linguistics,  The University of the West Indies,  St. Augustine.

1980 – 1982

Language Instructor in Spanish and Portuguese, Institute of Languages.

1982 – Present

Lecturer, School of Education, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

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SCHOLARSHIP AND STUDY GRANTS

1959

Trinidad and Tobago Girls' Island Scholarship.

1976 – 1978

O.A.S. Post-graduate Fellowship.

1989

IDRC Fellowship to attend the Second Summer Institute on Gender and Development at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1993

Grant from the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. to attend a Summer Workshop in Fieldwork Methods held at the Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

1994

Counterpart staff visit to the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague through the project of cooperation with the University of the West Indies.

1.

4 - 14 July 1979

Fourth Latin American Geological Congress, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

2.

July 1980

Caribbean Conference of Churches training seminar in interpretation techniques, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

3.

18 - 26 July 1981

Eighth World Council of YMCA's.  Estes Park, Colorado, U.S.A., (Spanish - English, French - English).

4.

4 - 9 October, 1981

Human Rights Conference, Grand Anse, Grenada, West Indies.

5.

19 - 25 November 1981

Third General Assembly of Caribbean Conference of Churches, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

6.

6 - 9 June, 1982

Seventh Caribbean Congress on Mental Retardation, Port of Spain, Trinidad

.

7.

16 - 18 January, 1983

Conference of Lions' Club of Latin America and the Caribbean, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

8.

20 January, 1983

ECLAC meeting, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

9.

19 - 21 April, 1983

CAN - TEC Meeting, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

10.

6 - 8 July, 1983

ECLAC meeting, Port of Spain, Trinidad

.

11.

31 October -3 November, 1983

Meeting of Cane Farmers' Association, San Fernando Trinidad.

12.

6 - 12 May, 1984

Fifteenth Annual Conference of ACURIL (Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries), Port of Spain, Trinidad.

13.

31 May, 1985

Productivity Seminar, Holiday Inn, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

14.

25 May, 1985

Meeting of Caribbean Cement Association, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

15.

6 June, 1984

Meeting of the Group of Four Oil- producing Countries, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

16.

20 - 25 January, 1985

ECLAC/UNESCO Regional Seminar on  Information Services and Systems, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

17.

20 - 25 January, 1986

ECLAC, UNESCO Regional Seminar on Information Services and Systems on Research in Progress, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

18.

20 - 26 July, 1986

Fifteenth Interamerican Scout conference, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

19.

8 - 19 September, 1986

ECLAC Regional Workshop on Microcomputers in Library and Information Management, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

20.

23 - 28 February, 1987

Inter-regional consultation of National Commissions on UNESCO's Third Medium Term Plan 1990 - 1995.  Port of Spain, Trinidad.

21.

1 - 4 June, 1987

UNESCO Conference, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

22.

16 August, 1987

Interpreter to Prime Minister Robinson and Mrs. Robinson during the visit of Brazilian President Sarney to Trinidad and Tobago (Portuguese - English and English - Portuguese).

23.

27 - 29 October, 1987

CDCC Meeting, Tenth Session, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

24.

November 1988

CDCC Meeting Eleventh Session, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

25.

October 1990

VII Ministerial Meeting on the Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Port of Spain.

26.

January 1991

Caribbean Cement Association.  Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.

27.

February 1991.

Caricom meeting.  Tower Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana

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28.

May 1992

Acuril Conference, Hilton Hotel, Port of Spain.

29.

October 1992

Conference on Women and Racism.  Valley Vue Hotel, St. Ann's (Spanish and Portuguese - English).

30.

May 1995

ECLAC meeting.  Hilton Hotel, Port of Spain.

31.

July 1995

Technical preparatory meeting for the Inaugural meeting of the Association of Caribbean States.  Central Bank, Port of Spain.

32.

September 1995

Interpreter to Latin American and Caribbean Regional Caucus, Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China.

33.

November 1995

Fifth meeting of Ministers of the Caribbean Forum of ACP States under the First financial protocol of the Lome IV Convention, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

34.

October 15-16, 1996

Association of Caribbean States Second Meeting of the Special Committee on Budget and Administration, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

35.

28 October - 1 November, 1996

Caribbean Ministerial Meeting on Poverty Eradication, Hilton Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

36.

18 - 19 November, 1996

ECLAC Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean sub-region on follow-up to the Beijing Platform for Action, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

37.

17-20 February, 1997

OAS/CITEL Permanent Consultative Committee Broadcasting Meeting, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

38.

6-10 April, 1997

Cariforum Meeting with European Union in preparation for Lome V negotiations. Mt. Irvine Hotel, Tobago.

39.

11 April, 1997

Caricom/USA Preparatory Meeting for Barbados Summit. Mt. Irvine Hotel, Tobago.

40.

15-16 May, 1997

Association of Caribbean States, First meeting of the Technical Group on Transport, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

41.

3-4 June, 1997

Association of Caribbean States, Third Meeting of the Special Committee on Budget and Administration, Rex Grenadian, Point Salines, Grenada.

42

4-5 September, 1997

Sixth Meeting of the Executive Board of the Ministerial Council of the Association of Caribbean States.

43

6-9 October, 1997

XXIII Meeting of the Latin American Council of SELA ( Latin American Economic System), Port-of-Spain

44.

10-11 October, 1997

Meeting of the Special Committee on Budget and Administration of the Association of Caribbean States

45

9-11 December, 1997

IICA Seminar on Safeguarding Animal health in Trade in the Caribbean.

46

17 February, 1998

Meeting of the Association of Caribbean States Secretariat with Heads of the Diplomatic Missions in Port-of Spain.

47

23-24 March, 1998

Special meeting of Ministers of the Caribbean Forum (Cariforum) of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP) under the 1st financial protocol of the Lome IV Convention

48

16-23 April, 1998

Annual meeting of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Surinam.

49

23-25 September, 1998

Second Joint meeting of the Special Committees for the Protection and Preservation of the Environment, the Caribbean Sea and Natural Resources, ACS Secretariat, Port-of Spain

50

14-15 October 1998

VII Meeting of the Special Committee on Budget and Administration of the Association of Caribbean States, ACS Secretariat, Port-of-Spain.

51

26 October, 1998

Eighth Meeting of Ministers of the Caribbean Forum (Cariforum) of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, Port-of-Spain

52

31 October, 1998

Meeting of the Working Group on Environmental Strategy of the Association of Caribbean States, Port-of-Spain

53

12-13 November, 1998

Meeting of the Executive Board of the ACS Special Committee on Science, Technology, Health, Education and Culture, Port-of-Spain

54

13 December, 1998

Meeting of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action, Port-of-Spain

55

11 February, 1999

Visit of the President of the Ministerial Council to the Secretariat of the Association of Caribbean States, Port-of-Spain

56

22-23 February, 1999

First Preparatory Meeting of the Association of Caribbean States for the Second Summit of Heads of State and/or Governments of the ACS. Port-of-Spain

57

11-12 March, 1999

V Meeting of the Special Committee on Trade Development and External Economic Relations of the Association of Caribbean States, Port-of-Spain

58

29-30 June, 1999

Eighth Meeting of the ACS Special Committee on Budget and Administration, Port-of Spain.

59

19-20 July, 1999

Meeting of the Working group on the Environment and Natural Resources of the Association of Caribbean States. Port-of-Spain

60

22-23 July. 1999

Third Intersessional meeting of the Association of Caribbean States, Hilton Hotel, Port-of-Spain.

61

7-9 September, 1999

Ninth Meeting of the ACS Special Committee on Budget and Administration, Port-of-Spain.

62

27-28 September, 1999

Second Meeting of Chief Executive Officers of Regional Airlines and Air Transport Authorities of the Countries, States and Territories of the Association of Caribbean States, Port-of-Spain

63

7-8 October,1999

VI Meeting of the ACS Special Committee on Trade Promotion and Facilitation, Port-of-Spain.

64

10-11 November, 1999

Meeting of Legal Experts of the Association of Caribbean States to revise the Draft Protocol on Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities, Port-of-Spain.

65

16-17 November.1999

Third Meeting of the ACS Special Committee on Transport, Oranjestad, Aruba.

66

3-4 December, 1999

Meeting of Caribnet, The network of Caribbean Arts Presenters, Kapok Hotel, Port-of-Spain

67

19-21 January, 2001

Meeting of the Ad-Hoc Working group for the Development of the Preferential Tariff of the Caribbean, Association of Caribbean States, Port-of-Spain.

68

23 February, 2001

ACS/DOMs Meeting on the Interreg  III Caribbean Programme, Association of Caribbean States, Port-of-Spain

69

8-9 March, 2001

Meeting of the Technical Drafting Group of the Integrated Information System for the Greater Caribbean, Association of Caribbean States, Port-of Spain.

70

11 March, 2001

Meeting of the Executive Boards of the Special Committees on Trade, Transport, Sustainable Tourism and Natural Disasters, Association of Caribbean States, Port-of-Spain.

71

2-3 April, 2001

2nd Meeting of Legal Experts for the Establishment of the Sustainable Tourism Zone of the Caribbean, Association of Caribbean States, Port-of-Spain.

72

2-3 May, 2001

Meeting of Financial Officers and DRAO’s and Directors and Financial Officers of PMU’s and Implementing Agencies to discuss Implementation of a structured Financial Reporting System for Projects under the Caribbean Regional Indicative Programme (CRIP), Cascadia Hotel, Trinidad and Tobago.