SELECTED REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCIES

2008              ILO Consultant – ‘Legal and Policy Initiatives to Strengthen the National Response to HIV – AIDS in the

World of Work’.

2007              Consultant and Lead Facilitator, to PANCAP, CRN +, UWI Symposium on HIV/ AIDS and Law, Ethics

and Human Rights, Trinidad.

2005                 Facilitator - Workshop for Public Servants in Montserrat on ‘Public Law Issues and                                               Employment’, December 4, 9, 2005.

2005                 Consultant to the Government of Dominica, ‘Public Service Law Reform in Dominica’.

2005                 Legal Expert ‘ HIV/AIDS in Employment’ Workshop for Media Personnel in Suriname.

2004                 Consultant to UNIFEM – ‘Labour Law and Gender Issues in the Caribbean – Update’.

2004                 Consultant to the Government of Dominica and World Bank – ‘Redundancy in the Public Service’.

2003                 Consultant to the Government of Canada – ‘Labour Law Study on Selected Caribbean Countries’.

2003                 Consultant to the Programme for the Promotion of Management-Labour Cooperation - which aims for

presentation to a global audience and follow up activities on the international and regional levels under the auspices of the ILO.

2002                 ILO Legal Consultant and Analyst - Eliminating Discrimination in Employment in the Caribbean - The

Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Also coordinated the activities of research assistants in the four countries.

2001                 UNDCP Legal Consultant- ‘Mutual Legal Assistance in the OECS’.                                                          

1999-2001         ILO Legal Consultant - ILO / St. Lucia Labour Law Reform Project - As well as substantive review of

existing laws and proposals for change, the task involved the drafting of the actual Labour Code.

1999- 2000        Legal Consultant to UNICEF - Juvenile Justice Reform in Barbados.

1999                 Presenter / Resource Person - UNDCP / UWI - Caribbean Regional Drug Control Project on topics

including Money Laundering and Mutual Legal Assistance, Law on Drugs and relevant Constitutional Issues on Drug Control.

1998- 99            Legal Consultant to UNIFEM/ ILO – ‘Women’s Rights in the Workplace’.                          

1998                 Legal Consultant to UNICEF and the Government of Dominica  - ‘The Conformity of Dominica Law to

the UNICEF Convention’.

1997-8              Legal Consultant - Inter-American Development Bank - Regional Research Network Project - Labour

Market Regulation and Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean (with economist  Professor Andrew Downes).

1994                 Legal Consultant (with economist Professor Andrew Downes, CDB/ U.W.I.) to World Bank - Study of

Portability of Severance Pay in Barbados; Report - 114 pages.

1993                 Legal Consultant - Law and Practice on Drug Related Offences in the Commonwealth Caribbean -

United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP); Report - 260 pages.

1992                 Regional Consultant - CARICOM Labour Law Harmonisation Project leading to formulation of

CARICOM Model Labour Laws and several country law reform exercises.

1992                 Co-ordinator - UNICEF Ratification on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and Status of

Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean.

1991                 Legal Consultant to UNICEF - The Laws of Antigua and Barbuda and the UNICEF Convention.

1991                 Legal Consultant to UNICEF - The Laws of St. Lucia and the UNICEF Convention.