Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are indebted to the following people and institutions for their invaluable assistance with

compiling material and accessing important resources critical to completing this book:

• Dr Derrick McKoy, Dean, Faculty of Law, UWI Mona Jamaica;

• Mr Alvin McIntosh, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Social Security,

Jamaica;

• The Legal Division of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Jamaica;

• Mr Maurice Bailey, Director of Legal Reform, Jamaica;

• Dr Christopher Malcolm, Attorney General, British Virgin Islands;

• Mr Phillip Pilgrim, former President, Antigua and Barbuda Industrial Court;

• Mr Noel Inniss, Registrar, Trinidad and Tobago Industrial Court;

• The Librarians and staff of the UWI Mona Law Library, UWI Cave Hill Law Library,

the Norman Manley Law School Library, and the Trinidad and Tobago Industrial Court

Library; and

•O ur Research Assistants Messrs Jason Haynes and Ashford Meikle.

We are grateful to all the Governments in the region who gave their kind permission for the

reproduction of extracts of their respective legislations.

Finally, we offer our heartfelt thanks to our families – Paul, Timothy and Nathan Roper; Lucas,

Theo and Max Corthésy – for enduring our absences throughout the process and their

unwavering love and support. We especially give thanks to God for providing us with the

insight and the strength necessary to complete this book.