Aug 31
Monograph of the Western Hemisphere Security Analysis Center, Florida International University, June 2011. Professor Griffith is a political scientist from the Caribbean and is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of York College, The City University of New York.
The re-emergence of Desie Bouterse as President of Suriname in 2010 reflects his political acumen in aggregating disparate political interests and in establishing a viable coalition government…. (but it) has generated anxiety in some places internationally. This study examines anxieties related to, (a) relations with Guyana, where there is an existing territorial dispute and a recently resolved maritime dispute, (b) illegal drug trafficking operations, and (c) foreign policy engagement with Venezuela….
Jan 04
The year 2010 saw significant strengthening of ties between Latin America and the two CARICOM countries on the continental mainland: the launch of Community of 32 Latin American and Caribbean States (CLACS) in February, the first Brazilian-CARICOM Summit in April, the UNASUR Summit in Guyana in November and the 40th MERCOSUR meeting in December attended by the Presidents of Guyana and Suriname; culiminating in the New Year’s Day 2011 inauguration of the President of Brazil Dilma Vana Rousseff, attended by Latin American Heads of State including the President of Suriname.
Sep 02
Declassified Colonial Office documents reveal the extent of British duplicity, American hypocrisy and the naivety of a militantly anti-colonial leader who nevertheless trusted in British justice; in bringing British Guiana to ‘Independence’ in 1966. This textbook lesson in imperial intrigue and machination should be required listening for every Caribbean student.
May 25
Presentation to Caribbean Diplomatic Training Programme for Mid-Career Diplomats, 
Georgetown, Guyana, 20 May 2009
I want to begin by congratulating the CARICOM Secretariat on the mounting of this Workshop. It is no secret that I place great store by the role of Caribbean diplomacy over nearly fifty years of engagement with the international community. Some of our most notable achievements have been in this field – at the United Nations, in the Non-aligned Movement, in the Commonwealth, in Brussels and in Geneva, in the ACP and at the OAS – and always on the right side of history! You are heirs to a great tradition. It will be your challenge to enhance it…
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Dec 07
Rector of the University of Havana, Ruben Zardoya, presents the Title of Doctor of Economic Sciences Honoris Causa of the University to Professor Girvan
Citation: University of Havana
Elogio: Dr Antonio Romero
Acceptance Speech: The Debt is Unpayable
‘The Cuban Revolution has been a source of inspiration on the ability of a small Caribbean country to chart its own course of social justice, economic transformation, and national independence by relying on the mobilisation of the entire population, on the will and energy of its people; and for its numerous actions of international solidarity…The debt to Cuba is unpayable…’
‘La Deuda es Impagable’ (Espanol)
Global Cooperation – A Look at the Future PowerPoint Presentation, Government of Cuba
Cuba marks Centennial of Independent Party of Color
Caricom Confers Highest Honour on Former Cuban President
Walter Rodney – Selected Quotes Nigel Westmaas
Jamaican Intellectual Bestowed Honoris Causa Degree in Havana Radio Rebelde
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YESCuba Bulletin No. 5 Bulletin of The Jamaican Youth and Elders in Solidarity With Cuba, January 2009
Cuba, Norman's Integration Papers
Caribbean, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, George Beckford, Guyana, Isaac Saney, Jamaica, Lloyd Best, Mervyn Claxton, Others, Walter Rodney
Feb 02
Good governance is inextricaly linked to development, but the Western insistence on imposing its own particular brand of ‘democracy’ on non-Western societies ignores the rich experience in other forms of governance in Asia and Africa, many of which were remarkably successful in fostering participation, consultation, accountability, gender equality, dispute settlement, and social peace. This resource could be used to address governance issues in fractured Caribbean societies such as Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica…
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Dec 31
” Making the Rules of the Game: Company-Country Agreements in the Bauxite Industry”, Social and Economic Studies, 20,4; December 1971; pp. 378-419
This paper is concerned with statutory and administrative law,, and written agreements, under which aluminium multinational firms secure access to needed raw materials in in bauxite producing countries. It seeks to show that by means of these agreements the companies institutionalise company-country relationships that are overwhelmingly to the benefit of the former.
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Bauxite, natural resources and MNCs
Alcan, Alcoa, aluminium, bauxite, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, international contracts, Jamaica, Kaiser Aluminum, multinational corporations, Reynolds Metals, Suriname, transnational corporations
