Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, at the University of the West Indies, Mona, a member of the (American) Association of Black Sociologists, American Sociological Association, Caribbean Studies Association and Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ). He is a scholar of Black racial issues and labour studies and has presented more than 60 international and local conference papers in both English and Spanish. Locally, he has also done more than 200 keynote speeches, addresses and seminars.

An external collaborator with the International Labour Organization, this former Senior Industrial Relations Director in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, worked more than 18 years in the government service. For the ILO he has produced studies, on Regional Labour Standards, Contract Work and the baseline study on Flexible Working Hours, the first of its kind in the developing world. His expertise in labour matters has been sought by other Caribbean nations and the European Union. Most recently, he contributed to the Rule of Law Index of the World Justice Project.