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Daurius Figueira

 

Conferments:

BA (Hons), M.Phil (Sociology) University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

 

Position:

Lecturer in Government and Criminology

 

Research Interests:

The Illicit Drug Trade, The Illicit Gun Trade and Human Trafficking in the Caribbean, The Nature of Organized Crime in the Caribbean. The Nature of Caribbean States, Organized Crime and the Caribbean states: The Nexus. Race, Politics and Power: The Nexus in the Caribbean. The Geo-politics of the Illicit trades in the Caribbean. The Geo-politics of LNG in Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago

 

Publications:

1. “A Spy in the Houses of Hate”
2. “Jihad in Trinidad and Tobago July 27th 1990”
3. “Simbhoonath Capildeo Father of Hindu Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago”
4. “Exiting a Racist Worldview a Journey through Marx, Said and Foucault to Liberation”
5. “The Al-Qaeda Discourse of the Greater Kufr”
6. “Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in the Caribbean the case of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana”
7. “Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in the Caribbean Volume 2 the case of Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela”
8. “Tubal Uriah Butler of Trinidad and Tobago Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana the road to Independence”
9. “The East Indian Problem of Trinidad and Tobago 1953-1961 Cheddi Jagan of Guyana 1950-1964” (forthcoming)
10. “The geo-politics of LNG in Trinidad and Venezuela1995-” (forthcoming)
11. “Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in the Caribbean Volume 3 the jump to West Africa (forthcoming)