Owen James

Owen Everard James is a graduate of the Mico Teachers' College (now the Mico University College) in Jamaica and an honors graduate of Howard University in the United States. He also holds a diploma in Production Management from the Institute for Advanced Technical and Vocational Training in Italy. Owen has been a teacher, civil servant, banker and restaurateur and worked for nearly thirty years as a senior manufacturing executive with a Fortune 500 American multi-national corporation. He has lived and worked in the Caribbean, Canada, The United States and East and Southern Africa. His last assignment was as Regional Manufacturing Director, Southern Africa. The writer is retired and resides in Florida. His books include "Jamaican by Birth American by Choice", "Brackets" "Sufferers' Manifesto"; "Pebbles & Pearls", and "Our Story".