ABC islands

Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao: The Netherlands Antilles Leeward Islands

A-G

Attorney-General

b&w

black and white, eg, of photographs or illustrations

BG

British Guiana

biblio

contains a bibliography

BIMAP

Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity

BIPIA

Bustamante Institute of Public and International Affairs

BISRA

Belize Institute for Social Research and Action

BVI

British Virgin Islands

BWI

British West Indies

BWICSCBS

BWI Central Sugar Cane Breeding Station

BWU

Barbados Workers Union

C

See Cmd below

ca

circa, about

CA

Central America

CADEC

Christian Action for Development in the Caribbean

CAFFE

Citizens Action for Free and Fair Elections (of Jamaica)

Caricom

Caribbean Community

CARIFTA

Caribbean Free Trade Association

CARIMAC

Caribbean Institute of Mass Communication

CARIPEDA

Caribbean People's Development Agency

CARDI

Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute

CAST

College of Arts, Science and Technology (of Mona, Jamaica)

CBI

The Caribbean Basin Initiative

CCA

Caribbean Conservation Association

CCAA

Caribbean/Central American Action

CCC

Caribbean Conference of Churches

CCL

Caribbean Congress of Labour

Cd

See Cmd below

CD

Includes a compact disk

CDB

Caribbean Development Bank

CDCC

Caribbean Development and Co-operation Committee

CED

Centre for Environment and Development, Mona

CEP

Caribbean Environment Programme

CEPAL

Economic Commission for Latin America

CERIS

Caribbean Educational Research Information Service

CFM

Caribbean Finance & Management (at Mona, UWI)

CFNI

Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute

CFPA

Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation

CGS

Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency (of the USA)

CICRED

Committee for the International Coordination of Research in Demography (of Paris, France)

CIDA

Canadian International Development Agency

C-J

Chief-Justice

CLADES

Latin American Center for Economic and Social Documentation

Cmd

Command Paper, issued in the following 4 series:

C:1-9550 (1870-99)

Cd: 1-9239 (1900-18)

Cmd: 1-9889 (1918-56)

Cmnd: 1-     (1956-  )

col

coloured, eg, of photographs or illustrations

CNIRD

Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development

CPDC

Caribbean Policy Development Centre

CPI

Commonwealth Publishers International Ltd

CRESALC

Regional Committee on Family Life and Sex Education for Latin America and the Caribbean

CRP

Census Research Programme (UWI)

CTRC

Caribbean Tourism Research Centre

CTRDC

Caribbean Tourism Research and Development Centre

CXC

Caribbean Examinations Council

DAEFM

Dep't of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management (UWI)

[date?]

[date of publication is unknown]

dj

comes with a dust jacket

DLP

Democratic Labour Party (Barbados)

DR

Dominican Republic

DWI

Danish West Indies

ECCA

East Caribbean Currency Authority

ECCM

East Caribbean Common Market

ECLAC

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

ECNAMP

Eastern Caribbean Natural Area Management Program

ed

edited by

ed

edition

EPICA

Ecumenical Program for Interamerican Communication and Action

facs ed

facsimile edition

FAO

Food and Agricultural Organization (of the UN)

FPA

Family Planning Association

frontis

frontispiece

FWI

French West Indies

GATT

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GIS

Government Information Service

hb

hardback

HMSO

Her Majesty's Stationery Office (of the UK)

IBRD

International Bank of Reconstruction and Development

ICLARM

International Center for Living Aquatic Resource Management

ICS

Institute of Caribbean Studies (of UWI, or of U of Puerto Rico)

ICTA

Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture

IDA

Imperial Department of Agriculture

IDB

Inter-American Development Bank

IDRC

International Development Research Centre (of Ottawa)

IDS

Institute of Development Studies

IICA

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

ills

illustrations

imp

impression

ILO

International Labour Organization

IOC

Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission (of UNEP, UNESCO)

IOJ

Institute of Jamaica

IPPF

International Planned Parenthood Federation

IRDP

Integrated Rural Development Project

IRF

Island Resources Foundation (of St Thomas, USVI)

ISER

Institute of Social and Economic Research (of UWI)

ISHI

Institute for the Study of Human Issues

ISI

International Statistical Institute

ISNAR

International Service for National Agricultural Research, the Hague

JAMAL

Jamaica Movement for the Advancement of Literacy

JAS

Jamaica Agricultural Society

JBI

Jamaica Bauxite Institute

JIM

Jamaica Institute of Management

JRGS

Journal of the Royal Geographical Society

LA

Latin America

LAB

Latin America Bureau

[London?]

Believed to have been published in London

McAl

Ansa McAl Psychological Research Centre (of Trinidad)

MOD

Ministry of Overseas Development (of the UK)

NA

Netherlands Antilles

NAR

National Alliance for Reconstruction (Trinidad political party)

NCCI

National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants

[nd]

no date of publication

[np]

not paginated, pages unnumbered or variously paginated

OAS

Organization of America States

obs

obsolete, no longer used

ODA

Overseas Development Administration (of the UK)

OECD

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OECS

Organization of Eastern Caribbean States

OWTU

Oilfield Workers' Trade Union (of Trinidad)

P

Press

PAHO

Pan American Health Organization

pamph

pamphlet

pb

Paperback

[place?]

[place of publication is unknown]

PLP

Progressive Liberal Party (of the Bahamas)

PM

Prime Minister

PNC

People's National Congress (of Guyana)

PNM

People's National Movement (of Trinidad)

PNP

People's National Party (of Jamaica)

Pop Ref

Population Reference Bureau (of Washington, DC)

PPP

People's Progressive Party (of Guyana)

PR

Puerto Rico

PREALC

Programa Regional del Empleo para America Latina y el Caribe - Regional Employment Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean

PRO

Public Records Office (of the UK)

PS

Permanent Secretary

PUP

People's United Party (of Belize)

RCS

Royal Commonwealth Society

rep

reprint

rev

revised

RGS

Royal Geographical Society

RIIES

Research Institute on Immigration & Ethnic Studies (Smithsonian Inst)

RILA

Royal Institute of Linguistics & Anthropology (of Amsterdam)

RN

British Royal Navy

SA

South America

SCS

School of Continuing Studies (of UWI)

SDUK

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

(sl)

sine loce, no place of publication given

(sn)

sine nomine, no name of publisher given

SPEAR

Society for Promotion of Education and Research (of Belize)

SPG

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

T&T

Trinidad and Tobago

TCI

Turks and Caicos Islands

U

University

UCL

University College, London

UCWI

University College of the West Indies

UG

University of Guyana

UNCTAD

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme

UNFPA

United Nations Fund for Population Activities

UNICA

Association of Caribbean Universities and Research Institutes

UNIDO

United Nations Industrial Development Organization

UP

University Press

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

USVI

United States Virgin Islands

UWI

University of the West Indies

WAND

Women and Development Studies Project

WHO

World Health Organization

WI

West Indies/West Indian

WW I

World War I

WW II

World War II