In November 1995 he delivered an address and presented a paper on "The Sugar Industries of the English-Speaking Caribbean" to the International Sugar Organization in London.
He represented Guyana and CARICOM on innumerable occasions at international conferences and forums on the sugar industry.Īt the regional level he was involved with the Sugar Association of the Caribbean as Chairman of Marketing from 1990, then CEO from 1999 until retiring in 2007. When Bookers was nationalised in 1976 he remained with the Guyana Sugar Corporation where he held the post of Director of Marketing and Administration from 1976 until retirement in 1999. In 1955 he went to the then British Guiana with the Booker Group, working first as secretary of the Bookers BG Group Committee, then secretary of Bookers Sugar Estates, where he rose to be Administrative Director. He was elected President of the Cambridge University West Indian Society. He attended Clare College, Cambridge University (1951–55), where he obtained a BA Honours Degree in History and later received his MA. He received his secondary education at Queen's Royal College (1942–51) in Port of Spain, where he obtained distinctions in History and English in the Higher School Certificate. He has four sisters – Heather Murray, Gillian Howie, Robin McDonald and Monica Purkis – and one brother, Archie McDonald. His uncle was Air Marshall Sir Arthur McDonald of Royal Air Force. Kitts and whose parents were born in Antigua), was Agricultural Director of Gordon Grant Limited. Ian McDonald was born on 18 April 1933, in St Augustine, Trinidad, where his mother, Thelma McDonald ( née Seheult), and her parents were born and where his father, John Archie McDonald (who was born in St.
His only novel, The Humming-Bird Tree, first published in 1969, is considered a classic of Caribbean literature. Ian McDonald (born 18 April 1933) is a Caribbean-born poet and writer who describes himself as " Antiguan by ancestry, Trinidadian by birth, Guyanese by adoption, and West Indian by conviction." His ancestry on his father's side is Antiguan and Kittitian, and Trinidadian on his mother’s side.
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