Floyd Morris

Floyd E. Morris has a Ph.D. in Government with special focus on Political Communication. He is the Director of the University of the West Indies Centre for Disability Studies and has been involved in several research studies relating to persons with disabilities and political communication. He is a veteran parliamentarian, having served in the Parliament of Jamaica for approximately 20 years. In 2018, he was appointed Special Rapporteur on Disability by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).



Floyd Morris is also blind. He developed glaucoma in 1983 and became totally blind in 1989. Since then, he has been a passionate advocate for persons with disabilities. Additionally, he is/has been friends with some of the individuals who are featured in the case studies. It was for this reason that secondary data sources were included, thus ensuring validity of the central arguments presented in this work.