Three Caribbean nationals were recently appointed to the senior management team of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF), the Chief Executive Officer Ambassador Lorne McDonnough announced yesterday.
The new appointees will fill the respective positions of Legal Counsel and Secretary to the Board, Director of the Regional Development Divi-sion, and Director of the Structural and Cohesion Division, according to a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen.
Trinidad and Tobago national Arden Warner has been appointed as the CDF’s Legal Counsel and Secretary to the Board. Warner is a graduate of the UWI and the University of London and was admitted to Gray’s Inn in 1989 and the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago in 1991.
He has worked in Trinidad and Tobago, the Cayman Islands as Crown Counsel; Turks and Caicos Islands as Senior Crown Counsel; and the British Virgin Islands as Principal Crown Counsel and Solicitor General, the release stated.
Another national of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Deryck Brown has joined the CDF as Director of the Regional Development Division. Dr. Brown is an experienced development practitioner, the release said, and comes to CDF from the Commonwealth Secretariat where he served for the last three years as Head of the Caribbean and Mediterranean Section of the Governance and Institutional Division.
Previously he served at the Caribbean Regional Negotiat-ing Machinery (CRNM) as the Director for Technical Cooperation and Partnerships and with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) as a Project Officer in the Technical Cooperation Unit.
Dr. Brown is a graduate of the UWI; the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands and the University of Manchester where he gained his doctorate in Development Policy and Management.
Meanwhile, St. Bernard Sebastian, a national of Dominica, has been appointed Director of the Structural and Cohesion Division, and he brings considerable management experience in banking and finance, the release said.
Formerly the CEO of the Eastern Caribbean Home Mortgage Bank, Sebastian played an instrumental role in transforming a financial services project into a formidable corporation in the OECS.
Sebastian has also served the public service of Dominica as Financial Secretary, Director of Finance and Planning and Director of Social Security.
In addition to post-graduate degrees in Economics and Finance, the release added, Sebastian holds professional accreditation as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in the United Kingdom.
