(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF), Ambassador Lorne McDonnough, announced today three recent appointments to the CDF’s senior management team.
The CDF has appointed Mr. Arden Warner as its Legal Counsel and Secretary to Board. Mr. Warner, a national of Trinidad and Tobago, is a graduate of UWI and the University of London and was admitted to Gray’s Inn in 1989 and the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago in 1991. Mr. Warner has worked in Trinidad and Tobago, 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.
Dr. Deryck Brown, a national of Trinidad and Tobago, joins the CDF as Director of the Regional Development Division. Dr. Brown is an experienced development practitioner and comes to CDF from the Commonwealth Secretariat where he served for the last 3 years as Head of the Caribbean and Mediterranean Section of the Governance and Institutional Division. Previously, Dr. Brown served at the Caribbean Regional Negotiating 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.
Mr. St. Bernard Sebastian, a national of Dominica, has been appointed Director of the Structural and Cohesion Division. Mr. Sebastian brings considerable management experience in banking and finance. Formerly the CEO of The Eastern Caribbean Home Mortgage Bank, Mr. Sebastian played an instrumental role in transforming a financial services project into a formidable corporation in the OECS. Mr. 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, Mr. Sebastian holds the professional accreditation as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in the United Kingdom.
