Senior UWI lecturer and former PNM senator Dr Lester Henry passed away last night at his home from a heart attack. He celebrated his 61st birthday on Thursday 20 October. Henry, an economist, was recently appointed to the board of the NGC and attended a board meeting shortly before his …
Read More »Ignore the song and dance, West Indies’ professionalism led them to World Cup title
UWI senior economics lecturer and PNM senator Lester Henry explains why the West Indies’ 2016 Twenty20 World Cup success was a triumph of hard work and professionalism over happy-go-lucky cricket; and not the other way around: There is a saying, made popular by Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”, that if you spend …
Read More »Larry Houdini, Machel the false profit and a corporation in retreat
There is no sugar coating this. When your Finance Minister is afraid to answer questions on financial transparency and conflicts of interest from, of all people, Jack Warner, you know that you’re in way too deep. If Larry Howai thinks his reputation—or what remained of it after his $10 million …
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