A Jamaican national and resident, Ms Claudette Richardson Pious is co-founder and executive director of Children First. This is a non-profit organisation, founded in 1997, dedicated to improving the lives of Jamaica’s street children. Ms Richardson Pious began her career as a drama teacher. After meeting a truant boy and hearing his story, she joined […]
A Guyanese national and resident, Ms Annette Arjoon has become synonymous with the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society. This is one of the first and most successful conservation NGOs established in Guyana. The agency’s main work has been concentrated in Shell Beach, a 100-mile ecosystem in the northwest coastal region. It encompasses mangrove forests, inland […]
Fifty-eight-year-old Barbadian Mr James Husbands leads the company considered to be the regional authority on solar water heaters. In fact, his company Solar Dynamics is considered a world leader in solar water heating technology. In 33 years, the company has done over 30,000 installations throughout the Caribbean, saving money for users but also reducing significantly […]
Fifty-two-year-old David Dabydeen is a Guyanese national. He is best known as the award-winning author of more than 24 books of poetry and fiction and academic studies of literature, history and public affairs. He has two other books forthcoming presently. Prof Dabydeen has been hailed as a colossus, a Titan. One person writing in the […]
