Sixty Years of Independence: Achievements, Challenges and the Road Ahead for Trinidad and Tobago - Softcover

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Bhoendradatt Tewarie is the former pro vice-chancellor for Planning and Development and former principal at The University of the West Indies and founding director of the Institute of Critical Thinking.

Roger Hosein is professor in the Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. He is also the coordinator of the Trade and Economic Development Unit (TEDU). Hosein is the author or contributor of several books, including Trade and Development Issues in CARICOM: Key Considerations for Navigating Development.

Rebecca Gookool-Bosland is former lecturer in the Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies. She is coauthor of several books, including Trade and Development Issues in CARICOM: Key Considerations for Navigating Development.

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Foreword

As chancellor of The University of the West Indies, which is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this year, it gives me great pleasure to write this foreword for a book that reflects on sixty years of independence in the life of the nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago.

The editors of this book have given much to The University of the West Indies as, indeed, the University has contributed to their life and personal development. Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie was a former principal of the St Augustine Campus of our regional university and pro vice-chancellor for Planning and Development. Professor Roger Hosein has distinguished himself as an economist in the region and now heads the Trade and Development Unit. Dr Rebecca Gookool-Bosland recently graduated from UWI with a PhD in economics and now works for a small microfinance company in the southwest peninsula of Trinidad. All of the authors of chapters, either graduated from UWI at some level, taught there or are teaching and researching there now. It is with a sense of pride, therefore, that I write this foreword to Sixty Years of Independence: Achievements, Challenges and the Road Ahead for Trinidad and Tobago. It is an appropriate point at which to reflect, to assess and to recalibrate, as may be required.