Both Sides of The Coin: The Story of The Central Bank of Barbados 1972-2017

Chapter 5: Some Notable Developments 189 Lamming and Kamau Brathwaite in 1999 and in the following year Professor Rex Nettleford, Vice-Chancellor of the UWI, spoke on The Caribbean, the African Diaspora and the Third Millennium . Growing concerns about the environment influenced the Bank to choose several speakers who were experts in that area. The first was the 1996 lecturer, Canadian Maurice Strong, who in concluding his talk on Environmental Challenges to Developing States in the 21st Century said that Barbados had a great opportunity to be a role model for small island states. In the following year Barbadian Professor Oliver Headley exposed the weakness of a growth strategy that relied heavily on fossil fuels in his thought-provoking lecture entitled The Sun Will Still Shine When The Oil Runs Out . The environment was also the subject of the lectures by television presenter David Suzuki in 2004 and Jeremy Rifkin in 2009. The first woman to deliver the Lecture was American educator Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, who spoke on Education for Self-reliance and Self-respect: Presenters of the Sir Winston Scott Memorial Lecture. Top row, left to right: Dr. Ernst Schumacher (1976), Professor, Sir Kenneth Stuart (1983), Dr. DeLisle Worrell (1986) and Professor Kamau Brathwaite (1987). Bottom row, left to right: Dr. Niara Sudarkasa (1992), Professor Joseph Stiglitz (2007) and Dr. Nicholas Brathwaite (2015).