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

190 A Continuing Challenge for Africa and The African Diaspora in 1992; she dedicated her lecture to the memory of Sir Winston’s widow, who had recently died. Two lecturers came from Africa - Jonathan Frimpong-Ansah (1982) and Prof. Ali Mazrui (1991). Since the turn of the century, speakers have included Sir Courtney Blackman (2002), Professor Ian Wilmot, who cloned ‘Dolly’ the sheep (2003), Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Joseph Stiglitz (2007), former Secretary-General of Amnesty International, Irene Khan (2010), entrepreneur, Nicholas Brathwaite (2015) and Commonwealth Secretary- General, Dame Patricia Scotland (2017). The Schools Outreach Programme School children had started to visit the Bank during 1979 to hear presentations by senior and technical staff. Soon after Carl Moore was appointed public affairs officer, a survey of the Bank’s public was conducted and a long-term public affairs strategy developed. As a result of one of Moore’s initiatives, 60 fifth-formers from St. Leonard’s Girls’ School visited various departments in the Bank over a two-day period in April 1981. This interaction with the schools was formalised by the introduction of the Schools’ Outreach Programme, during which the Bank’s economists visited secondary schools and spoke to students about the workings of the Barbadian economy and the role and functions of the Bank. Presenters in the Schools Outreach Programme, Marion Williams (left) and Harold Codrington.