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

xii and charts and helping to choose photographs. They all endured the hieroglyphics and symbols and extensive redrafting with great patience and devotion to duty and I am grateful to them. As I became more competent with word-processing, I took over the rewriting and editing. I am grateful to Governor Cleviston Haynes for his support in publishing the history of the Bank. During the past two years, I have received invaluable assistance from a team assembled by the Bank’s Communications Unit. Under the leadership of Novaline Brewster, it included Laurie Blackman, Angela Smith-Callender, Yvonne Parris, Matthew Williams-Rawlins and Dr. Henderson Carter, Senior Lecturer in History at the UWI, Cave Hill. The team ensured that I did not stray too far away from the schedule, provided comments and interfaced with the printer, graphic artist and commentators. Dr. Carter read the drafts and helped in keeping the focus on a narrative that would be attractive to a general audience; Laurie Blackman concentrated on sourcing and inserting photographs. The final drafts benefitted from Andy Taitt’s painstaking and comprehensive editing. Assistance was also provided by the Bank’s Chief of Information Services, Angela Skeete. I must also thank my wife Dolores, who is a historian. She was enthusiastic from the start and was always encouraging me to try and bring some closure to the project. Finally, I am dedicating this book to all the men and women who have worked so diligently since 1972 to make the Central Bank of Barbados into a centre of excellence and what a former prime minister once described as “The Barbadian institution of the 20th Century”. Harold Codrington