Former Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, Sir Dwight Venner, has passed away.
He died in St. Lucia on Thursday night.
Below is an autobiography of Sr. Dwight taken from the ECCB’s website.
The Honourable Sir K Dwight Venner served as Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, from December 1989 to November 2015.
Prior to that he served in the position of Director of Finance and Planning in the St Lucian Government between November 1981 and November 1989.
The Hon Sir Dwight is an Economist by training and was educated at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica where he obtained both a Bachelor of Science (BSc) and a Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Economics. He served as a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the West Indies and then as a Lecturer in Economics from 1974 to 1981.
He has written and published extensively in the areas of Monetary and International Economics, Central Banking, Public Finance, Economic Development, Political Economy and International Economic Relations.
Selected publications include Monetary Policy and a Stable EC Dollar, 1996; Surmounting the Barriers to Development, 1996; The Prospects for a Unified Caribbean in the New International Economic Order, 1996; Prospects and Policy Options for the ECCB Area, 1997; Economic Theory and Development Options For The Caribbean: The Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lectures 1996-2005, 2007.
Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network, and a member of the Commission for Growth and Development, World Bank. He is also Chairman of the OECS Economic Union Task Force Committee, and the UWI Open Campus Council.
The Hon Sir Dwight received the award of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1996 in St Lucia and was recognised as a Distinguished Graduate of the University of the West Indies on its 50th Anniversary in July 1998. In June 2001 he was awarded Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in St Vincent and the Grenadines for services to the financial sector. In October 2003, the Hon Sir Dwight was recipient of an honorary degree, the Doctor of Laws from the University of the West Indies. In December 2011, he was awarded the Saint Lucia Cross for distinguished and outstanding service of national importance to Saint Lucia.
His hobbies include cricket, racquet ball, netball, pistol shooting, hiking, jogging, music, reading, collecting paintings, crystals, miniature boats and coins, travel and photography.
The Hon Sir Dwight is married to Lynda Arnolde Winville Venner nee St Rose and they have seven children.
ECCB is a Rothschild’s bank . We will never get a gold standard
St.lucia and the Eastern Caribbean has lost a great man
Remember what Bastiat said, “There is the seen and the unseen”? We may look at the Dominican economy and conclude that relatively speaking we are very well off. But we are sitting on an active volcano that may erupt at anytime in economic cataclysm be-
cause the system is foundationally flawed.
What if we had never had an Eastern Caribbean Central Bank? What if from the begin-
ning this country had progressed under the same sound monetary system that the founding fathers of America established? We would certainly have tremendous prosperity, we would have no recessions, most people miss the system’s essential injustice that all central banks worldwide are owned by the Rothchilds.
if life was a thing money could buy the rich would live and the poor would die respect to the dead and his family
So sorry to learn of his death. I attended a meeting with him a couple years ago, and he was his usual self. He would often joke about the resemblance between himself and the US Ambassador to the Eastern Caribbean. Does anyone know if he was ill? I extend sympathies to his extended family.
Relatedly though, he never advertised that he received an Honorary Doctorate from UWI. Hardly has anyone heard of a Dr. K Dwight Venner. Very interesting.
RIP Sir Dwight.
He was my very good friend. Rest In Peace.
All he did was to hand over the economies of the Caribbean to the Rothchilds. The Caribbean Central bank’s shareholders are FOREIGN PRIVATE PERSONS!
If this is disputed, try to get them to tell you who their shareholders are and good luck with that!
He was a BRILLIANT Caribbean man!!!
RIP!!!!
What makes us “a great man” anyways! RIP Sir Venner
Truly a sad loss but such is the passage of life. I know my friend in the Northeast USA must be heartbroken. Sir Dwight called her his Dominican daughter. Condolences to his family and the people of St Lucia, the OECS by extension.
The loss of a great man! RIP Sir!
Monetary Policy and a Stable EC Dollar, Dwight is responsible for letting the OECS use debt instruments as currency. The ECCB is not making our economies stable, WE WANT A GOLD STANDARD!
RIP SIr Dwight
Delvin the thumb down meant they didn’t think that this is the right forum for you excellent insight.. What is your view on floating the US dollars in the OECS instead of paying to peg the EC to the US because the XCD is a defacto US$.