Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has extended his condolences to the family and friends of the late Sir Dwight Venner, former governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), saying that the entire region has lost a great son of the soil.
Sir Dwight died in St. Lucia on Thursday night.
Skerrit said that Sir Dwight was a man who played a tremendous role during his governance and who believed in the integration of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
“What we remember too is his strong contribution to the Monetary Union,” he said on state-owned DBS Radio on Friday. “A very diligent person, very intelligent, very focused on the issues and solutions to the challenges to which we have been confronted over the years. I think in large measures, the stability of the Monetary Union, the currency, we owe it in great measure to the guidance and advice which we received over the years from Dwight Venner.”
Skerrit highlighted how Sir Dwight brought a higher level of respect to the Caribbean from the International community saying that Venner was “very strong on these situations and others,” when speaking with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on topics relative to the Caribbean.
He said that Sir Dwight was a reliable person not only for financial or monetary matters but on other aspects of governance on both a national and regional level.
“He was an encyclopedia of ideas and knowledge,” he said.
Sir K Dwight Venner served as Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, from December 1989 to November 2015. Preceding that position, he served as Director of Finance and Planning in the Government of St. Lucia during the period of November 1981 to November 1989.
He was an Economist by training and attended 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 at the Institute from 1974 to 1981.
May his soul rest in peace!
Another of our Caribbean stalwart in the person of Sir Dwight Venner gone, but never will be forgotten…..
R.I.P.
Condolencies to his family, Sir venner didnot live to enjoy his retirement, sad
The pensionable age in St. Lucia is 65.
This man died at the young age of 70.
So after paying SSC all his life (and quite a lot of it I guess), he had only 5 years to enjoy it. What a rip off!
So what did Dwight achieve in his life?
Well, he successfully sold out the Caribbean countries to the Rothschild’s central bank system which introduced fiat currency and bank controlling the economies of its nation state members, though 100% privately foreign-owned.
What a legacy
A formidable Caribbean icon in the ranks of Professor Rex Nettleford. He has shaped the economic landscape of the Eastern Caribbean States. Always an honor to listen to Sir Venner’s speeches. I offer sincere condolences to his family and the entire Caribbean Community. We have lost a great son of the region.
That skerrit should short his mouth you have run our country to the ground while you get reach that’s the truth
Short your mouth skerrit
Chups which Skerrit, like I interrested in anything he got to say
The likes of which we will never see again in the Caribbean. Rest well Sir Dwight Venner.