October 2018


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Paula Lucie-Smith
Paula Lucie-Smith is a national scholarship winner, teacher and author best known for her enormous contribution as founder of the Adult Literacy Tutors’ Association (ALTA). Starting with a small literacy class of 20 students in 1990, ALTA has developed into a multi-faceted programme that operates at more than 50 venues and has helped more than 11,000 students. Born and raised in Trinidad, Mrs Lucie-Smith recognised the growing problem of adult literacy and decided to offer a class. From this small beginning, ALTA was born. Mrs Lucie-Smith has been a consultant on many national committees such as the 2007 Ministry of Education National Reading Policy Committee. She has received the Hummingbird Gold National Award, the Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in Public and Civic Contributions, and the JB Fernandes Award for NGO Excellence in 2014.

Hubert Alexander Ingraham
The Right Honourable Hubert Ingraham has been a political force in the Bahamas for several decades. As Prime Minister, Mr Ingraham led the Bahamas through tumultuous periods in the global economy and is credited with allowing the Atlantis Paradise Island project to develop, making the Bahamas a major tourism destination. Mr Ingraham rose to power in the election of August 1992, where his Free National Movement (FNM) Party unseated the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) of Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, who had held power in the Bahamas since 1967. He served as Prime Minister from 1992 to 2002 and again from 2007 to 2012. Mr Ingraham is remembered for the disengagement of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company in the mid-1990s, and guiding the country through the economic recession.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Shivnarine Chanderpaul is a humble legend of West Indies cricket. Born in Guyana, this former West Indies captain is the first cricketer of Indo-Caribbean descent to play 100 tests for the WI and only the third international player to have a career of over two decades. Mr Chanderpaul has scored over 20,000 runs in international cricket and was awarded the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. In 2008, he was named ICC Player of the Year and Wisden Cricketer of the Year. In the 164 matches he played between 1994 and 2015, he scored 11,867 runs, coming second only to Brian Lara for West Indian runs. He has been in several crucial batting partnerships with fellow greats such as Brian Lara and Carl Hooper. In 2005 he became Captain of the West Indies team. Off the field, he has led many community projects. His influence as a skilled, focused and hardworking sportsman has extended to many cricket-playing nations.

Winston Bailey: The Mighty Shadow
Winston Bailey, known in the world of Caribbean music as the Mighty Shadow, is a creative calypso artist. With his rich voice, anti-hero/diabolical persona and unique performance style, Mr Bailey is a true musical innovator who has had a major influence on T&T music. Born in Belmont, Trinidad and raised in Les Coteaux, Tobago, Mr Bailey made his big splash in 1974, winning both first and second place in the Road March competition with “Bassman” and “I Come out to Play”. Over the years he has remained consistent, producing original, evocative, insightful and at times dark music in the calypso genre. His hits include “Tension”, “Feeling the Feeling,” “Poverty is Hell” and many more. In 2003 he received the Silver Hummingbird Medal.

Professor Dermot Patrick Kelleher
Professor Kelleher is a medical investigator who has successfully patented inventions in the areas of diagnostics, drugs and nano-fluidics. His research has been translated to clinical trials (Novartis) and through three spin-out companies of which he was a founder, including Opsona Therapeutics, Deerac and Cellix. He was a co-founder of the Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre which led to the creation of Molecular Medicine Ireland, a consortium of Irish medical schools created to drive molecular / precision medicine. Currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, Prof Kelleher is an Irishman born of a Trinidadian mother and an Irish father. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin having trained in gastroenterology. He lectured at Trinity College, Dublin, where he rose to become the Head of the Medical School. He has done highly influential medical research on a broad cross-section of medical ideas.