CHILL 28_ March_2024

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Exploring Strategies for Enhancing International Trade

Cindy Sadaphal , General Counsel and Compliance Manager, SAGICOR Bank who shared invaluable insights in outlining the path forward for Barbados. Delivering opening remarks at the event, Campus Principal Professor Clive Landis underscored the campus’s aim to build a mutually beneficial relationship with the international business and financial sector and pledged a desire to work with digital nomads. “We want to be part of the virtual work transition taking place worldwide, where mobile and successful business people can work from anywhere. I have no doubt that Barbados can leverage its unique attractions as a safe and desirable Panellists(from left) Vicki Marshall , Corporate Secretary and Head of Compliance and Governance, Canada Life Reinsurance (Barbados); Professor Don Marshall , Director of SALISES; Glenna Smith , Managing Director, Smith Compliance Consulting, listen on as Cindy Sadaphal , General Counsel and Compliance Manager, SAGICOR Bank makes her point.

N onetheless, the discussion, hosted by the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) last November, yielded critical awareness on the steps required to achieve the outlined goal. The event titled “Propelling Barbados’ International Business and Financial Sector” was moderated by Director of SALISES Professor Don Marshall and featured a distinguished panel of experts, including Vicki Marshall , Corporate Secretary and Head of Compliance and Governance, Canada Life Reinsurance (Barbados); Glenna Smith , Managing Director, Smith Compliance Consulting; and

Cave Hill took another rewarding step towards

strengthening its academy- industry relationship with the private sector when it hosted a roundtable discussion aimed at finding ways to push Barbados’s International Business and Financial Sector. The emerging consensus was that more work needs to be done if Barbados is to make greater gains in this sector.

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