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“This work, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on COVID-19 and the Caribbean , is not merely a compilation of research articles … it is a testament to our collective resilience in Caribbean society, drawing on instinctive solidarity in times of need and holistic approaches to address complex challenges,” Landis said. Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences Professor Troy Lorde shared similar sentiments, saying: “The two volumes are the product of an ambitious project by the editors to deliver authentic, indigenous, interdisciplinary Caribbean scholarship on the region’s experience with the COVID-19 pandemic.” M inister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology, Marsha Caddle hailed the publications as a “stunning academic memorial to the lives lost and transformed during the COVID years” . She noted that the pandemic provided an opportunity to strengthen social protections and social insurance and to provide more effective delivery. “When we look at the composition of our small businesses, our MSMEs [micro, small
From left: Dr. Natalie Greaves , Lecturer in Public Health; Dr. Sherma Roberts , Deputy Dean, Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Dr. Halimah DeShong , Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit; and Professor Dwayne Devonish , Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour
Dr. Sherma Roberts Deputy Dean - Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Programme Coordinator Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Hospitality Management Deputy Principal of the campus Professor Winston Moore lauded the work of the editors for offering a detailed, insightful account of the pandemic: “ … a pandemic which, in many instances, forced us as Caribbean people into a trying and sometimes painful evolutionary process that has resulted in us trying to navigate an ever-changing new normal,” he noted. u customer satisfaction in their enterprises. Some of these include the development of appropriate risk management strategies for MSMEs in the region,” Tannis said. are relevant to the modern Caribbean businessperson and provide a lens through which regional enterprises can be more responsive and agile to the changing operational environment. “Most importantly, from a private sector perspective, these volumes offer a number of recommendations which the regional private sector can implement to increase profitability and levels of Professor Dwayne Devonish presents Minister Marsha Caddle with Volumes 1 & 2 of the new publication.
and medium enterprises], we see that in many ways, the people who are principals of many of those businesses are also the people to whom we had to have first economic or socioeconomic response at the level of the household. “And so, we see that when we have a social and economic response that are conceived together, we have a far better reach and a far better understanding of what people need,” the former Minister of Economic Affairs and Investment said. President of the Barbados Private Sector Association , Trisha Tannis told the audience that the topics covered
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