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Cjruckus wrote:I made his birthday thread.
It was deleted... Reason being "We time Now"
Thanks alltrac.
Cjruckus wrote:I made his birthday thread.
It was deleted... Reason being "We time Now"
Thanks alltrac.
Cjruckus wrote:I made his birthday thread.
It was deleted... Reason being "We time Now"
Thanks alltrac.
BIOGRAPHY AND CURRICULUM VITAE OF WINSTON DOOKERAN
An outline of his notable achievements and positions.
WINSTON DOOKERAN
RESUME
Winston Dookeran is the political leader of the CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE (COP) which was launched in Trinidad and Tobago in September 2006. The CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE is a political party committed to restoring integrity to the political system in Trinidad and Tobago and building a strong and united country.
Winston Dookeran assumed leadership of the CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE after giving up his position as political leader of the United National Congress (UNC) which he had held since October 2005.
A former Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Winston Dookeran served on several occasions as Acting Prime Minister of the twin-island republic.
During the attempted coup in 1990, when Prime Minister Arthur Robinson and several of his ministers were held hostage, Winston Dookeran rose to the challenge and was successful in restoring law and order in the country.
Winston Dookeran is an economist with a wide range of experience as an academic and as a practitioner in the Caribbean and International Institutions. He is a leading politician in Trinidad and Tobago.
DEGREES AWARDED
1991: Doctor of Laws Honorary Degree
(honoris causa)
University of Manitoba, Canada. Awarded for distinguished public service.
1969: MSc Economics
London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London, U.K.
1966: BA (Hons) Economics and Mathematics
University of Manitoba, Canada.
KEY CAREER POSITIONS
* Political Leader, Congress of the People. (2006-Present)
A Political Party in Trinidad and Tobago (www.congresstnt.com)
* Visiting Scholar, Weather Center for International Affairs WCFIA, Harvard University. (2002-3)
He was a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affair, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
* Fellow, WCFIA, Harvard University. (1993-94)
Former Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
* Senior Economist at the United Nations.(1996-97)
Previously held the post of Senior Economist at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC).
* Chairman of Negotiating Committee on Investment, FTAA.
Participated in many international negotiations, which included the 2000 - 2001 negotiating cycle of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in which he was Chairman of the Negotiating Committee on Investment that comprised all members of the FTAA.
* Acting Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
Acted as Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, on several occasions during the period 1988-91
* Planning and Mobilization Minister, Trinidad and Tobago.
Served as Planning and Mobilization Minister in the Government of Trinidad and Tobago during the year 1986-91
* Governor of the Central Bank, Trinidad and Tobago.
Served as Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago from July 1997 to July 2002. (www.central-bank.org.tt)
* Lecturer: University of the West Indies.
During the period 1971-86 he was a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, where he taught a wide range of courses, including Mathematical Economics, International Economic Relations and Advanced Macroeconomic Theory in the post graduate programme.
* Alternate Governor for Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean Development Bank during the period 2002 - 1997
* Alternate Governor for Trinidad and Tobago, International Monetary Fund during the period 2002 - 1997
* Member, Board of the Leadership Council for Inter-American Summitry during the period 2000-2003.
PUBLICATIONS
A LISTING OF PUBLICATIONS AUTHORED/EDITED BY WINSTON DOOKERAN
BOOKS
* Uncertainty, Stability and Challenges: Economic and Monetary Policy Small State Perspective by Winston Dookeran published by LEXICON TRINIDAD LTD., 2006
* Money Matters: Emerging Challenges for Small States by Winston Dookeran Distinguished Lecture Series, Institute of International Relations, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 2000.
* The Caribbean Quest: Directions for Structural Reforms in a Global Economy: edited by Winston Dookeran and Ramesh Ramsaran published by Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies the Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University, 1998
* Choices and Change : Reflections on the Caribbean edited by Winston Dookeran published by the Inter- American Development Bank, 1996
* East Indians in the Caribbean: Colonialism and the Struggle for Identity edited by Winston Dookeran and Bridget Brereton published by Kraus International Publications, London, England, 1982
ARTICLES
* Foreign Direct Investment: Policy issues and recommendations for Caribbean Development : Article published in “No island is an island” : The Impact of globalization on the Commonwealth Caribbean” Gordon Baker (editor), published by Brookings Institution, 2007
* “World Economic Slowdown: What it means for Economic Policy in Trinidad and Tobago”: Article published in 'The Caribbean in the International Arena: The Implications of Global Instability and Conflict'. Ramesh Ramsaran (editor), published by LEXICON TRINIDAD LTD., 2003.
* “The Financial Liberalization Agenda: Performance and Prospects” published in Caribbean Survival and the Global Challenge, Ramesh Ramsaran ed., Ian Randle Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica, forthcoming, 2002.
* “Small States adapting to a Transforming Global Economy” Policy Transfer, New Public Management and Globalization, Dr. Ann Marie Bissessar (editor), University Press of America, Inc., 2002.
* “New Beginnings, New Divides – A New Diplomacy Needed” Informativo, publication of LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programmes for the Americas, am affiliate of Harvard University, Spring/Summer 2001.
* “The Commonwealth Caribbean Contemplates the Rock and the Hard Place” Published in Americas Insights, on-line publication of the Institute of the Americas, http://www.iamericas.org/publications, October 2000
* “A New Multilateralism: Agenda Issues for Small States” in Imagining Tomorrow, Rethinking the Global Challenge, United Nations Publication edited by Kamalesh Sharma, August 2000.
* “Preferential Trade Agreements in the Caribbean: Issues and Approaches” in Trade Liberalisation in the Western Hemisphere, IDB/ECLAC, Washington, 1995.
* “Caribbean Integration: An Agenda for Open Regionalism” The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, University of London, July 1994.
* “The Pension Fund System in Trinidad and Tobago”
Sistema de Pensiones en America Latina y el Caribe, CEPAL, Santiago, Chile, 1994.
* “The New Regionalism: Caribbean – Canada Trade Agenda” (co-author with Miriam L. Campanella), Identities, State and Markets: Looking at Social Change in Latin America edited by Jose Havet, published by Canadian Scholars’ Press, Inc., 1999.
* “NAFTA, the EC and the Uruguay Round: Does the Caribbean Have a Place in the New Economic Order”
The Round Table, The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, University of London, April 1993.
* “The Borrowing Trap: What the Caribbean Needs to Enter a New Era of Hope” Caribbean Affairs, Col. 1, No. 3, 1988.
* “Income Distribution in Trinidad and Tobago 1956 –76, The Review of Income and Wealth” in Journal of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, New Haven, USA. June 1981.
* “Towards a Macro Dynamic Theory for Transportation Planning in the Caribbean” International Journal of Transport Economics, Rome, Italy, June 1981.
* “The Teaching of Economics at St. Augustine – A Comment” Social and Economic Studies, The Institute of Social and Economic Research, The University of the West Indies, June 1981.
* “Economic Issues Facing the Caribbean Working Class” in Central Statistical Office Research Papers (Trinidad and Tobago), 1980.
Winston Dookeran has contributed articles and interviews to numerous professional journals including the Economist, Latin Finance and has made several speeches in and out of Parliament on the Politics of Economic Change in a small state perspective.
brickman wrote:Steups.....after 8 yrs of BS you think anybody is suprised by this?
RASC wrote:I have the 2000-2009 budgets right in front of me.
This will be the first time in a decade we'll be running a deficit...aka we're going to be spending more money than we'll be able to generate.
Views?
Terran wrote:RASC neglect his own thread... just like the proprietor of the church at the Heights of Guanapo.
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Terran wrote:RASC neglect his own thread... just like the proprietor of the church at the Heights of Guanapo.
When sheit hit the fan, eh.
Poor fella must be getting a bad taste in his mouth all now from his finger licking doubles.
RASC wrote:Expect 2010 budget deficit
Finance Minister Winston Dookeran says he expects a deficit in the upcoming 2010-2011 budget, the date of which he’s keeping close to his chest. “I think there will be (a deficit)... but not as large as we first anticipated.” Last year’s budget, Dookeran said, was approximately $45 billion. Last year’s deficit was $7.7 billion. “I am hoping we could at least get there as well,” was Dookeran’s response when probed about this year’s budget package. “We are still working on it. We will explain everything when the budget is read.”
When was the last time we had a deficit budget people? Not entirely sure...Anyone?
[X]~Outlaw wrote:RASC wrote:Expect 2010 budget deficit
Finance Minister Winston Dookeran says he expects a deficit in the upcoming 2010-2011 budget, the date of which he’s keeping close to his chest. “I think there will be (a deficit)... but not as large as we first anticipated.” Last year’s budget, Dookeran said, was approximately $45 billion. Last year’s deficit was $7.7 billion. “I am hoping we could at least get there as well,” was Dookeran’s response when probed about this year’s budget package. “We are still working on it. We will explain everything when the budget is read.”
When was the last time we had a deficit budget people? Not entirely sure...Anyone?
RASC wrote:noobie wrote:I don't understand how stupid you have to be to attempt to paint the coming budget as an indictment against the present Government.
Clearly the status of the economy as of now is completely based upon the policies of the previous government. So if we are in a deficit situation NOW it is because of the PNM.
In my view any 85 IQ moron can reach that conclusion.
The excuses keep on coming. Do you plan to use that for the remaining 5 years?
The gov't is running a deficit due to the fact that they have not created any avenues for income generation nor diversification of the account either.
No Smelter
No Property Tax
Petrotrin is currently in a state of Stagnation
Couple this with the gov'ts extremely lofty plans and spiraling out of control inflation...
Those are the major reasons why they plan to run a deficit. Not the PNM...this is road map for the next yearThese are their projections.
Is Manning Fault , Is Manning fault...okay, Manning is NOT in power, what are you doing to fix the issue? When Obama got elected his situation was 100times worse than it is in T&T both in size and depth, but guess what Democrats never sat around all day pointing fingers, they got to work.
Bezman wrote:i think RASClat get hold in them Glenco/west moorings robbery or something
I hope he ok
Whether deficit financing is appropriate or not for the 2010/2011 fiscal package, Finance Minister, Winston Dookeran has “no choice”, said Ram Ramesh, Principal, Advisory at Accounting firm, KPMG. Ramesh outlined his predictions and gave his comments on the economy in an interview with the Guardian yesterday.
He said the economy has not regained full capacity since the downturn in 2008/2009, therefore Dookeran had no alternative, but to seek deficit financing.
and also coming after a period where the previous government spent quite a bit, in what can be considered as non-productive investments,” he said.
He also said the state of the economy makes it “difficult” for any finance minister to find resources needed to boost the economy.
Though the challenges are numerous, Ramesh said he is looking forward to the budget presentation since Dookeran’s experience range from experience in the financial sector as former Central Bank governor and academics through teaching and “it will be interesting to see a new standard he will set.”
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