Republic Bank strengthens BNB’s management

Republic Bank Limited as the majority shareholder of Barbados National Bank (BNB) has announced additions to the BNB Board of Directors following the completion of purchase of BNB by Republic Bank. Recently elected board members are bankers Ronald F deC. Harford, David Dulal-Whiteway and Robert Le Hunte, and from Barbados Peter Symmonds and Joseph Goddard. BNB’s Managing Director, Louis Greenidge also announced that Robert Le Hunte has been seconded to BNB from Republic Bank and has been appointed as Deputy Managing Director. Ronald Harford, Chairman and Managing Director of Republic Bank Limited, is now BNB’s Chairman of the Board. The other members of the Board are chartered accountants Anthony Hoyos and previous Chairman, Kenneth Hewitt, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, William Layne, Director of the National Insurance Board, Ian Carrington and Louis Greenidge.

ROBERT LE HUNTE
Le Hunte is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago and a graduate of the University of Man-chester where he secured his MBA.  He is also a graduate of the University of the West Indies where he read for a Master’s degree in Accounting and the University of Western Ontario where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. Le Hunte has worked in the financial sector for the past 19 years, 14 of which were spent with Republic Bank in a variety of positions including those of Group Treasurer and Senior Corporate Manager, Trade Finance.

RONALD F deC
HARFORD
Ronald F deC. Harford, Chairman and Managing Director Republic Bank Limited, headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago, has over 40 years experience in the Caribbean banking industry, and has been at the helm of Republic Bank since 1997. A Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Bankers, Harford is also Chairman of the Republic Finance and Merchant Bank Limited (FINCOR) and the National Commercial Bank of Grenada Limited, two subsidiaries of Republic Bank Limited. He is a director on the boards of the National Bank of Industry and Commerce Limited (Guy-ana), Republic Nominees Company, the University of the West Indies (UWI) Institute of Business and is the immediate Past President of the Bankers’ Association of Trinidad and Tobago.

DAVID DULAL-
WHITEWAY
David Dulal-Whiteway is the Deputy Managing Director of Republic Bank Limited. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Western Ontario and is a member of the Certified General Accountants (CGA) of Canada. He holds the post of Chairman of Trinidad Cement Holdings Limited, and is also a Director on the Board of Republic Finance and Merchant Bank Limited (Fincor), London Street Project Company Limitied, Republic Securities Limited and the Foundation for the Enhancement and Enrichment of Life (FEEL).

PETER GLADWYN SYMMONDS
Peter Gladwyn Symmonds is a Partner in Yearwood & Boyce Law firm, one of the oldest law firms in Barbados. With a Masters of Laws degree from the University of London, and a  Diploma in Air and Space Law from the London Institute of World Affairs, in 1981, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Barbados. Vice President of the Barbados Bar Association and Member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Planners Association, Symmonds is also an appointed Justice of the Peace since February 2003.

JOSEPH GOODARD
Joseph Goddard became Managing Director of Goddard Enterprises Ltd, Barbados, on October 1, 1991. He joined the company in the early ’70s when he returned to Barbados after completing his professional accounting qualification in England. He read for his MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and subsequently qualified as a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Goddard is also Honorary Consul General for Finland in Barbados.