MAJOR MOVES
Captain Arthur Senhouse – new Director of Flight Operations, LIAT LIAT, The Caribbean Airline, announced the appointment of Captain Arthur Senhouse as Director Flight Operations (DFO) effective September 01, 2015, with responsibility for all aspects of the airline’s flight operations. Prior to taking up his current role, Captain Senhouse was the Chief Pilot – a position he took up in February 2014. He was responsible for the pilots and line operations. Captain Senhouse joined LIAT in April 1987. Since then he has held a number of senior positions within the company including Training Captain on the Twin Otter aircraft. He also served as Chairman of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA). Speaking on his appointment, the new DFO said: “I am humbled by being chosen to head one of the most complex departments within the airline industry. I have joined the management team of LIAT when the airline is at the crossroads of completing its fleet renewal programme and totally reinventing itself into a Caribbean entity we can be proud of. I’d like to thank LIALPA, which I led in 2012, for providing exposure and training consistent with our line of work. I will work tirelessly to ensure that LIAT continues long after I’m gone so that, just as I dreamt to fly a LIAT aircraft; other Caribbean boys and girls may live that dream.”
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Rodinald Soomer – the NEW CEO of CDF
Moreno reelected as IDB President
The Barbadosbased CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) has a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), who will lead the organisation through its second funding cycle, 20152020.
Colombian Alberto Moreno has been reelected to another term as president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Eight Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries – Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago – are members of the bank.
He is Rodinald Soomer, an Economist, who was previously employed in the Division of Economic Affairs with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission, from May 2005 to August 2015, where he headed the Economic Development Policy Unit. Soomer holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and a Masters Degree in Economics from Britain’s York University with a specialization in Project Analysis, Finance and Investment. With the CDF, Soomer’s key responsibility will be to provide direction and leadership to the CDF’s planning, strategy development and implementation processes. These include identifying funding sources, quantifying resource requirements, designing strategies to approach potential contributors and development partners, and administering appropriate policies for the sustainability of the Fund’s capital. He will play the lead role in negotiations with regard to resource mobilization and in advocating the CDF’s vision and mission within the CARICOM region and the donor community.
Moreno began his new term on October 1st that was founded in 1959 and is regarded as one of the leading sources of long-term financing for economic, social and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Board of Governors, which re-elected Moreno, comprises top policymaking body, comprises finance ministers, central bank presidents and other highranking officials from its 48 member countries. Moreno is the fourth president in the IDB’s history. He was preceded by Felipe Herrera of Chile (1960–1971), Antonio Ortiz Mena of Mexico (1971–1988), and Enrique V. Iglesias of Uruguay (1988– 2005). The IDB said that Moreno’s first two terms at the IDB were characterized by reforms to speed up its operations, boost its efficiency and better evaluate its development impact. IDB also added, “Under his leadership, the IDB launched several initiatives in areas such as climate change, renewable energy, citizen security and access to digital technologies. He also built numerous strategic partnerships with public and private allies.”