Q: Are you where you’ve always wanted to be?
A: No. I have an associate degree in funeral service administration and I loved that course. Pharmacy was an afterthought but my base in funeral service got me through pharmacy. Death taught me about life.
Q: What is your biggest professional challenge?
A: Obtaining the education needed to propel me further in the pharmacy profession. After the 2013 Budget, it just got harder but where there is a will there is a way.
Q: What is your biggest life challenge?
A: Time management. This one factor is probably the single reason why I have not met some of the goals I would have set for myself during my teenage years. I’m improving, but it’s still a work in progress.
Q: When you look to the future what do you see?
A: I see myself obtaining my life goals before the age of 55. I’ve gotten older and more proactive and moving forward. Up and on, up and on.
Q: What is your favourite pastime?
A: Reading books or going out somewhere I’ve never been before or haven’t been to for a long time. Going to the beach runs a close second place.
Q: What is your favourite meal?
A: None. Once it’s edible I’ll eat it.
Q: On Saturday nights where are you likely to be?
A: Sleeping, after a hard day’s work. If it was a Saturday that I did not work, see question five.
Q: What upsets you the most?
A: People who are selfish, not genuine and rude.
Q: What is your guiding philosophy?
A: The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Q: If you had the chance to manage Barbados for a day what would you do?
A: I would focus more on agriculture and renewable energy. A hungry population is an angry, sick and unproductive population. Renewable energy speaks for itself; a healthy environment equals a healthy, happy population.
Tourism doesn’t seem viable at the moment and sugar takes us right back to agriculture and alternative energy. Housing would be focused more on high-rise buildings. Leave the land for agriculture.
The focus in education would be the skilled (blue collar) sectors. They are the producing sectors and this is what I believe can bring us out of this economic slump.
