Are you where you’ve always wanted to be?
Excellence is a moving target, so whenever I reach a goal, I set new ones.
What is your biggest professional challenge?
I try to be both a manager and a leader, and I have at the forefront of my mind to inspire my team.
What is your biggest life challenge?
To let excellence pervade all aspects of my life, to balance the demands of my spiritual life, my family life, my military career (I am a commissioned officer in the Barbados Coast Guard Reserves), my civilian career and to be an inspiring husband and father.
When you look to the future what do you see?
What I would like to see is a Barbados that is more business friendly, with less red tape and bureaucracy and a greater ability to facilitate business demands online using the Internet to our advantage.
What is your favourite pastime?
Competitive shooting and hanging with my family.
What is your favourite meal?
I don’t have it often but a grilled steak, medium, with sautéed potatoes, steamed vegetables and mushrooms, in a red wine sauce.
On Saturday nights where are you likely to be?
More often than not with my children Robert and Robyn and my wife Lisa if she is not at work.
What upsets you the most?
Dishonesty.
What is your guiding philosophy?
It is exemplified in a scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 78–82, Polonius’s last piece of advice to his son Laertes.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
If you had the chance to manage Barbados for a day, what would you do?
I would lend more flexibility to the area of taxation and Government revenue, that is, if a business is owed value added tax, and in the current fiscal year they owe solid waste municipal tax or land tax, they should be able to net it off against the payment owed.