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Some CDB staff not happy with president

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THERE IS TROUBLE BREWING at the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

Some “concerned” staff members are unhappy with the leadership of CDB president Dr William Warren Smith, and have written the board of directors of the regional institution to complain.

The group claims Smith’s leadership style has led to a number of high profile staff leaving the bank, and that the Jamaican-born economist has managed to “alienate, demoralise and emasculate employees at all levels of the organisation”.

However, Smith, though revealing he was unaware of the letter being sent to the bank’s board of directors, has strongly defended his tenure as head of the institution, located in Wildey, St Michael. (BA)

Please read the full story in today’s Sunday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.


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