BARBADOS HAS LOST one of its brightest economists with the death over the weekend of Carlos Holder, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Barbados.
The 66-year-old chairman of the board of directors of Capita Financial Inc. and deputy chairman of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados, passed away on Saturday at his St Philip home.
Holder retired from the Central Bank in 2009. Prior to his appointment as deputy governor, Holder worked as an economist with that institution before joining the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) as a country economist in 1991. He was seconded to the Ministry of Finance to serve as economic adviser to Prime Minister Owen Arthur from 1994 to 1998 and returned to the CDB as chief country economist in 1998.
Holder received training with the International Monetary Fund in balance of payments methodology and programming and policy. He graduated with a degree in mathematics and economics from the University of the West Indies in 1978 and went on to obtain a Masters Degree in economics from Queens University, Canada, in 1980. (GE)
