Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

86 Economics LLOYD BEST (1934-2007) L loyd Best was educated at Tacarigua EC School, Queen’s Royal College, Cambridge University and Oxford University in England. As an economist he lectured at UWI and in 1976 he founded the Tapia House Movement. Along with Sir Arthur Lewis and William Demas he was one of the top economists whose theories helped shape the economies of T&T and the wider Caribbean especially. He was also a founding member of the New World Movement, and a founding editor of the New World Quarterly. He also served in the Senate of Trinidad & Tobago where he was Opposition Leader during the periods 1974-75 and 1981-83. His publicationsweremany including 1974 - BlackPower&National Reconstruction; 1989 - Where Do We Go From Here? Alternative Strategies for National Management as Trinidad, Tobago and the West Indies Approach the Twenty-first Century; 2003 - Independent Thought and Caribbean Freedom: Essays in Honour of Lloyd Best . • 2006: Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. WILLIAM G. DEMAS (1929-1998) A n economist by profession, Demas was a well known Caribbean person who contributed greatly in the efforts to unite the Caribbean. Along with Sir Arthur Lewis and Lloyd Best he was one of the top economists whose theories helped shape the economies of T&T and the wider Caribbean especially.