{"id":1299,"date":"2012-11-02T21:35:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T01:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2012-11-02T21:35:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T01:35:26","slug":"chamber-mourns-the-passing-of-a-former-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/2012\/11\/02\/chamber-mourns-the-passing-of-a-former-president\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAMBER MOURNS THE PASSING OF A FORMER PRESIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint Lucia Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture deeply mourns the passing of former Chamber President Laurie Barnard<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We at the Chamber are joined with the many other organizations, associations, committees and sectors locally, regionally and internationally that he so passionately and efficiently represented.<\/p>\n

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Laurie Barnard, with his diverse interests from agriculture to manufacturing to hospitality, was literally and figuratively an exceptional and outstanding son of the Saint Lucia soil. As a member of the Chamber, he was deeply involved, dedicated and committed in all that the Chamber did and fashioned. As President from 2005 to 2007, he was the exemplar, the creator, the innovator, and left a significant legacy for the Chamber when his term of office ended.<\/p>\n

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His many and varied contributions to the modern day Chamber were substantial.\u00c2\u00a0 He was astute, savvy and directed the Chamber’s endeavours with a single-mindedness of purpose. Indeed, he changed in so many ways the landscape of not only the Chamber,\u00c2\u00a0but also his own distillery and hotel businesses, which he modernised and\u00c2\u00a0made successful.<\/p>\n

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In the areas of Government policy that directly affected the manufacturing, retail, and distributive commercial sectors, his ideas were always innovative and of great value, resulting from his extensive knowledge and research. Though tough and firm, there was fairness always in his participation particularly when dealing with Government Legislation and Policy that he and the Chamber felt would impact the running of the Saint Lucia private sector in particular and the country and society in general. One such case in point is the recently passed Labour Code, where his primary vision, for such an important piece of legislation, was to try\u00c2\u00a0to ensure that all sides were treated fairly.<\/p>\n

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The many accolades, honours and awards which were bestowed on him in his lifetime were all well-deserved and marked the measure of the man. In 2005 he was the Ernst and Young \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Caribbean Entrepreneur of the Year\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, a most prestigious and keenly contested award and no mean feat in achieving. Laurie, a man of integrity, was definitely larger than life and his sterling advice given over the many years of his Chamber Stewardship is still remembered, quoted and continues to be executed.<\/p>\n

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The Saint Lucia Chamber takes this opportunity to offer their\u00c2\u00a0sincere condolences to his wife Pauline and his children Joey, Samantha, Kimberly and Scot; his brothers, sisters and indeed, his entire family.<\/p>\n

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He was a consummate hardworking and successful visionary and will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n

May he rest easily. He has been a good and faithful servant and the landscape of his country, Saint Lucia, is all the better for his having been a part of it.<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0Sumitra Jagroop-Leo<\/p>\n

Membership Development Officer<\/p>\n

St Lucia Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture<\/p>\n

American Drywall Building<\/p>\n

Vide Boutielle<\/p>\n

P.O. Box 482<\/p>\n

Castries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saint Lucia Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture deeply mourns the passing of former Chamber President Laurie Barnard   We at the Chamber are joined with the many other organizations, associations, committees and sectors locally, regionally and internationally that he so passionately and efficiently represented.   Laurie Barnard, with his diverse interests from agriculture to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}