Former Caribbean diplomat and current regional business executive and Sunday Observer columnist, Sir Ronald Sanders, has been appointed by the British Government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to its Caribbean Board.

The Caribbean Board’s terms of reference include: helping to promote and enhance the commercial and business links between the UK and the Caribbean; providing the UK Government with a source of constructive, independent advice which enable ways to consolidate and build on the existing relationship between the UK and the Caribbean; and advising the British Government on opportunities for the establishment of linkages in the areas of education, social and cultural affairs, media, sport, entertainment and information technology.

Sanders brings a wealth of varied experience to the Board. In media and culture, he has been a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, president of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, member of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean News Agency and writes a weekly column in Jamaica’s Sunday Observer newspaper.

In business, he has served on the board of directors of banking institutions and telecommunications companies.

As a diplomat he was Antigua and Barbuda’s high commissioner to London and ambassador to the World

Trade Organisation.

Sir Ronald has also served as an advisor to a joint Commonwealth-World Bank Task Force on small states and has published widely on the Caribbean in the international community. His last book, Crumbled Small, was published in London last year.

The Caribbean Board has been in existence for four years and its members are mostly eminent persons of Caribbean background whose work involves them closely with

Caribbean affairs.