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Haycene Ryan
Haycene ‘Chico’ Ryan as known to many, and a host of other names to his various friends and associates may be considered the authentic George Street product. He represented the island in athletics,...показать большеHaycene ‘Chico’ Ryan as known to many, and a host of other names to his various friends and associates may be considered the authentic George Street product. He represented the island in athletics, cricket, and soccer and had a more than average public service career that comprised 7 years in Customs and Excise; 9 years as Port Superintendent; and 14 years with the Inland Revenue Department from which he retired as comptroller. He considers his most defining action to be that of refusing to pay the freight bill relating to a shipment of galvanize sheets in 1991 as presented to the Ministry of Communications and Works by Great Western Shipping Company. While writing ‘Beyond Today’s Horizon’, after first discussing his thoughts with then Government of Montserrat Economic Adviser amongst others, he made enquiries of the manager of The Bank of Montserrat who made the following statement he considers profound: “You have been working in the belly of the beast and are therefore in a position to make recommendations pertaining to how the island could be rebuilt.” It was with this sense of ‘what was possible’, and not just wishing to quietly get by which was the catalyst for putting the thoughts to pen in an effort to alert anyone who cared about the events that were unfoldingпоказать меньше