Afra Raymond

Afra Raymond is a Professional Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Managing Director of Raymond and Pierre Limited. He is well-known for insightful commentary in press and broadcast media throughout the Caribbean. His special areas of interest include real estate, property development, land-use planning, property taxation, property financing and the 2009 bailout of the CL Financial group.

Raymond is also a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute. He has written extensively on white collar crime, good governance, national development and financial matters, in particular, the CL Financial fiasco. Raymond is a transparency activist whose work can be found on www.raymondandpierre.com and www.afraraymond.wordpress.com. His 2012 TEDxPortofSpain talk: The three sides of corruption has been viewed more than 750,000 times since being published.

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