Anthea McLaughlin

Anthea McLaughlin is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bridge Foundation and works with partners and resource experts to match client expectations and needs. At the Foundation and BPA, the consulting arm of the Foundation, she provides forward thinking leadership and facilitates the creation of programs for non-profits, corporations, and public agencies to ensure their responsiveness to stakeholders and communities.

Anthea also guides non-governmental and corporation staff to measure its social impact performance and promotes the use of evidenced based models to guide implementation. She continues to promote public – private partnerships in the Caribbean given her extensive experience in NYC where she co-spearheaded for over seventeen years, a city-wide, public-private partnership with an eighty (80) member public-private sector oversight committee and commissioner led advisory board. As co-director of ACT, she promoted service integration in child welfare, education, mental health, juvenile justice, early care education & youth development, created multi-sector coalitions and guided the development of child welfare networks in partnership with Administration for Children’s Services. In the Caribbean, Anthea develops programs that are accessible and meaningful in lives of children and families. She guides the Foundation to draw upon community and cultural values, everyday life experiences and engages children, youth and families in a school, or community to become agents of personal and social transformation.  

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Talya Mohammed

Talya Mohammed is the Sustainable Development Strategist-Energy, HSE & Climate at the Foundation who has made invaluable contributions over the past 17 years in the fields of Environmental Testing and Management, Health Safety Environmental System approaches including Project Management.

She also works with the Voluntary National Review at local and regional levels and conducts HSSE, Energy & Energy Efficiency & Green Business for non-governmental agencies and small to medium businesses.

She presents at various conferences on Caribbean culture, barriers and solutions to climate change and sustainable development and trains on watershed management, energy efficiency, and conservation, including strategies for SDGs implementation.

Talya has appeared on various local TV and Radio stations to discuss topics on Recycling, Waste, Conservation and Climate Change.

She is passionate about critical decision-making that requires evidence-based approaches to towards changing behaviour. Talya has worked for 4 years in ICT sector through ISOC with an MBA in Sustainable Energy Management for Arthur Lok Graduate School of Business, Trinidad and Tobago and Bsc in Chemistry and Environmental and Natural Resources Management from the University of the West Indies.

Barbara Bridgewater

Barbara Bridgewater is a life skills trainer and seasoned educator with over 30 years’ experience in school administration and teaching science at secondary schools in Trinidad and Tobago.

Barbara has a passion to improve student outcomes through student-centered teaching in classrooms and throughout her career has translated her passion via teacher- training workshops, particularly for secondary school teachers working in East Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.  She believes that student- centered teaching, is a key to unlock challenges in the education system.  Her strategies are geared towards greater understanding of self and for children and families to experience personal and social transformation.

Barbara has worked as a Project Coordinator to Establish Integrity Clubs in seven (7) Secondary Schools and trained students to be pioneers of integrity. Her other experiences range from facilitating Life Skills programmes for parents, inmates, substance abusers, and on-the-job trainees. She is also designs environmental – literacy games which are currently being used for student - centered teaching and for climate action teacher training in more than 70 schools and in community development programmes with youth and adults.

At Bridge Foundation, under the Read to Rise and Green Space programmes, Barbara works as a Program Developer and Facilitator of literacy and environmental awareness activities and creates strategies to build knowledge and SDG awareness for young children and their families.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences with honors from The University of The West Indies, St Augustine & Diplomas in Education for Teaching Practice and for Life Skills with distinction from The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. She is often called upon to lecture on The Teaching of Life Skills with Literacy at the University of The West Indies, Open Campus.

Barbara Bridgewater is also the Creative Director of Discovery-Learning Forum that customizes programmes focusing on cognitive, social, and coping strategies for children and families in educational settings.

Dennis Ramdahin

Dennis Ramdahin is committed to working for the causes of people and planet. He is an internationally respected scientist and sustainable development practitioner with 20 years of engagement in the field of sustainability planning and implementation. He specializes in the development of solutions for complex issues requiring sustainable thinking, including poverty alleviation and climate mitigation programs, both internationally and in the United States.

Based in New York City, Ramdahin is Founder and Lead Scientist of the Vihara Foundation, a US based non-profit that is working to develop and implement a much coveted business model for poverty alleviation worldwide, as well as climate mitigation and creative development financing strategies. Ramdahin's fluency in sustainable development engages him in game changing projects globally. Some of the most current activities of Ramdahin includes the Super Energy Efficient Building Initiative for Climate Action (SEEBICA), and infusion of sustainability into Politics by forming and leading one of the FIRST green political parties in the Caribbean with major emphasis for sustainable development and sustainable economic growth (YOUR Party Trinidad & Tobago).

Georgia Donaldson

Georgia is a Certified Behavioural Coach, a Senior Certified Professional (SCP-SHRM) with the Society for Human Resource Management and a Certified Mediator through the Mediation Board of Trinidad & Tobago.  She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies and a Master of Science Degree in Business Psychology from Franklin University. Georgia is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and a former Board Member of the Human Resource Management Association of Trinidad & Tobago.

She has spent over twenty-five years creating opportunities for individuals and organisations to grow and develop through her human resource management, business psychology, facilitation, coaching and career guidance skills.  Georgia is the Chief People Officer at National Flour Mills and was recently the former Country Chief Culture & Human Development Officer at JMMB Group TT. She also owns Corporate Options, a consulting firm and served in several senior HR roles in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.

Georgia Donaldson is no stranger to presenting at workshops and credits her expertise in that area to her years of involvement with Toastmasters International. 

In the area of volunteerism, Georgia supports We Say Y.E.S., a not-for-profit youth entrepreneurship organisation and is a Director of Bridge Foundation. 

She is married with three grown children and loves to host get-togethers with family and friends.

Stephen Singh

Stephen A. Singh

Stephen A. Singh (FCIArb) was born in Kingston, Jamaica and is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (Upper Second Class Honours, 1985) and the Hugh Wooding Law School (1987). He is the Senior Partner of Johnson, Camacho & Singh. As a commercial litigator of approximately 30 years experience, he has appeared before most tribunals in the Caribbean including the CCJ and the Court of Appeal of the OECS. He is admitted to practice in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Guyana, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago. He has appeared as Counsel in major insolvency cases in the region namely: Allied Bank and Bank Crozier (In Liquidation) (Grenada); the Hyatt Hotel Receivership and Cotton Bay Liquidation (St. Lucia); BCCI (In Liquidation) (Trinidad and Tobago); the Mazaruni Granite Receivership (Guyana) and APUA v. Asot Michael et al (Antigua); Motor and General Insurance Company (In Liquidation) on behalf of the Central Bank and the World GTL Receivership as Counsel for Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited.

He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration and his main practice areas include Arbitration, Banking and Finance, Construction Law, Cross Border Insolvency, Environment Law Insurance, Labour Law, Oil and Gas, Maritime Law and Tax. In Trinidad and Tobago he has acted on behalf of the Inspector of Financial Institutions viz. insurance companies in liquidation and has commented on the new Insurance Act. Whilst representing other clients in regulatory matters, he has had to provide advice to the SEC, EMA, COTT and the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad & Tobago. In conjunction with UK Counsel, he has participated in ICC Arbitrations such as Merhav Mekorot Development Trinidad & Tobago Limited v. WASA (2013) and Consolidated Energy Limited v. Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Limited; CL Financial Limited and Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Limited (2014) and currently serves as Arbitrator in a number of matters.

He has represented sponsors, architects, project managers and financiers, providing advice on various issues in large infrastructural projects throughout the Caribbean. Notable projects include the ALNG Project, Phase 1 where he represented Whessoe Overseas Limited, the subcontractor for the construction of the LNG tanks, the Transjamaica Highway Project (where as part of a team he advised financiers on various construction issues), the Government Campus Plaza (where he represented the Project Managers, Turner International Ltd.) and UTT’s Signature Campus Project. In 2011 he was Counsel for a team of negotiators for Construtora OAS S.A., a Brazilian EPC Contractor awarded the Point Fortin Highway Project in Trinidad. He has appeared before the UFF Commission of Enquiry into construction issues in Trinidad and Tobago on behalf of Turner International Ltd

In the area of medical negligence, he represented the MDU in his first two years of practice whilst employed at M. Hamel-Smith & Co., 1987-1989. He was part of a team which represented an oncology centre in a claim brought against it by a cancer patient who subsequently died. Recently he has advised on negligence arising from an open heart surgery procedure.

A former Chairman of AMCHAM’s Environmental Committee, he was involved in stakeholder meetings on the Environmental Bill and has advised energy sector clients on CEC Applications and Notices of Violation. In the area of energy, he has given advice specifically on various aspects of Gas Sales Contracts, Production Sharing Contracts and was Junior Counsel for the Board of Inland Revenue against a major oil company on an issue of the incidence of taxation of Natural Gas Liquids. As Counsel to Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Limited, he has developed a working knowledge on taxation issues as it relates to downstream companies. He appears regularly before specialist tribunals such as the Environmental Commission, Tax Appeal Board and the Industrial Court.

A founding member of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Commerce’s Dispute Resolution Center, Stephen is among other things a certified mediator, a former member of the Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators for the International Convention for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, a past member of the Caribbean Law Institute’s Advisory Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution and a past member of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Departments Roster of Experts in the field of Crimes against the Environment. He has also acted as an Adjudicator on various awards in the construction sector.

Notable publications include “THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR E&D IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO” International Oil and Gas Finance Review 2002 and together with a former United States of America Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago he co-authored “ARBITRATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE CARIBBEAN” – The Commonwealth Lawyer, April 2002, Vol. II No.1. He is the co-contributor to “THE AMERICAS RESTRUCTURING AND INSOLVENCY GUIDE 2008/2009” section on Trinidad & Tobago (publishers: Morgan Stanley, PricewaterhouseCoopers, American Bankruptcy Institute, Globe White Page).

In addition to the above diverse areas of practice, he has a basic understanding of Spanish and French and through correspondent attorneys has represented clients in Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and Martinique.

Edward Van Low

With over 25 years of senior management in business and strategy development, with technical and financial systems experience with leading global financial institution, governments and ICT institutions. He has worked on the design, development and implementation of multiple projects that range from large scale real-time financial trading and banking systems, development of global payment systems and the deployment of large data centers, some of which budgets exceed 30-50 million US$.

His core experiences are in business and technical implementation of financial systems for banks and trading institutions with extensive expertise in business processes re-engineering, management and project planning, designing and development of real time financial systems, payment systems, electronic funds transfer, and global financial communication systems. He has also worked with major international financial and technical firms (CrimsonLogic - Singapore), Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Wertheim Schroders & Co. and DowJones/Telerate and regional governments.