CIBC-Caribbean announces judges for regional unsung heroes

Published on September 8, 2025

A panel of five distinguished persons has been assembled to decide the first regional winners of the relaunched CIBC Caribbean Unsung Heroes.

The panel is headed by Independent Senator in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament, Senator Francis Lewis a former executive director of marketing and product development at the bank and the man who conceptualized and executed the original programme which ran from 2003 to 2013.

The other judges are: former Barbados Minister of Health Lt. Col Jeffrey Bostic, Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the Five Islands Campus of the University of the West Indies, Antigua, Professor C. Justin Robinson, Bishop, the Revd. Christine Gooden Benguche, President Jamaica Methodist District, President of the Bahamas Red Cross, Edison Sumner and CIBC Caribbean’s Shayon Anderson, Operations Supervisor (ag) based in Jamaica and known for her community outreach and other philanthropic endeavors.

Senator Lewis a Senior Consultant and Director of Res Consulting Limited (ResCo), which he founded in 1993 said it was a “deep honour to accept the role of chief judge” and he was delighted to “once again be associated with CIBC Caribbean and the Unsung Heroes programme”.

A veteran academic and dedicated teacher, he is a Senior Adjunct Professor at the UWI – Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business and was a former Subject Group Head, Marketing.