About the Author:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Alphonso Harris is Guyanese by birth, currently a nationalized Saint Lucian who has travelled extensively. He has lived and worked in several countries outside of his homeland, Guyana, including Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. He is tireless in his quest to share the Principles of Affirmation and to set alight the power of the Entrepreneurial Spirit as a means of assisting in alleviating poverty in the Caribbean and around the world. As a child he helped in his mother’s Parlour (Cake Shop), which was located on Water and New Market Streets in Georgetown, Guyana. Later, while still in his teens, he worked as a counter clerk at a pharmacy in Stabroek Market, a landmark location in the capital, Georgetown. After a short stint in the Postal Service, where he got his first experience of job discrimination, with the encouragement of his uncles, he secured employment as a Counter Clerk with a leading grocery retail and diamond trading business in the interior of Guyana. In the first year, he was promoted to manage a branch shop and subsequently returned to the main office as Book Keeper. Edward Harris began working at the tender age of fourteen and worked in his adult life almost entirely in the private sector in areas of manufacturing, distribution and services. At 73, he is not about to retire and is actively engaged in the areas of Business & PR Consulting, Real Estate, Networking, Freelance Journalism, Motivational Speaking and Private Sector Advocacy. Currently, he holds the position of General Manager for Essential Hardware Limited located in Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia. Edward Harris founded the Guyana Association of Sales Personnel (GASP) in 1975 and the Guyana Small Business Association in 1989. In 1979, he sponsored the Castries Toastmasters Club and in 2007 he was elected Chairman of the Steering Committee which charted the course for the establishment of the Realtors Association (Saint Lucia) Inc. He was awarded the status of Honorary Member of the Association in May, 2010. He served the membership of the St. Lucia Industrial & Small Business Association (SLISBA) for sixteen consecutive years, during the period 1993-2009, in capacities as Secretary, Treasurer, President, Immediate Past President and Management Consultant.
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