Georgetown: The United States Embassy has officially announced the appointment of Christopher M Cushing as the Mission Director for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Eastern and Southern Caribbean.
Cushing, who has been on the job since October 21, is based in Bridgetown, Barbados, the Embassy said in a release. Most recently, Cushing served as USAID Mission Director in Ecuador from August 2013 to September 2014. Prior to this, he served as the Director of the Strategy, Budget and Programme Office for USAID’s Latin American and the Caribbean Bureau (LAC) programmes, subsequent to serving as Deputy Director of LAC’s Regional Sustainable Development Office, which comprised technical and sectoral staff.
He was also strategy team leader for Latin America and the Caribbean Strategy, Budget and Programme Office and a Supervisory Programme Officer in Panama and Honduras. Prior to joining USAID, Cushing served in Peace Corps staff in Paraguay and Costa Rica as Training Coordinator and in Slovakia and the Baltics as Programme and Training Officer.
The Embassy said it also takes this opportunity to inform of the name change of the USAID office from USAID Barbados and Eastern Caribbean to USAID Eastern and Southern Caribbean. The name change now more appropriately reflects the countries in which USAID assistance programmes are implemented, including the Southern Caribbean countries of Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and where US Embassies with which USAID coordinates are also present.
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