Guy Hewitt
Guy Arlington Kenneth Hewitt, a minister of religion and social development specialist, held the ambassadorial appointment of High Commissioner of Barbados in London from 2014-2018. He previously worked with the University of the West Indies, Caribbean Policy Development Centre, Commonwealth of Nations, Caribbean Community, and the City and Guilds of London Institute.
Hewitt has been a strong advocate for the Commonwealth of Nations and Small Island Developing States particularly for a change in the OECD Development Assistance Committee rules to allow Caribbean and other SIDS to access development financing when devastated by catastrophic storm systems. In 2016, to celebrate Barbados' Fiftieth Anniversary of Independence he published Fathering A Nation on the life and legacy of Errol Barrow, the first Prime Minister of Barbados and one of the Barbadian National Heroes. He previous wrote extensively on gender responsive national budgets.
In 2018, he was one of the leading advocates on the Windrush scandal, in which he criticised the outcomes of the immigration policies of the British government on undocumented, elderly, West Indian-born, long-term UK residents which included the denial of the right to work, denial of benefits, denial of healthcare and also for some detention and deportation. He published articles with Chatham House and the University of the West Indies on the Windrush scandal in which he outlines the strategy adopted to make the Windrush scandal a national concern and global issue and bring about a major policy u-turn. Hewitt's agitation was included in the podcast series 100 Campaigns that Changed the World.
In addition to his assignment to the Court of St James, Hewitt was the Permanent Representative to the UN International Maritime Organization, and a Governor on the Board of the Commonwealth Secretariat. He has also published a number of books and as an Anglican priest has ministered in Barbados and the wider Caribbean, the UK, North America and Europe.
He is currently based in Southeast Florida.
