Keith Worrell

Keith Worrell, B.Sc. (Soc.), M.Sc. (Econ.), Lond., Ph.D. SFU

Keith Le Vere Worrell born the 1st of June 1936 in Speightstown, Barbados passed away in Toronto, Canada on the 28th of November 2025 at the age of 89 after a long illness.
He spent his formative years in Barbados and migrated to Britain at the age of 21 where he first worked on the London Transport System as a bus conductor and eventually as a clerical officer with the Greater London Council, while at the same time remaining focused on obtaining a higher education.
Keith studied sociology at the University of London, Goldsmiths College, specialising in industrial sociology. He read development economics at London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) on a Social Science Research Quota award. He later specialised in monetary economics of developing countries at Simon Fraser University in Canada where he also met his wife to be, Catharina.
After graduating from Simon Fraser University, he was recruited by the University of the West Indies at the Mona campus in Jamaica where he taught economics at the Department of Management Studies.
He was a senior Fulbright Fellow at the Institute for International Economics, in Washington, D.C. and served as an Independent Senator in the parliament of Jamaica.
During his ten years in Jamaica, he was a regular contributor to the Gleaner Newspaper as an economic consultant. His two sons were born at the University of the West Indies Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica.
In 1989 Keith returned to Barbados with his family and took up the role of Director of Economics with the Caribbean Development Bank. After retirement from the bank, he spent his later years in Toronto, Canada with his family.
All those who knew Keith would remember his hospitality, love of cooking and his passion for the game of cricket.
Keith is survived by his wife Catharina, sons Michael and Lionel (Stephen), and brother Ralph.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any memorial tributes be made in the form of a charitable donation to a scholarship fund supporting Barbadian youth.