Each year, the CWWA identifies two distinguished Caribbean Engineers to award its highest honour, at its Annual Awards Banquet. The Gold Awardees for 2000 were as follows:

Andrew P. Hutchinson, Consulting Civil Engineer, Barbados

Andrew Hutchinson graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of the West Indies (1971), and obtained a post-graduate Diploma in Sanitary Engineering in Delft, Netherlands (1974). Eng Hutchinson is a member of a number of professional associations including President of the Barbados Association of Professional Engineers (1983) and of the CWWA in 1995 and 1996.

Eng. Hutchinson spent his early years (1972-79) in various consulting civil engineering firms; and from 1980 (to the present) he has been Principal and Managing Director with responsibility for the planning, design and project management of a wide range of civil, structural and environmental engineering projects undertaken by his company - Associated Consulting Engineers Ltd.

As Vice President (1993-1994), President (1995-1996) and Immediate Past President (1197-98) of CWWA, Eng. Hutchinson has served the Association with distinction and merit beyond his homeland (Barbados) and the shores of the Eastern Caribbean

Raymond Reid, Retired PAHO Environmental Health Engineer, Silver Spring, Maryland USA.

Raymond Reid graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Haiti in 1961, and obtained his masters degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa in 1966. In 1975, 1981 and 1992 he did further studies in project/engineering management.

Eng. Reid spent his first years (1961-64) as a civil engineer at home in Haiti, and then (1966-68) as a Water Pollution Control Engineer in Illinois, USA. In the years 1968-72 he was PAHO Country Engineer stationed in Guyana with responsibility for Guyana and Suriname for which he developed water and sewerage projects as well as a rural sanitation programme. Transferred to Country Engineer stationed in Jamaica (1973-78) he also serviced PAHO programmes in Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos Islands and Bermuda.

In the years 1978-91 Eng. Reid served in Washington at PAHO headquarters as Regional Advisor in charge of the Programme of Technical Cooperation in Water Supply, Sewage Disposal and Environmental Control for the Caribbean Region. Later on (1992-99) his work as a Regional Advisor expanded into PAHO's Latin America Programme; and since his retirement in 1999, he continued to serve environmental health engineering throughout the Caribbean.

Without doubt Eng. Reid is highly respected in the water and waste management industry in the Caribbean