Property Tax and related matters

Mr. Afra Raymond holds the BSc in Land Administration and Valuation from the University of East London and qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1993. 

Afra’s specialisations are Project Management, Housing Development and Planning & Development; his professional publications include "Make Quality part of the Test – Towards a Housing Quality Index’ in Voluntary Housing November 1994 and ‘Risk is something you can’t gamble on’ in Inside Housing 7th July 1995. 

Afra joined the partnership in 1995 as an Associate and became a partner in 1996, he is now its Managing Director. 

Mr. Raymond is a member of the Board of Directors of the Trinidad Building and Loan Association; and a part-time Lecturer for final year (B.Sc. Programme) in Land Economics at the School of Surveying, U.W.I, St. Augustine. 

He has served on a number of Boards in various positions including Executive Member of the Federation of Black Housing Organizations (FBHO) in London, Director of EPL Properties Limited (EPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastern Credit Union (ECU) and Immediate Past-President of the Institute of Surveyors of Trinidad & Tobago (ISTT). Afra is also a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute. 

Afra is past-President of the Institute of Surveyors of Trinidad & Tobago (2009-2010) and Immediate past-President of the Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry (JCC), having served between December 2010 and November 2015.