Far from what she described as a “painful” experience, Carolyn Paul made a quantum leap in her professional life from banking to working with the vulnerable and helping to empower others; the mother of two children thinks she was right where she was supposed to be.
“It was painful at first, but in retrospect I think that has pushed me to my purpose,” he told Stabroek Weekend. Paul was talking about an experience he saw in exile from the banking sector, where he had spent 11 years. She said she did it with support from many, including her husband, Hakeem Paul, relatives and friends.
Paul was among six Republic Bank employees who were laid off in 2007 following an $ 8 million disappearance of an ATM machine although there was no evidence linking them. The five women and one man had protested their treatment by the bank and police alleging that their rights had been violated during the process.