LYNETTE EASTMOND

 Lynette is Lead Counsel for EASTMOND & CO. and has applied her legal skills in the taxation, corporate law, financial services regulations, trade, utility regulation, intellectual property and entertainment and media law. She has also engaged in litigation before Tribunals through to the Supreme Court of Judicature.

She was a Senior International Tax Manager with the firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers advising on tax and corporate matters. She then became Director of International Business where she negotiated both trade and tax agreements and formulated policy. 

She served as Senator in the Barbados Legislature and  Minister of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development in the Executive branch of the Barbados Government. Lynette Eastmond served as a Research Fellow for the International Fiscal Association, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and attended  the University of the West Indies and the University of London.  

She has written many articles including The Public International Law Aspects of Some Transfer Pricing Issues published in the Bulletin of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation.

Contact:  lynette@eastmondlaw.com

Raquel was called to the Bar in St. Kitts and later in 2018 was called to the Barbados Bar.  

Raquel loves researching complex issues which is a great access to the practice. She has a particular liking for criminal law but also practices in other areas of the law including Family Law, Estates and Personal Injuries. 

She has also developed  an expertise in dealing with land matters including the restoration of title deeds and conveyancing. 

Raquel has also acted as a Consultant in the field of Human Resources Management and has  developed an expertise in Labour Law.

Raquel attended Queen's College and the University of the West Indies and  joined Eastmond & Co.  in 2018. 

Contact:  rgilkes@bealex.co

 Tyra   attended the Barbados Community College where she obtained an Associate Degree in Law and Political Science in 2014 after graduating from the Combermere Secondary School.

Later she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree from the esteemed University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus where she graduated with Upper-Second Class Honors in 2019.

During her time at the UWI, she was given the opportunity to work with the government of the Bahamas when she enrolled in the International TradeLab Legal Clinic.

Additionally, she represented the UWI in an international Mooting Competition hosted by the American University Washington College of Law in 2019.

Since then, she received her LEC in 2021 from the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago and returned to Eastmond & Co after completing her in-service training with the practice as part of the Law School requirements in 2020.

Tyra Trotman is most passionate about Criminal Law but also has experience in other areas including Probate, Conveyancing, Personal Injuries, Contract Law, Family Law. She is also currently in the process of obtaining her Masters Degree in Public Law and is scheduled to be called to the Bar in October 2021. Contact tyra.trotman@eastmond.co