By Bennette Roach
Warren Cassell Jr. Speaking to a group in T’dad “We Are Better Youths” (WABY). On Saturday October 11, 2014,
As part of the ECCB’s LEAD Conference now to become a yearly financial and business education campaign for Financial Information Month (FIM), the ECCB will host its 2016 Youth LEAD conference on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 and its Maltin Moving Conference Centre, ECCB Headquarters, Bird Rock with videoconference transmission to the other seven ECCB member countries. In Montserrat it will be held at the ECCB Agency Office in Brades.
Cheverlyn Williams presents on LEAD last Aug
The Conference the ECCB says is, “…in keeping with the thrust towards closer OECS integration…” and to “assist in strengthening youth entrepreneurship and leadership initiatives in the region. The conference will provide young people with an opportunity to share experiences and network with peers with the thrust towards closer OECS integration as a key component of regional development.”
Several persons from throughout the region will make presentations at the ECCB’S Learn, Empower, Achieve, Development ‘LEAD conference’ to include young Montserratian Warren Cassell Jr., the Executive Chairman of the Abella Group, who will address on the topic Calculated Risk taking.
The ECCB’s LEAD Conference is a yearly financial and business education campaign for financial information month FIM.
In an ‘overview’ of the Conference the ECCB states: “Youth populations account for over 60% of the Region’s population and represent critical regional and national regenerative development capacities.” http://www.un.org/sg/priorities/sg_agenda_2012.pdf
ECCB Mentorship Prog 2014
“The aforementioned statistics make a strong case for youth leadership development to be addressed in a transformative manner in order to ensure that tomorrow’s adults have the requisite skills and opportunities to contribute effectively to the wider economic growth and social development of the OECS.
“The Youth LEAD conference is designed to assist in strengthening youth development and leadership initiatives in the region and provide an excellent opportunity for outstanding experiences that will nurture our youth to LEAD. It will also afford them the opportunity to network with peers from across the ECCU in keeping with the thrust towards closer OECS integration as one key component of the region’s development.
FIM is a collaborative effort among the East Caribbean Currency Union Member Governments, Financial and Academic Institutions, the Media, Private and Public Sector Institutions and Community Based Groups.
The month forms part of an ECCU Financial Education Program coordinated by the ECCB.
