St. Lucia Simply Beautiful

Corporate governance is the system by which businesses are directed and controlled. It involves a set of relationships between a company’s management, its board, its shareholders and other stakeholders; it deals with prevention or mitigation of the conflicts of interest and is intended to increase the confidence of stakeholders. It addresses the accountability of the people in the business with the purpose of safeguarding its long-term success. Threats to good corporate governance are disharmony in the ranks, and egos getting in the way.

Saint Lucia is really a fun country. There is always an event to look forward to. There is never a dull moment. This is the Saint Lucia everyone will like to be a part of. Most importantly, in recent years most major activities/events have been shared with many communities around the island.

In the context of cricket, the politicians need to become involved, at the legislation level, to redress the situation of “cricketing public suffrage” where only a small minority of the cricket public currently have the right to vote in the WICB governance system.

Mr. Peter Josie will share excerpts from his book – SHATTERED DREAMS with family, friends and well wishers on Sunday April 1, 2012 at the Kimatrai Hotel, Vieux Fort at 4.00pm. Admission is FREE!  

The Springer legacy in scouting all began in March 1912 when Charles Wilkinson Springer, my grandfather, was the first Scoutmaster of the first Scout Troup in Barbados at the Combermere School. All this was refreshingly renewed last week when I was part of the celebrations of the 100th Anniversary of Scouting in Barbados.

Those who have been watching and waiting to establish branches or to invest in new projects in the South are advised to make the move without any further delay. Don’t wait another day. Make your move now. Secure your space in the New Frontier. It is no longer a dream, it is fast becoming reality.

This trading system is designed to effect efficient planning, organizing, staffing, leadership and monitoring, in other words, the efficient management of the agricultural sector by managing the growth of one commodity after another.

Returning to Barbados for the moment and, indeed, this is true for many states around the world, the system of governance that is practised does not permit the best brains in the country to exercise their full potential in contributing to the development of the country. This is because many of the best brains may not want to participate in the political system and there is no provision for them to make a sustained input in the future fortunes of the country.

At the national level, Britain’s Prince Edward affirmed Barbados as a “model small state” but advised its leaders they would need courage, creativity and common sense to overcome the economic challenges. He was addressing a Joint Sitting of Parliament in the Senate Chamber, held in commemoration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and further reaffirmed that Barbados had demonstrated its maturity and self-confidence and that it actively seeks to learn from the past.