BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – PROSPECTIVE and emerging businesspersons will be given an eye-opening experience in the principles of modern business next week at a Small Business Symposium to be hosted by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB).
Dubbed ‘Business Connect’, the symposium is intended to provide participants with a forum to meet and engage persons in the private sector on tried principles for business success. The two and a half-hour session is scheduled for Tuesday, October 27 at 5:30 p.m. at the Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium.
Through partnership between the central bank and the UWI Open Campus (St. Kitts), participants can expect to walk away with tools that can start or enhance their own businesses.
Deputy Director of Corporate Communications at the ECCB, Sybil Welsh said the symposium will be held as part of the overall Financial Information Month and would strengthen the bank’s thrust to encourage entrepreneurship.
“It’s really where we want to connect people who are already in the business sector with other persons to share ideas, to impart information and in such a manner we increase knowledge.
“Therefore, we hope that persons who are thinking about starting a business will become empowered to really get into the business, and people who are currently in small business will get information to enhance their business competence,” Welsh told SKNVibes in a recent interview.
Welsh said the symposium bears much significance for entrepreneurship, which is rapidly growing in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU). Therefore, the symposium would act as a precursor to launching a small business course in entrepreneurship that would complement the existing Savings and Investment Course.
Participants will be able to learn from Chief Financial Officer of SKNVibes.com Stachio Williams’ presentation on the E-marketing Evolution and Manager of the IT Facility Russell Williams’ presentation on Emerging Technology Solutions.
Rigel Warner, SME’s Account Manager at LIME, and Rodney Browne, Managing Director at e-Caribbean Ltd., will also present on Mobile and other Communication Solutions for small business and Financing Small Business Ideas, respectively.
Participants would be given the opportunity to dialogue with the facilitators in order to better understand how the business principles can be applied to individual situations.
Registration is currently underway at the UWI Open Campus, St Kitts and Nevis.
All interested businesspersons are asked to secure a place by calling (869) 465 2190. Current and former students of the Savings and investment Course will pay EC $30, while all other participants will be required to pay EC $40.
