BASSETERRE ST. KITTS (March 24, 2010) -- As the Youth Empowerment through Skills (YES) Programme celebrates its first anniversary, secretariat manager Leslie Connor has singled out for commendation, the Development Bank of Saint Kitts and Nevis which has hosted the programme’s secretariat at the basement floor of its Church/Central Streets building in Basseterre.
“Since the Programme was started by Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas one year ago, the Development Bank took the YES Programme in, and even as our operations grew, you continued to provide us with the necessary office space,” said Connor. “The programme has succeeded in achieving its goals, and we owe this to your generosity.”
Connor made those remarks Wednesday morning when he paid a courtesy call on the Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis general manager, Lenworth Harris, to invite him to attend an anniversary dinner that will be hosted by the hotel trades students of the YES Programme at the Royal St. Kitts Hotel on Friday March 26.
The bank’s general manager, Lenworth Harris, in accepting the invitation to attend the dinner said: “It has been our greatest pleasure to host the YES Programme and to be part of this most important programme for the development and empowerment of our youth and we really hope that the relationship can continue and that we can facilitate you in any way we can.”
According to the YES Programme secretariat manager, Leslie Connor, hotel trades students under instructor Michael Guishard at the Royal St. Kitts Hotel, and the students training at the Keys Community Centre under instructor Dominic Stevens will combine as they showcase the skills they have learned so far, as part of the programme’s first anniversary celebrations.
“This is an important milestone as far as this programme is concerned,” observed Connor. “Our Prime Minister, Dr Denzil Douglas, went out of his way to ensure that the youth of this country are trained in the various areas, by creating the YES Programme. This is only one of the fields of training, and we have invited the Prime Minister to attend the dinner.”
He observed that Prime Minister Douglas apart from engineering the creation of the programme in March last year, he keeps tabs on what they are doing, noting that he has previously been treated to a luncheon by the group training at St. Paul’s, and for fine dining with the students at Royal St. Kitts Hotel. The Governor General, His Excellency Dr Cuthbert Sebastian, and all cabinet ministers and senior government officials have been invited.
