ECCB 2016/2017 Annual Report

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ECCB ANNUAL REPORT 2016/2017

Staff and Departments Receive Inaugural S.T.A.R. Awards Governor Antoine with individual S.T.A.R. Awardees: L-R: Shermalon Kirby-Gordon - Corporate Relations Department, Andrea Peets-Samuel - Currency Management Department, Allison Stephen - Banking and Monetary Operations Department, Zanna Barnard - Research Department and Jevon Wilkin - Support Services and Management Department

On his first day in office - 1 February, 2016 - Governor Antoine declared his desire to forge a new culture within the Bank based on some core values and critical behaviours and he presented to the management and staff the S.T.A.R. mantra, which typifies: Service Excellence, Teamwork and Truth Telling, Accountability, Results.

Governor Antoine with recipients of the Departmental S.T.A.R. Awards: L-R: Lyle Mark - Acting Director, Management Information Systems Department and Shermalon Kirby- Gordon, Acting Director - Corporate Relations Department

In keeping with this new trust, the Governor introduced the S.T.A.R. Awards to recognise individual members of staff and the respective departments who exemplify the S. T. A. R mantra. To determine the individual S.T.A.R Awardees, all members of staff were invited to nominate any member of staff or management, save and except for the Executive Committee. For the departmental awards, all departments were invited to submit nominations for consideration. All nominations were assessed based on a set of criteria. For the individual category, 15staffwerenominated,whilesixdepartments submitted entries. Five individual staff members and two departments received the inaugural S. T. A. R. Awards at the Bank’s Annual Staff Dinner held on 10 December 2016.