ECCB 2021-2022 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts

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ECCB/RSS-ARU Creative Youth Competition The ECCB/Regional Security System – Asset Recovery Unit (RSS-ARU) Creative Youth Competition, is part of the ECCB’s Community Outreach Programme. The competition aims to encourage critical and innovative thinking and raise the awareness of secondary school and community college students aged 13-19, in the eight ECCB member countries, on issues of economic and social development. The 2021 Competition focused on visual art. Students who participated in the competition created pieces on one of the following topics: 1. Evolution of Payment Methods: How Will the Use of Money Transform in the Future; 2. Women, the Forgotten Resource: Equal Opportunities for Women in the Workplace and Society; and 3. The Rise of Domestic and Social Ills in the Face of COVID-19. The winners of the competition, were announced in July 2021. In the age 13 – 16 category, Janessa Durham of the St Vincent Girls’ High School in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines captured first place with her piece on the topic: Evolution of Payment Methods: How Will the Use of Money Transform in the Future . Raven Gabriel of the Castries Comprehensive Secondary School in Saint Lucia placed second with her work on the topic: Women the Forgotten Resource. Opportunities for Women in Society and the Workplace , while Leeya Alexander of the St Andrew’s Anglican Secondary School in Grenada walked away with third place for her piece on the topic: The Rise of Domestic and Social Ills in the Face of COVID-19 .

topic: The Rise of Domestic and Social Ills in the Face of COVID- 19 . Ashley Wilson of the Charles E Mills Secondary School in Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis placed third with her interpretation of the topic: Women the Forgotten Resource: Opportunities for Women in Society and the Workplace . In September 2021, the ECCB and the RSS-ARU launched the 2022 ECCB/RSS-ARU Creative Youth Competition with a focus on poetry. Secondary schools and community college students in the ECCU were afforded the opportunity to showcase their talents, not only through the written word, but also using dramatic presentations of their poems. The enhanced submission process allowed students to submit their entries electronically through a web portal. The winners will be announced by the second quarter of the new financial year. ECCB Connects: Who we are. What we do. How we serve you. ECCB Connects forms part of the Bank’s Public Education programme and is aired on its social media platforms and on a number of regional television stations. At the close of the 2021-2022 fiscal year, 18 seasons and 243 episodes had been released since the programme commenced in 2016. The topics covered during the year included: ƒ Social Security Systems in the ECCU; ƒ International Women’s Day: Equity for the Region’s Girls and Women; ƒ The ECCU Payment System; ƒ Climate Related Financial Risks in the ECCU; and ƒ Corporate Governance.

In the 17 – 19 age category, Melanie James of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in Saint Lucia and Shemiah Humphreys of the Antigua State College in Antigua and Barbuda were adjudged first and second respectively with their depiction of the

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