Eastern Caribbean Central Bank 2024-2025 Annual Report

EASTERN CARIBBEAN CENTRAL BANK ANNUAL REPORT 2024 - 2025

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

Meet the Top Performers

2024 ECCB/Regional Security System Asset Recovery Unit Creative Youth Competition The ECCB, in collaboration with the Regional Security System-Asset Recovery Unit (RSS-ARU), called on youth aged 13 to 19 from the eight ECCB member countries to unleash their word power and creativity, to help shape our region through their lyrical acumen for the 2024 competition. Given the popularity of the songwriting genre in the previous year, the art form was selected for the 2024 edition of the competition. Participants were invited to share their views, through song, on one of the three following topics: ; Food Security for the Caribbean ; My Vision for the Eastern Caribbean Dollar ; Mental Health of Teens and Young Adults The top three winners in the two age categories: 13 - 16 and 17 - 19 wrote their songs on the topic: Mental Health of Teens and Young Adults. Since the inception of the competition in 2018, the ECCB has awarded over $182,000.00 in prizes and grants to the winners and their respective schools. The ECCB/RSS-ARU Creative Youth Competition is part of the ECCB’s Community Outreach Programme aimed at encouraging critical and innovative thinking among the region’s youth as well as raise their awareness on issues of social and economic development.

1 st Place: Sienna Andrews Convent High School Commonwealth of Dominica

2 nd Place: Beata Vidal Convent High School Commonwealth of Dominica

Age 13 - 16 Category

3 rd Place: Faith Gibson Antigua Girls’ High School Antigua and Barbuda

1 st Place: Kamron Paul Sir Arthur Lewis Community College Saint Lucia

2 nd Place: Dawson Billingy SVG Community College Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Age 17 - 19 Category

3 rd Place: Joshua Browne SVG Community College Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

VIEW - Winning entries for the 2024 ECCB/ RSS-ARU Creative Youth Competition

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