2017 JANP Company of the Year Bahamas First Anchors
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Nassau, Bahamas - Under the theme “Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today”, Junior
Achievement Bahamas recently held its 38th Annual Awards ceremony
where the outstanding accomplishments of the achievers, volunteers and
counselling firms for the 2016/2017 year were honoured.
Raymond Winder, Chairman of JA Bahamas stated, “This year’s
theme speaks directly to the way of the 21st Century. No doubt we
are living in some very unique and challenging times. The world continues to
change at the speed of thought, advancing at a rate that requires as much
preparation as it does information. Notwithstanding challenges that we face,
after 38 years in existence, JA Bahamas remains the number one youth programme
in the country. The success of the programme is measured directly by the impact
it has had on tens of thousands of alumni (and supporters), many of whom are
now distinguished in their careers and businesses.”
Approximately six months were spent fostering youth
innovation, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, college preparedness and work
readiness. Key events and activities of the program included Job Shadow Day,
College and Career Fair, STEM Summit, Speech Competition and BahamaJAC. The
culmination of all of these events and the hard work and commitment of all
participants was the annual awards ceremony.
BJAC - Panelist Leon Williams, CEO BTC Everyday engaging achievers at the businees conference
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The most coveted prize of the night, Most Distinguished
Achiever went to Enrique Pyfrom, President of the company Bahamas First Anchors.
The eleventh grade student of St. Anne’s School received a cash scholarship of
$8,000 from Cable Bahamas.
Ms.
Tammy Lecky, Programme Mananager for JA Bahamas said, “As a non-profit
organization, Junior Achievement Bahamas has the task of fundraising so that it
can continue its efforts in youth development. In order to meet the mission and
provide services for the community, they rely on the generosity of individuals
and businesses like Cable Bahamas.On behalf of Junior Achievement, we
wish to express our sincerest gratitude to Cable Bahamas for their generous
cash scholarship donation of $8000.00 for the 2017 JA New Providence Most
Distinguished Achiever, Enrique Pyfrom from St. Anne’s School. Without
the assistance and support of community-minded organizations, we cannot
contribute to the youth advancement of our country. Again, we thank you Cable
Bahamas!’
The second place winner in this category was Malachi Munroe
President of JA Company KPMG Key$ who is
a twelfth grade student of Queen’s College. Tying for third place were Makayla
Hanna also of Bahamas First Anchors and a twelfth grade student of Kingsway
Academy and Patria Symonette President of
JA Company Commonwealth FEVER and a twelfth grade student of Queen’s
College. They all also received cash scholarships prizes.
All of this would not be made possible without the support
of the eight JA Company counselling firms: Bahamas First,BTC Everyday,Commonwealth
Bank,Deloitte,KPMG,The National Insurance
Board,Scotiabank and Sunshine Finance.
BJAC - National Speech Competition winner Malachi Munroe - JA New Providence, 2nd Miciah Miller - JA Central Andros, 3rd Gabriel Joseph - JA Grand Bahama
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Ms.
Lecky continues, “JA New Providence congratulates the 2017 JA Company of the
Year, Bahamas First Anchors and all award recipients for displaying leadership,
entrepreneurial drive and creativity, throughout the 25 week collaborative
environment of the Company Programme. JA Bahamas continues to be grateful
for the commitment shown by our corporate sponsors and volunteers, who
recognize the importance of promoting financial literacy for our future
business leaders and entrepreneurs, who will undoubtedly shape and enrich the
economic future of The Bahamas.”
Junior Achievement Bahamas is a non-profit economic programme for
young people and its missions is to promote economic literacy and understanding
of business and competitive free-enterprise among young Bahamians, the future
leaders of The Bahamas. Currently the programmes facilitate students from K5 -
Grade 12 and have been proven to helpstudents understand the importance
of financial literacy and how it plays a role in every community. Our
successful programmes have been operated in various islands across The
Bahamas;including Abaco, Andros, Eleuthera, Berry Islands, Cat Island,
Grand Bahama, New Providence andMayaguana.
BJAC - Members of the 2016-17 JANP Achievers Association
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John Gomez, COO Cable Bahamas and Enrique Pyfrom, JA New Providence 2017 Most Distinguished Award winner
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BJAC - Team building activities
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BJAC - Panelist Geron Sands, Anastarcia Huyler-Palacious, K. Darron Turnquest, Ianthia Smith, and Jerome Sawyer
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BJAC - Anne Griffin, Advisor NIB, Tammy Lecky, Programme Manager, Achievers
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