The Tribune

THE Ministry of Financial Services is partnering with the Rotaract Club of East Nassau, the Bahamas Trade Commission and the College of the Bahamas Alumni Association to host a discussion on the World Trade Organisation on December 6.

The talk will take place at 6pm in the Harry C Moore Auditorium at COB’s main campus in Oakes Field.

It is part of the government’s mandate is to have extensive public consultation on its trade policy and all international trade agreements, Financial Services Minister Ryan Pinder said.

Sessions have already been held in Freeport and with service providers and industry professionals, Mr Pinder told a press conference Wednesday.

“Now we bring our interaction and public discourse with the youth of the country, the aspiring professionals, entrepreneurs, those young persons who look to be active in sectors of the economy that we traditionally haven’t been involved in,” he said.

The panel will include Mr Pinder, Trade Commission chairman Philip Galanis, former Chamber of Commerce president Dionisio D’Aguilar, attorney Willie Moss, and East Nassau Rotaract president Jamie Lewis

Mr Lewis welcomed the opportunity “for us to take a greater participation in the national dialogue”.

“It is very important that young people push themselves to the forefront and start to engage in society on all these topical issues,” he said.