Antigua Breaking News

Day: February 20, 2023

  • Air Antilles adding 20, 000 additional airline seats to Barbados

    Air Antilles adding 20, 000 additional airline seats to Barbados

    (Barbados TODAY) — Barbados has made a significant stride to boost inter-regional travel through discussions with French airline Air Antilles. As a result, from April 1, 2023, the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) will welcome a new daily schedule of flights between Barbados and Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique, and Pointe-a-Pitre in Guadeloupe. Chairman of the…

  • Cannabis found at post office

    Cannabis found at post office

    Twelve pounds of cannabis were seized at the General Post Office on Monday. Both the police and customs were conducting a search at the main postal facility and discovered twelve Vacuum-sealed packages of the controlled substance hidden inside two cardboard boxes. It is estimated to value $72,000. The police are continuing investigations into the matter.…

  • Another powerful earthquake rocks hard-hit regions in Turkey, Syria

    Another powerful earthquake rocks hard-hit regions in Turkey, Syria

    (AP) — There are reports of more collapsed buildings Turkey and Syria on Monday after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey’s Hatay province, which was devastated by a massive tremor two week ago. Syria’s state news agency, SANA, reported that six people have been injured in Aleppo from falling debris. In Turkey, the mayor of Hatay…

  • Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda Delivers the 2023 Speech from the Throne

    Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda Delivers the 2023 Speech from the Throne

    PHOTO CREDIT: Wayne Marriott His Excellency Sir Rodney Williams, GCMG, KGN, KSt.J, DSc, PhD(hc), MBBS, FCAMA Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda Delivers the 2023 Speech from the Throne MANAGING WITH A SMALLER TEAM: A more nimble and responsive government Monday, February 20, 2023 Parliament Building Queen Elizabeth Highway St. John’s, ANTIGUA and BARBUDA MADAME PRESIDENT…

  • Jamaica Mom says she had no idea daughter, 12, was being molested and had abortions

    Jamaica Mom says she had no idea daughter, 12, was being molested and had abortions

    (Jamaica Observer) Her oblivion was eventually washed away in a landslide of bile and resentment. While she worked in another parish for months in 2014, this mother said she was completely unaware that her 12-year-old daughter was being molested by a man more than twice her age. The girl said she was impregnated three times…

  • Urgent Action needed to solve Mental Health Crisis in Antigua and Barbuda

    Urgent Action needed to solve Mental Health Crisis in Antigua and Barbuda

    Over the last few days, I have been following the developments surrounding Claudene Moore and her declining mental health which led to a public episode on Old Parham Road on Saturday. According to reports, she was taken to the Sir Lester Bird Medical Center where she was restrained and medicated but subsequently escaped the Hospital…

  • Biden visits Ukraine ahead of war anniversary

    Biden visits Ukraine ahead of war anniversary

    (AP) — President Joe Biden paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called “a brutal and unjust war” days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion. “One year later, Kyiv stands,” Biden declared after meeting…

  • Boy, 15, stabbed in the back

    Boy, 15, stabbed in the back

    A student of the Ottos Comprehensive student who was stabbed last week did not know he was bleeding. The 15-year-old boy was stabbed with scissors to his back on by an unknown assistant in broad daylight. According to reports, while in the vicinity of a Barber Shop on High Street he and a young man…

  • Company says $122K removed from account without authorisation

    Company says $122K removed from account without authorisation

    The Directors of Caribconex Ltd on All Saints Road have reported to the police that US$122,000 was wired from their account at a local bank without authorization. The directors reported that the incident occurred sometime between December 20 and 22. Police are investigating. Make a donation to help support ABN, via PayPal: [email protected]. Follow Antigua…

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION)

 

OECS MSME Guarantee Facility Project

Loan No.: IDA-62670, IDA-62660, IDA-62640, IBRD-88830, IDA-62650

Assignment Title: Senior Operating Officer (SOO)

Reference No. KN-ECPCGC-207852-CS-INDV

 

The Governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have received financing in the amount of US$10 million equivalent from the World Bank towards the cost of establishing a partial credit guarantee scheme, and they intend to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, and consulting services to be procured under this project. 

The consultant will serve as the “Senior Operating Officer (SOO)” for the ECPCGC and should possess extensive knowledge of MSME lending with some direct experience lending to Micro, small and medium-sized businesses, knowledge of the internal control processes necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk mitigation procedures. The ideal candidate should possess an Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Accounting, Banking or related field, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in lending, inclusive of MSME lending. The initial employment period will be for two years on a contractual basis. Renewal of the contract will be subject to a performance evaluation at the end of the contractual period. The assignment is expected to begin on September 30th, 2021.  The consultant will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the ECPCGC.

The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be viewed by following the attached link below. 

 

https://bit.ly/3iVannm

 

The Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECPCGC) now invites eligible “Consultants” to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have:

  • An Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Finance, Banking or related field; and
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in MSME lending. Applicants should also have:
  • The ability to design and implement risk management procedures 
  • Extensive knowledge of MSME lending with some direct experience lending to small and medium-sized businesses
  • Extensive knowledge of MSME banking operations
  • Knowledge of the internal controls necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk management procedures
  • Experience developing and presenting information in public, including responding to questions in real-time
  • Experience lending to MSMEs located in the ECCU
  • Knowledge of marketing and communicating with the MSME sector
  • Ability to draft procedures to be used in a lending operation
  • Familiarity with the mechanics of a loan guarantee program
  • Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills, and
  • Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office suite.

The attention of interested Individual Consultants is drawn to Section III, Paragraphs 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers July 2016, [revised November 2017] (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Approved Selection Method for Individual Consultants set out in the clause 7.34 of the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers. 

 

Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 0800 to 1700 hours:

Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation

Brid Rock, Basseterre,

St. Kitts.

Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form by e-mail by August 11th, 2021, to [email protected]. 

 

For further information, please contact:

Carmen Gomez-Trigg                                                            Bernard Thomas

Chief Executive Officer                                                          Chief Financial Officer

Tel: 868-620-8144                                                                  Tel: 869-765-2385

Email: [email protected]                                          [email protected]