Dominica Youth Business Trust re-accredited for 5 years

The Dominica Youth Business Trust (DYBT) has been re-accredited for five years.

The DYBT which was re-accredited in 2011 for 3 years went through a process in June 2015 to be reassessed as an agency to facilitate young people and received word of its re-accreditation to continue its operation in Dominica on October 15.

“On June 8th to the 10th we went through a process of re-accreditation to be reassessed by the Youth Business International, as an agency capable of facilitating young persons’ through entrepreneurial training and funding that we have all the systems in place to make it work as it supposed to,” DYBT Talking Points Coordinator, Kerry-Ann Remie said while addressing a press briefing held at the DYBT conference room on Thursday. “We are happy to say that on the 15th of October we got a response and we have been re accredited for five years to continue the work as a youth business trust in the Caribbean.”

According to her, the DYBT is happy to be re-accredited and, “it is part of our celebrations as not maybe entrepreneurs or an enterprise but as an institution that facilitates entrepreneurs and enterprise.”

Meantime, Chief Youth Development Officer John Roach said the re-accreditation says something about quality of products produced in Dominica.

“It says something about our small country, we are small but we do produce quality and that’s what I am particularly impressed with,” he noted.

Additionally Roach said, “What I am more impressed about is the fact that the first time we had a three-year accreditation and this time around we got a 5 year accreditation status and very importantly it is an unconditional accreditation which means that you met all the requirements with flying colours.”