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  • Missouri man charged for shooting Black teen who knocked on his door

    Missouri man charged for shooting Black teen who knocked on his door

    An 85-year-old white man who shot a Black teen at his front door in Kansas City, Mo., last week has been charged with armed assault, and the Clay County prosecutor said Monday there was a racial component to the case. Prosecuting attorney Zachary Thompson said at a news conference that Andrew Lester shot 16-year-old Ralph…

  • Man eaten alive by bed bugs while held in filthy jail

    Man eaten alive by bed bugs while held in filthy jail

    A Georgia man has allegedly died after being eaten alive by insects and bed bugs at a prison in Atlanta, his family’s attorney has claimed. LaShawn Thompson, 35, was arrested for simple battery in Atlanta on June 12 last year and had not yet been convicted, according to police. He was placed in the psychiatric…

  • South Korea has so few babies it is offering new parents $10,500

    South Korea has so few babies it is offering new parents $10,500

    (Al Jazeera) – In their apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, Kwon Jang-ho and Cho Nam-hee sat down recently at the kitchen table to work out the monthly budget for their 17-month-old son, Ju-ha. “Raising a baby in Korea can be affordable if you don’t buy unnecessary stuff and take advantage of government support,” Kwon,…

  • NYC urologist busted for allegedly fondling underage boys, using sex toys on patients

    NYC urologist busted for allegedly fondling underage boys, using sex toys on patients

    (NY Post) — A Manhattan urologist already being sued by seven male patients for alleged sex abuse was busted Tuesday on related criminal charges, including some involving underage boys, authorities said. Darius Paduch, 55 – who formerly worked at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Northwell Health – carried out the abuse when he was alone…

  • 5 dead after shooting at Kentucky bank building

    5 dead after shooting at Kentucky bank building

    (The Associated Press) — Five people were killed and six others hospitalized in a shooting at a bank building Monday morning in downtown Louisville, Ky., police said. Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey told reporters that officers who arrived on the scene “encountered active gunshots still being fired inside the location at that…

  • Dalai Lama regrets asking boy to ‘suck my tongue’

    Dalai Lama regrets asking boy to ‘suck my tongue’

    (BBC) — The Dalai Lama has apologised after footage showed him asking a boy if he wanted to suck the Tibetan spiritual leader’s tongue. His office said he wanted to apologise to the child and his family “for the hurt his words may have caused”. The video also shows the Dalai Lama kissing the child…

  • Animal-to-human diseases on the rise

    Animal-to-human diseases on the rise

    (AFP) – From COVID-19 to Mpox, Mers, Ebola, avian flu, Zika and HIV, diseases transmitted from animals to humans have multiplied in recent years, raising fears of new pandemics. – What is a zoonosis? – A zoonosis (plural zoonoses) is a disease or infection transmitted from vertebrate animals to people, and vice versa. The pathogens…

  • Filipinos nailed to crosses despite church objection

    Filipinos nailed to crosses despite church objection

    (AP) — Eight Filipinos were nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of devotees and tourists to the Philippines despite being rejected by the Catholic Church. The real-life crucifixions in the farming village of San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga province north of Manila resumed after…

  • Boy, 11, ‘kills 10-year-old girl’ at German children’s home

    Boy, 11, ‘kills 10-year-old girl’ at German children’s home

    An 11-year-old boy is suspected of involvement in the death of a 10-year-old girl at a children’s care home in Germany, police have claimed. The girl was found dead in her room at a child and youth welfare facility in Wunsiedel, in Germany’s Bavaria region, on Tuesday. Evidence collected at the crime scene ‘indicates the…

  • Royal Family hit by new payout demands over slave trade links

    Royal Family hit by new payout demands over slave trade links

    King Charles’s backing for research into links between the monarchy and slavery risks fuelling calls for Britain to pay compensation, critics warned last night. Buckingham Palace yesterday announced it was cooperating with a landmark study into the monarchy’s involvement with the transatlantic slave trade and said the King took the issue ‘profoundly seriously’. The research…

  • Jamaican man gets 3 years for knowingly infecting UK woman with HIV

    Jamaican man gets 3 years for knowingly infecting UK woman with HIV

    A Jamaican man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment in the United Kingdom for knowingly infecting a woman with HIV. A Chester Crown Court handed down the sentence against Jamaican-born Jermaine Scott, 39, on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm. Scott was reportedly diagnosed with the potentially deadly virus in 2005…

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]