ROTA NEWS August 30, 2018 Club Officers & Directors President District 7030 - Club # 6798 Shawn Franklin Chartered March 07, 1962 President Elect Peter Williams DISTRICT OFFICERS Vice President District Governor John Cabral Dominique V éner é Secretary District Governor Elect Neal Griffith Trevor Blake Treasurer R.I Theme 2018-19 District Governor Nominee Kolé Mascoll Lisle Chase Club Administration R.I. OFFICERS Michael Browne Assistant Governor President Lisa Cummins Membership/Youth Service Barry Rassin District Secretary Makonem Hurley President Elect Vincent Tacita Public Relations Mark Maloney Tracey Knight-Lloyd District Treasurer RI Membership Charles Francois Committee Vice-Chair Community Service PDG David Edwards Council of Governors Chair Malcolm Vaughn PDG Waddy Sowma International/Rotary Foundation District Rotary Foundation Chair Adrian Skeete PDG Herv é Honor é Immediate Past President District Grants Chair Paul Ashby PDG Milton Inniss Sergeant–At–Arms Council on Legislation Peter Arender PDG Tony Watkins THE FOUR WAY TEST Weekly meetings on Thursdays at Of the things we think, Hilton Barbados say or do: Needham’s Point, Aquatic Gap, 1. Is it the TRUTH? St. Michael 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? at 12 p.m. 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS ? P.O. Box 148B, Brittons Hill, St. Michael, Barbados 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? www.clubrunner.ca/barbados THE ROTARY CLUB OF BARBADOS President Cecil, in upda)ng the Club on the progress made WELCOMES ALL VISITING ROTARIANS AND since the passage of the hurricanes last year, spo6e to the chal7 GUESTS lenges currently faced. Mar 07 - Club Charter Date - 1962 - Club # 6798 RI THEME: BE THE INSPIRATION (The following presentaons were taken from the Weekend Naon of AUGUST—MEMBERSHIP AND NEW CLUB DEVELOPMENT MONTH August 2 and the Sunday Sun, August 26. They were wri%en by Ms Rachelle Agard) Today0s Mee)ng is a Fellowship Mee)ng ROTARY HELPS DOMINICA PROJECT RECAP: August 23, 2018—Fellowship Mee)ng The Rotary Club of Barbados has teamed up with the Rotary Club of Barbados, in assisng the school children with rebuilding a Last Thursday was an especially path and a bus shelter. packed meeng. We Welcomed the President of the Rotary Club of This is according to president of the Rotary Club of ominica Cecil Shillingford who was speaking during the Rotary Club of ominica, Cecil Shillingford, who Barbados’ luncheon yesterday at Hilton Barbados. received the proceeds of the con- President of the Barbados club, Shawn 7ranklyn, also presented tribuons of the Rotary Clubs of Shillingford with a cheque for an undisclosed sum towards the Barbados to their ongoing rebuild- pro:ect. ing e&orts from the devastaon of Hurricane Maria on September 18, ?In terms of pro:ects my club is looking at this walkway for stu- dents of two small communies: Massacre and the CaneAeld. 2017. a year ago. The school is on the Massacre end and the children of CaneAeld have to walk down to that school. In addion we welcomed 0uest Speaker, Mr. Ro1roy 0reenidge who ?Prior to the hurricane they would walk on the inside of some spoke on e-commerce. barriers and on a footpath to get to the area, but because of the He has been a banker for 12 years, impact of Hurricane Maria, there was some collapsing of the slope and a lot of debris in the area. What we intend to do is re- eight of which were spent in Elec- move the debris. The railing was also damaged so we’re going to tronic Banking. Areas in electronic repair that, and repair the pavement areas that were damaged,B banking include 5isa and MasterCard he said. se6lement and CARI7S se6lement while at 7irst Ci8ens Bank. Currently Addionally, they would also be looking to repair a bus shelter in his role at RBC, Ro1roy is responsi- used by the children. ? ominica is a high rainfall area, and the shelter is used quite a ble for sales in electronic channels. These channels in- bit. Again because of the hurricane it was unroofed. Last Satur- clude POS Merchant Services, E-commerce and Cash day we were able to start to reroof it, and we’re going to com- Management. plete it ne1t Saturday, and also start the work on the footpath,B (A summary of this presentaon will be available later) he said. SUMMARY OF THE PRESENTATION Meanwhile, on the more local side, the Rotary Club is also help- ing the Asher folk who would have lost all their equipment to get BAC,GROUND new equipment, and began a recycling pro:ect where the materi- For those who may recall, just before the District Conference al is used to make les and :ewellery. CRAD this year, we were paid a visit by two members of the Ports- mouth Club of Dominica, who gave us a status update on Dominica. They were on their way to the District Conference President Cecil in Suriname to request further district support in rebuilding accepng the Dominica. contribuon The Naon 0roup, in collaboraon with the Rotary Clubs of from President Barbados, on September 16, through a radiothon had raised Shawn on the funds for those countries in the region which were impacted by Hurricane Irma. ominica was hit by Hurricane Maria on behalf of the September 18. Rotary Clubs of Barbados Today these funds were handed over to President Cecil. Connued next page Connued next page TAKE YOUR ROTARY LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO THE DOMINICA :NEEDS HELP0 NEXT LEVEL WITH RLI The Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) is a multi- ominica is facing a dire problem in the area of reconstrucon, and is currently imporng skilled labour from other Caribbean islands to assist in their rebuilding e&orts. This is according to president of the Rotary Club of ominica Cecil Shillingford, who was speaking to the media at yesterday’s Rotary luncheon at Hilton Barbados. ?Immediately aEer the storm, once you have these big impact events people lose hope and they start looking for greener pastures. And given the level of damage we had from FHurricaneG Maria, a lot of houses went down and a lot of those people had nowhere to live and they leE,B he e1plained. He said prior to Hurricane Maria, there were several storms that a&ected other Caribbean islands. As a result, people moved to assist those islands and found it diHcult to return given the fact they were now employed over there. ?We really have a shortage of labour and we have to be imporng labour from the other Caribbean islands. We have had teams from St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba and from 5ene8uela. I know past istrict 0overnor avid Edwards is trying to mobilise a team in Bar- bados to come to ominica to assist in some of the re-rooAng,B he said. He added a lot of houses were sll currently covered with tarpaulins. ?A lot of these tarps have a lifespan. aEer si1 months or so they start district, grassroots leadership development program to give in, and people are having problems with staying in their of member districts organized into regional divisions homes because they are geIng wet at this me. If you have a tarp in various parts of the world. on your house for si1 months that is giving in, then you start geIng RLI is a recommended program of Rotary Interna- tional. wet,B he said. RLI seeks to provide quality education in Rotary knowledge and leadership skills to Rotarians inter- Shillingford noted another issue facing ominicans was the availabil- ested in developing their Rotary participation and to ity of material and sourcing of material from other countries, given those identified by Rotary Clubs as having a potential the impact of Hurricane Irma. in club leadership. These educational opportunities will teach skills that will benefit the members in their ?It is a problem, and any assistance that can be given in that direc- lives and in their volunteer service. on ominica will welcome it very much. Right now it is double trou- ANNUAL BOAT PICNIC ble. We’re coming out of Maria and entering a new hurricane sea- The Club’s Annual Boat Picnic is planned for Sunday son. I don’t know if ominica is a target for those hurricanes, but September 16 , 2018. PDG David, PP Ron, and PP recently we had Hurricane Beryl that was approaching ominica. John Cabral have made their boats available. The time for the picnic is 11.00 a.m. until 4.00 p.m. and Everybody was very nervous,B he said. we sail from the areas where each boat is docked. Please confirm your attendance by 12.00noon on The disaster management professional with over 25 years’ e1peri- Thursday, September 6 to PP Jerry via email to jer- ence said he knows what he went through following the passing of [email protected] . Hurricane Maria. Remember the capacity is 36 and places will be allo- cated on a first response first accommodated bases. ?I :ust got electricity si1 weeks ago. I sll have no Internet, no televi- It is customary that the passengers on each boat sion FandG the water goes and comes. And with Beryl approaching, provide their Food & Beverage. The Captains of each boat will contact each person on their boat regarding people went into a state of panic. Right now the state does not have the menu. enough shelters around, and if Beryl was actually going to hit omi- nica, you’d have more people sick in shelters coming out of the Ma- ria e1perience than we ever had before,B he said, adding that there were about 100 people sll in shelters.