Opposition Leader Dean Barrow is presently addressing a first of its kind business mixer where the business class is sharing tables with students from St. John's Junior College sixth form. While Barrow's there to talk about government's cash crunch, it's a prize opportunity for students who get to interact with grown folks who make real money. The Chamber's Dionne Miranda says that the idea is to have businesspersons will exchange ideas with the up and coming entrepreneurs.
Dionne Miranda, BCCI
“What this does is this allows the leaders of today to meet with the leaders of tomorrow in a business setting. So it is the Chamber of Commerce working together with the educational system to prepare Belize for Industry and Commerce and basically the world of business. We think is a wonderful outlet for the students because they will be looking for jobs in the future and actually knowing the people in the businesses that they need to talk, they won’t be sending their letters to a empty institution that doesn’t even know who they are, there will be some warmth and some personality exchanged. At the same time we are expecting that these business leaders are going to be the people who are going to help to mold and to change and to orientate some of the minds of these people as they speak to them today. The students are not only going to be asking what is your business doing and stuff like that. They are going to be asking how did you get into this line of business, what steps do I take, what do I need to follow, and I think this is very important because young people don’t need to only speak with their peers – they need to speak with people who have actually made it and accomplished what they need to accomplish so that they can actually be set on the right direction.”