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Richard de La Bastide, outgoing Yara Trinidad president. –

Richard de La Bastide, president of Yara Trinidad Ltd will retire effective September 2022, to be succeeded by senior manager operations Treveno Stenn Mowassie.

De La Bastide was part of Hydro Agri and Yara for more than 30 years and was head of the company for ten years, holding positions in TT and Qatar. He also served on several boards including Yara and the Energy Chamber of TT.

Meanwhile, Mowassie, a qualified chemical engineer, was with Yara for 17 years and held senior roles in production and project management and served in several global network teams at Yara.

Treveno Stenn Mowassiepic, incoming Yara Trinidad president. –

In a statement, de La Bastide described his years of service at Yara as a privilege and honour, saying he was proud of the milestones his Yara colleagues and industry partners achieved together as the challenges they faced made the company stronger.

Mowassie said, “I have enjoyed working with Richard and am both honoured and humbled by the opportunity to succeed him as president. I’m fully motivated for the journey ahead and look forward to continuing to progress our business in TT.”

Bruce Hope, vice president of production for Yara North America, said, “Richard has steered the company through a challenging time in recent years and now leaves a legacy which his successor can build on for the future.

“I have full confidence in Stenn to take the reins and add a new perspective to the company while staying true to the renowned vision and values of the company.”

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Twenty-one beneficiaries from the National Community Foundation’s scholarship programme benefitted from a four-hour-long workshop last Friday (August 12) that addressed the worrisome act of bullying.

Held in the Saint Lucia Workers’ Credit Union Limited building on Bourbon Street, Castries, the workshop aimed to equip students with the knowledge they need to recognize, prevent and react to bullying.

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behaviour among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both children who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.

The workshop was facilitated by Janine Palm, of the Serieux Foundation, which promotes awareness in young people regarding identity, dreams and aspirations with education, social media safety, positive relationships, and leadership-mentoring programmes. The Serieux Foundation also provides sustainability for the community and parents.

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Palm engaged the students in interactive group activities that allowed them to learn about each other, compliment each other, and presented scenarios in which they were expected to make positive choices.

“I understand that many young people don’t get an opportunity to hear any type of positive language, not even in schools or at home,” said Palm at the conclusion of the exercise. “So what better way to implement this than within a session targeting issues around what is actually going on in young people’s lives?”

According to Palm, bullying ties in to many social issues in a society. Therefore, she urges parents and teachers to recognize the signs of bullying to prevent its long-term damage in children.

“Your child being isolated and not going outside is one of the signs,” she said. “Your child not socializing or coming home saying they have no friends. Or when you drop them off or pick them up at school, you notice they’re often by themselves. Parents need to observe their children and listen effectively to them when they speak. Talk to your children and have an open relationship with them so they can be open and honest with you.”

She added: “Check your child’s social media because a lot of bullying happens online. If your child has WhatsApp or Instagram, get access to it. Go through their messages, check their pages, read the comments…You have to be observant. You have to be a FBI agent when you’ve got a child. This is the era of social media, so you can’t mess about.”

Her advice to children feeling bullied: “Tell a teacher. If your teacher does nothing about it, speak to the school’s guidance counselor, speak to your parents, and speak to someone in your community. Find a youth worker in your community or your social transformation officer. Get in contact with an organization that you feel can make a difference, including the national suicide helpline.”

Sasha Polius, Youth Worker in the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, was also a co-facilitator at Friday’s session. She said the exercise was timely and well needed by the youngsters.

Sasha Polius, Youth Worker in the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports, engages the students in a group activity.

“I think we targeted the right age group because early intervention is always good,” said Polius. “Today was a good example of the practical use of early intervention. I think there was an impact made on the children by the activity.”

Polius said many people don’t really understand how detrimental bullying is, neither do they understand the magnitude of bullying that many children face.

“It’s so prevalent in all schools,” she said. “Some people think that it’s a small thing. Bullying is sometimes masked as joking around, so people who are being bullied often think it’s just joking around, and don’t take it seriously until they start feeling the consequences of being bullied.”

According to Polius, the most common forms of bullying children face are verbal abuse and cyber-bullying. In some cases of physical abuse, she said, children go home with injuries. As such, addressing the detrimental practice of bullying requires serious intervention.

“It’s something that we need to start tackling head-on and more aggressively by going to schools and trying to educate our young people on the importance of being kind to each other and what bullying can lead to,” Polius said.

SOURCE: National Community Foundation. Headline photo: Workshop facilitator, Janine Palm, far left, engages students during a group activity session.

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Existing limited liability companies (LLCs) would no longer have to file a certificate of amendment on membership changes with the Companies Register, as one of the key proposed changes in the Limited Liability Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2022.

While changes would no longer be filed with the Companies Register, the amendment also would require LLCs to maintain, at their registered offices, the names and addresses of their members in their register of members, and the nature of their voting rights; and to provide this information upon demand to the Companies Register.

Lastly, because penalties for failure to provide beneficial ownership information are now covered in the Cayman Islands’ beneficial ownership administrative fines regime, the amendment proposes to remove the penalties provision in the current LLC Act, thereby removing the duplication.

“These three amendments are in line with global regulatory requirements set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for fighting financial crimes, while clarifying the LLCs’ responsibilities in relation to maintaining and providing beneficial ownership information,” the Minister of Financial Services and Commerce, the Hon. Andr? Ebanks, said.

A “beneficial owner” is a person who ultimately owns or controls an entity, although the entity may be held in another name.

Minister Ebanks will present the Bill at the next sitting of Parliament.

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Another 15 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

This now takes active cases in Guyana to 386 including two patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining persons in either home (371) or institutional (13) isolation.

Four more other persons are also in institutional quarantine.

Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 1278 while some 69,152 persons have since recovered from the life-threatening virus in the country.

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