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ANNUAL

REPORT 2019

Engineering, Our Future

Two To Be Elevated To Fellowship

BAPE Dinner 2018

www.bap-engineers.com

What is your CPD Status…?

It matters..

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Engineering, our future 2018 Page 2

BAPE Representatives and Committee Appointees

on National and International Assignments

Membership Andrea Palmer, Trevor Browne, Adeko Collymore

Education George Johnson, Vincent Jones, Paula Agbowu,

Stacey Burgess

Field Activities Eric Clarke

C.P.D. Trevor Browne, Paula Agbowu, Kenton Gamble

Student Affairs Kenton Gamble, Richard Woodroffe, Andre’a Palmer,

Adeko Collymore, Vincent Jones

Public Relations Jason Clarke, Kenton Gamble, Trevor Browne,

George Johnson

Social Events George Johnson, Richard Woodroffe, Jason Clarke

Office Operations Paula Agbowu

Strategic Planning William Ashby, Robert Weekes

BNSI Kenton Gamble, Andrea Palmer, Trevor Browne

NACOSH Karla Austin

Graduate Development Vincent Jones, Trevor Browne, Richard Woodroffe

Hurricane Shelters Dwayne Squires

CCEO Tony Gibbs

ERB Paula Agbowu, Tony Gibbs, Philip Sobers, Andrea

Palmer, Jason Marshall Philip Browne

Fellowships Trevor Browne, Paula Agbowu, Andrea Palmer,

William Ashby, Jason Clarke

ICE Loretta Walker

IStrutE

ASHRAE Caricom George Nicholson

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CONTENTS

2 BAPE Representatives

3 Contents

4 2018 Dinner a success

5 Salute to our Fellows

6 Committee of Management

7 Agenda of AGM

Committee Report 2018

8 Strategic initiatives 2017 –2018

9 Main Activities & Educational Thrusts

10 Continuing Professional Development

11 Communications & Summary

14 Treasurer’s Report

16 Careers Showcase

18 Membership Report

20 Educational Hikes Report

Partnerships

Barbados Institute of Architects

Engineering Registration Board

TMR Sales and Service Ltd

20 Thanks to our 2018 Sponsors and Partners

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M a n y o u t s t a n d i n g engineering projects are routinely executed by member engineers and organizations. This award seeks to recognize top examples of e xce l l en ce in t he execution of such projects w h i c h a d v a n c e engineering in Barbados. P r o j e c t s mus t b e substantially completed in the current year and be led by local technical / engineering personnel.

The BAPE Award of

Excellence in

Engineering

2018 Awards Dinner a Success Our Annual Awards and Dinner function was relaunched in 2018 and

enjoyed outstanding reviews from all concerned. The organizing

committee and the Committee of Management of BAPE were ex-

tremely happy with the event and the response from members, spon-

sors and partners.

Significantly, we were able to restart our award of Fellowships to

outstanding members and BAPE also launched our Annual Award of

Excellence in Engineering (in Barbados) as a new aspect of the

Awards Dinner.

The 2019 version promises to be even more interesting when our

Guest of Honour will be Former Prime Minister of Barbados Mr Owen

Arthur, who will address the topic “the role for engineering in build-

ing a sustainable future for Barbados”.

Engineers can contact the BAPE office at 429-6105 (or email engi-

[email protected]) to secure your place at this historic event

on December 7th.

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Name Branch

Eng. Abdulhai A. Pandor Civil

Eng. Errol E. Clarke Civil

Our world has been completely revolutionized by technology in every conceivable sphere of life. Engineers and engineering companies continue to do outstanding work to bring top quality technologies to this country on a day to day basis. Much of this work goes on behind the public scenes and in complex and obscure languages, acronyms and calculations. BAPE is intimately aware of the work being done by those engineers who are dedicated to high quality; to professionalism; to their communities; and to the engineering profession itself.

We recognize such lifetime achievements by conferring our highest order of membership on our most outstanding examples of such engineering giants. BAPE considers it the equivalent of an honorary advanced degree in Engineering Achievement.

BAPE’s Nomination and Selection Committees are pleased to announce that the following members have been duly upgraded to the status of Fellows of BAPE effective 7st December 2019.

Two New Fellows to Be Elevated on Dec 7, 2019

Engineering, our future 2018 Page 5

WE SALUTE OUR EXISTING & NEW FELLOWS OF BAPE

BAPE’s current list of esteemed members who have been elevated to the

status of Fellowship of the Association.

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Engineering, our future 2018 Page 6

Sincere thanks to our partners, sponsors, members

and staff who supported our efforts during the year.

BAPE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT & ADMIN 2019

Eng Paula Agbowu

Eng Eric Clarke

Eng. Andre’a Palmer Vice President

Lt. Col. Trevor Browne President

Mr. Jason Clarke Secretary

Eng William Ashby Member

Mr Vincent Jones Mr Kenton Gamble Eng George Johnson Ms Karla Austin

Member Mr Adeko Collymore Graduate Observer

Eng Richard Woodroffe Vice President

Mrs Stacey Burgess Office Administrator

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Annual General Meeting, 26 November 2019

Christie Conference Room, BL&P Co. Ltd.

Garrison Hill

AGENDA

Time Item

5.30 Call to Order

Welcome

6.00 Minutes of last AGM

Minutes of last Extraordinary General Meeting

Report of the Committee of Management

Auditors Report and Financial Statements

Election of New Officers

Election of Auditor

Adjournment

Ascertain a quorum is present

BY LAWS CHANGED

Members are asked to kindly take note of the new bylaws changes that have been effected by our constitutional review undertaken at our 2018 Special General Meeting. The new ByLaws—with the highlighted changes can be reviewed and downloaded from the website @

www.bap-engineers.com

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Foreword

2019 has been a year of restructuring and consolidation for BAPE. This follows

a number of years of very weak financial performances, this year has been one

where the focus has been placed on creating a sound philosophical base for

the organization upon which a solid operational and financial structure can be

constructed.

Partnerships BAPE has continued to build on existing partnerships particularly with the

Engineers Registration Board and The Barbados Institute of Architects, in

sharing administrative resources, and we have been actively seeking to play a

more meaningful role in helping to address matters of National concern. In

this regard, BAPE has sought to engage with government, other social

partners, other professional bodies and indeed with all willing agencies in

addressing matters of national interest.

As a consequence, we now have been much more actively engaged at high

levels in many critical areas of planning. These include:

• The South Coast Sewerage Project rehabilitation issue

• The new Planning and Development Act

• The Electric Light and Power Advisory Committee

• The 100% Renewable Policy initiative by Government

• Transport and Traffic Management development

• The National Standards Institute

Strategic Focus BAPE continues to be concerned about the unsatisfactory focus on the concept

of ‘professionalism’ in Barbados. We made a number of internal constitutional

changes in 2018 to start to set our own house in order, Changes were made

to the terms of Committee Members, the Code of Ethics, and to the categories

of membership. These changes were designed to better recognize the

contributions of Engineering to our society, and to attract more of our bright

young scholars to the field of engineering as careers.

We have also come to recognize that there are hundreds of young, bright

Barbadians who crucially already possess the required academic qualifications,

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT OF

THE BARBADOS ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL

ENGINEERS FOR THE YEAR 2018 –2019.

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Pagbut who have chosen not to pursue the requirements for full professional

qualifications as engineers. These graduates represent a source of potential

national assets that can transform this country if properly nurtured. There

are also far too many qualified persons who simply neglect to satisfy the

legal and professional registration process and therefore remove

themselves from the pool of professional engineers who are available for

critical local and international assignments.

This is a national travesty, and it must become a matter of urgent concern

to BAPE and indeed to all Barbadians that such critical resources remain

untapped.

Main Activities During 2018 2018 was an extremely busy year for the Association. Following our

strategic review and revised vision, a number of initiatives were

implemented resulting in the following main activities.

BAPE Awards and Dinner 2018 A very successful dinner and awards ceremony was held in December 2018.

Sponsored by TMR Sales and Service Ltd, the event celebrated the

contributions of engineers to the country by recognizing seven outstanding

senior engineers who were elevated

to the status of Fellowship of BAPE.

A special award was also made to

the St Nicholas Abbey Heritage

Railway Project as the most

innovative engineering project in

Barbados for the year.

Guest of honour for that occasion

was Minister in the Ministry of

Transport, Works and Maintenance, Hon William Duguid and Engineer

William Ashby performed the role of Master of Ceremonies.

Educational Thrust We have continued with our educational outreach, with two main areas of

focus. First we have instituted a series of technical education sessions

which are designed to bring and keep engineers current on developing

trends, national issues related to engineering and technical developments

of interest to local engineers.

Secondly, we have continued our public outreach which is aimed at

informing the general public, government and other national bodies of the

true role and value of engineering to a society.

Committee Report 2018

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) A new focus was brought to the critical area of Continuing Professional

Development with BAPE undertaking a full review of this process during the

year. Our aim is to bring the whole CPD system fully online, with meaningful

reports that will have implications for registration, re-registration and

professional practice of engineering in Barbados.

Keeping in line with other professional bodies globally and indeed elsewhere

in Barbados, our Engineering Code of Ethics has now been amended to

require the successful pursuit of lifelong CPD for all practicing engineers in

Barbados.

This scheme will be administered by a special sub committee led by the

Engineers Registration Board, which will monitor compliance and publish a list

of all compliant engineers annually. BAPE intends to pursue the arrangement

where CPD becomes a requirement for annual registration for all engineers in

Barbados.

The scheme is currently being tested on our website at;

www.bap-engineers.com

Engineers Registration Process Work continues in association with the ERB to update and modernize the

process by which engineers are registered annually. Regulations are currently

being contemplated which will define clear classifications levels from student

engineers to Registered / Chartered Engineers modernize the process of

annual registration and update the functions of the ERB.

Communications While we have noted some improvements in our organization’s public profile,

we are disappointed about the slow response from engineers in making use of

our new web site for such activities as documenting their continuing

professional development (CPD), updating their online professional profile and

generally interact with BAPE.

The website is constructed 100% in-house, and we will be very responsive to

requests and suggestions for ongoing improvements. We therefore welcome

all feedback and comments that are geared towards making the effort more

user friendly and useful.

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National Activities BAPE participated in the following national activities and events during the

last year:

• The South Coast Sewerage Project Oversight Committee

• The Planning and Development Act Review Committee

• The Electric Light & Power Advisory Committee

• The Sustainable Housing stakeholders review committee

• The Barbados National Standards Institute

• The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources 100% RE initiative.

• BMEX 2019

• NACOSH

• Our Annual Engineering Student orientation and briefing

• Ministry of Labour with sick buildings issue

• Various school careers days.

Conclusion While we are happy with the progress that BAPE has made over the last two

years in becoming more vibrant and relevant to national needs, it is

becoming increasingly clear that a much bigger role is needed for the

organization if our country is to survive the challenges being faced in our

complex world. To this end, we will actively be seeking the increased

involvement of retired engineers who may be willing to bring their many

years of technical and managerial experience to the table as BAPE

volunteers for various institutional and government projects and

organizations that are in dire need of such expertise. We look forward to

significant support in this venture.

Eng. TT Browne

Lt Col (ret)

President

For Committee of Management

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Attendees:

Paula Palmer Richard Woodroffe Bigel Blair

Grantley Haynes Stacey Burgess Vincent Jones

George Nicholson Akeem Nurse Eric Clarke

Jason Marshall William Ashby Karen Walkes

Paula Agbowu Andrea Palmer Tony Gibbs

Robert Weekes Trevor Browne Jason Clarke

Philip Sobers Kenton Gamble Adeko Collymore

The meeting was called to order at 5:40 p.m.

Eng. Browne welcomed members attending the Annual General Meeting and

confirmed the agenda.

Excuses for absence were received from Eng. George Johnson, Eng. Gregg

Parris, Eng. Craig Archer, Eng. Dev Maharaj, Eng. Rommel Hinds and Eng.

Peter Thompson.

Eng. T Browne raised the topic of membership and the approach by the

Executive Committee regarding accepting new honorary members. Eng. T

Browne presented two (2) nominees Mr. James Husbands and Mr. Grantley

Haynes.

Eng. T Browne moved to members to accept membership proposal. Eng. E

Clarke seconded the motion to accept Mr. James Husbands and Mr.

Grantley Haynes as Honorary Members.

Eng. G Nicholson inquired on what the executive committee proposed to

achieve with the membership decision made. Eng. T Browne explained to

present members the future press release plans with the aim of raising the

profile of engineering in Barbados.

Discussion on Registration of Engineers

Eng. T Browne introduced the proposed process of registration and the

importance of Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The process

involves incorporating CPD into the process for an engineer registering.

MINUTES OF THE 54th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE BAR-

BADOS ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS HELD OM

THE 22nd OF NOVEMBER 2018 AT THE CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT

BANK, WILDEY, ST MICHAEL.

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Eng. R Weekes and Eng. G Nicholson raised queries regarding the registra-

tion process and CPD proposed and the impact on industry engineers.

In addition Eng. R Weekes raised the issue of policing this process and Act

by drawing parallels to other laws passed in Barbados.

Eng. T Browne sought to clarify the stance on CPD and how the association

seeks to protect the Professional Engineer.

Eng. R Woodroffe raised the potential issue of the limited range of seminars

hosted by the association. Highlighting that to capture the range of profes-

sional engineers in the island varying topics need to presented to mem-

bers.

Review of Minutes of the Prior General Meetings and Matters Arising

Eng. T Browne invited a motion to have the minutes for the 52nd AGM which

were circulated prior as read by present members. Eng. T Gibbs raised the

motion and Eng. R Weekes seconded the motion.

The following corrections were identified:

The initials of elected candidates in Item 7.1 were omitted.

Item 4.1.h The British Virgin Islands and Dominica experienced category 4

hurricanes and not category 5 as stated.

The minutes for the 52nd AGM were approved as amended on a

motion by Eng. P Agbowu and seconded by Eng. W Ashby.

Eng. T Browne requested a motion to have the minutes for the spe-

cial general meeting held on May 16, 2018 which were circulated

prior as read by present members. Eng. T Gibbs raised the motion

and Mr. V Jones seconded the motion.

The minutes for the special general meeting were approved on a

motion by Eng. T Gibbs and seconded by Eng. A Palmer.

Committee of Management Report

Eng. T Browne introduced and gave an overview of the

annual report for 2018. Present members confirmed receipt of the

report.

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Minutes 2018 Page 14

Eng. T Gibbs applauded the efforts of the committee and the report high-

lighting activities undertaken.

Treasurers Report, Auditors Report & Financial Statements for 2018

Eng. P Agbowu gave an overview of financial position of the association for

the start of the new term.

Eng. P Agbowu indicated that the aim for the association is to move away

from the over reliance on membership dues to remain in a healthy financial

position. In addition the most recent seminar held in October will be re-

flected in the next financial year.

Eng. T Browne indicated that the audited financial statement and auditor’s

report was circulated prior to the meeting. The documents were prepared

by Messrs. Skeete, Best & Company, Chartered Accountants.

Eng. P Agbowu responded to queries on the financial statement and high-

lighted the impact of an accrual system versus cash system on bad debt

and invoicing members for membership fees.

The following points were discussed by members:

Eng. P Palmer and Eng. K Walkes suggested removing non paid members

from the membership list to avoid over invoicing.

Eng. G Nicholson inquired about the consequences of not being a paid

member.

A motion was moved to adopt the 2018 auditor’s report and financial state-

ments by Eng. K Walkes and seconded by Eng. A Palmer.

Election of Officers

Mr. Grantley Haynes acted as the election officer and declared all offices

vacant. He thanked the outgoing committee and informed others if there

were wiling that they can be nominated at this point and declared nomina-

tions as open.

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Minutes –2018 Page 15 Minutes of 2018 AGM

The following candidates were elected unopposed.

Post Candidate Proposed Seconded

President Eng. T. Browne A. Palmer T. Gibbs

1st Vice-President Eng. A. Palmer T. Browne P. Agbowu

2nd Vice-President Eng. R. Woodroffe P. Agbowu N. Blair

Treasurer Eng. P. Agbowu N. Blair W. Ashby

Secretary Mr. J. Clarke P. Agbowu W. Ashby

Member Eng. E. Clarke P. Agbowu T. Browne

Member Eng. W. Ashby P. Agbowu T. Browne

Member Mr. K. Gamble P. Agbowu T. Browne

Member Mr. V. Jones P. Agbowu T. Browne

Graduate Mr. A. Collymore P. Agbowu T. Browne

Mr. Grantley Haynes declared elections closed and congratulated the new

executive committee.

Election of Auditors

Eng. T Browne proposed and it was voted to retain the services of Messrs.

Skeete, Best & Company, Chartered Accountants.

Any Other Business

Eng. G Nicholson informed members he is the current President of the ASH-

RAE CARICOM Chapter and notified members of the upcoming annual lec-

ture.

Eng. T Browne invited members to confirm their attendance with Ms. Stacey

Burgess regarding the Annual Awards and Dinner.

Closure

Eng. Browne adjourned the meeting at 8:07 pm and thanked members for

their turn out.

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Treasurer’s Report

The referenced audited financial statements for the financial year (FY)

2019cover the period October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019. The audit

was once again carried out by Messrs. Skeete, Best & Co., Chartered Ac-

countants, who have again provided the association with excellent service

and whose re-appointment is recommended.

The first page of the financial statements contains the Independent Audi-

tor’s Report and members will see that they have indicated that the finan-

cials of the BAPE are in keeping with the International Financial Reporting

Standard for small and medium sized entities.

The Statement of Financial Position as at September 30, 2019has shown a

small loss position. While the membership dues should cover the expenses

for the association, it is noted that these alone are unable to sustain the

association with its current level of membership. The membership has not

significantly increased over the years other than for the graduate and stu-

dent membership. These categories do not significantly contribute to the

overall income for the Association.

See below trended membership information.

The economic crisis is still having its impact on the Association and once

again the Association finds itself in a financial situation which is not sus-

tainable for the long term.

• Unless one or more of the following occur we will continue to experi-ence financial difficulties:-

• Increase in membership

0

50

100

150

200

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

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• Increase in membership dues and/or collection

• BAPE conduct more educational seminars/workshops

1. BAPE facilitate CPDs on a fee basis

These measures are not meant to be all of the possible scenarios and are

intended for discussion on the way forward for the association. However, it

is recognized that the Association generates its income substantially from

most of the items listed above.

It is also recommended that a new approach towards financing and sustain-

ing the Association be put in place and that this should consist of some

form of incentive based program.

There are a few notes that need to be made with respect to the financials

as follows:-

With respect to the Annual Dinner which was re-activated, the Association

would have made a slight loss, without this loss the association would have

broken even for the FY2019. The committee felt that it was important to

have this event and for engineers and the practice of engineering to be

highlighted. This is expected to be an ongoing Annual event. We expect to

break even in future, this is not anticipated as a money making venture.

The Association had to purchase a new computer and printer this year.

While contemplating the purchase as replacement for the old computer, the

computer “crashed”, therefore leaving no alternative but to provide a re-

placement for the associations work to continue.

Generally speaking the Association has kept its expenses quite “tight” given

the fiscal constraints

It is recommended that the new Executive seek to address on a more per-

manent basis BAPE’s financial position if the association is to continue to

grow and serve its members.

As always, I want to thank particularly, Mrs. StaceyBurgessfor her commit-

ment and support as well as the Executive Committee for their cooperation

over the past year.

Eng. Paula AgbowuEng. Paula AgbowuEng. Paula AgbowuEng. Paula Agbowu

Honorary Treasurer (2018-2019)

Barbados Association of Professional Engineer

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BAPE Evening Technical Sessions:

Vincent Jones BSc. Hons, ICIOB, Grad IOSH, Affiliate BAPE

This year in an effort to ensure that our membership was given the oppor-

tunity to achieve Continuous Professional Development (CPD) points, the

executive committee embarked on the hosting of monthly evening techni-

cal sessions. The purpose of these sessions were to have professionals in

the particular subject area present on a range of topics that would be of

benefit to our membership and the wider technical community. All sessions

hosted were presented in the conference room of the Christie Building.

The first event was held on the 3rd of July and examined the topics of Water

Distribution, Conservation and Harvesting, and was presented by former

BWA General Manager (Ag.) Dr. John Mwansa and Eng. Andrew Hutchinson.

Both engineers discussed in the time allotted several aspects of this topic

as attendees were given some insight into the Barbados water distribution

system and some of the challenges facing that now aged system. The top-

ics of water conservation and harvesting were then discussed, with Eng.

Hutchinson and Dr. Mwansa alluding to several methods of water conserva-

tion, with some regional examplesand Eng. Hutchinson discussing some

actual projects here in

Barbados that were

successful operating

examples of effective

water harvesting. The

question and answer

portion of the session Presenters Mwansa and Hutchinson

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was very useful for all attendees.

Our second technical session focused on Project Management, Fixing the

Implementation Deficit, this was hosted on August 14th and was presented

by Project Management professional Ms. Carolyn Attong with over 25 years’

experience having worked in Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing and Gov-

ernment IT implementation. Ms. Attong was able to discuss some of the

important tenants of Project Management and was able to discuss with the

use of examples, how these theories can be given life by implementing.

The discussion explored how implementation deficit was not unique to

Barbados, but was certainly a regional dilemma. The question and answer

session afterwards permitted persons to glean further information on this

management approach.

The third technical session was titled The Making of a Development, and

was sponsored by Terra Caribbean and permitted the project Architect Mr.

Paul Simpson to expound on some of the unique design features of this

type of development concept which is being introduced to the Caribbean

region by Sagicor Ltd. The project discussed was the Estates at St. George

Active Lifestyle Community, which will see a high end condominium devel-

opment with managed catered living, skilled nursing/memory care, fitness

facilities as well as programmed activities for residents on site in the club

house. The discussion explored the design concept, some of the innova-

tions introduced for energy efficiency, water conservation as well as some

the importance of colours and use of materials important for this type de-

velopment. The interactive question and answer session afterwards permit-

ted attendees to delve into the design concept and also to discuss the need

for new thought as it related to planning and rethinking along the lines of

this type model how we layout and set up new communities.

We look forward to other technical sessions in the future.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

THROUGHOUT 2019

Adams Consulting International

Alan Armstrong Associates

Barbados Light & Power Co Ltd

Caribbean Consultants Inc.

CO Williams Construction Ltd.

The Engineers Registration Board

Godson Builders Ltd.

Stantec Consulting Caribbean Ltd.

Steve Building Works

Steinbok Management Services Ltd

TMR Sales and Service Ltd Ltd

Our partners, sponsors and supporters are vital allies in our mis-

sion to promote the profession of engineering in Barbados….

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MAIN SPONSOR AND PARTNER

FOR OUR

AWARD AND DINNER 2019

Special thanks to The Barbados Light & Power Co Ltd.

our kind landlord and ongoing partner and supporter

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Representatives from BAPE attended the following career show-

cases throughout the year of 2019:

• BCC Career Showcase (2nd February, 2019)

• NCST/UWI Science and Technology Festival (14th& 15th March, 2019)

• Lockerbie College Career Showcase (20th March, 2019)

• BMEX -LESC (7&8th June, 2019)

• Student Briefing (24th August, 2019)

These events provided students with several opportunities to learn about

the industry. The process of becoming an engineer was also discussedgiv-

ing general guidelines over applicable to the wide range of disciples that

exist. BAPE is heartened by the encouraging responses of students and

looks forward to them joining the profession in years to come

Career Showcases Report 2019

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The association has seen a marginal increase in membership for the calen-

dar year 2019. However, there was no growth in our corporate membership

and this is a major cause for concern. BAPE continues to engage the engi-

neering fraternity through our monthly technical sessions, seminars and

town hall meetings which are usually well attended.

We recognize as well that there are individuals with engineering degrees

who are not members of BAPE, not trained by a registered professional

engineer or has not engaged in engineering training since acquiring their

degrees. A vast number of these individuals are in the public sector and

this should not be the case. BAPE in collaboration with the ERB will be

reaching out to these individuals in the near future.

Career Briefing Seminar

An Engineering Career Briefing Seminar was jointly held between BAPE and

the ERB on Saturday August 24th, 2019 where we addressed high school

students and parents. As usual there was great enthusiasm from the stu-

dents and parents alike.

Membership Report 2019

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Please make a very special effort to attend this grand ceremony

Our Very Special

Awards and Dinner

Guest

Former Prime Minister of Barbados

Mr .Owen S Arthur

The role for Engineering in building a

sustainable future for Barbados.

Saturday. 7 December 2019, Savannah Hotel, Hastings.