KEVIN HERRERA DEPARTS FROM BCCI AFTER 11 YEARS

October 14, 2008

For the past 11 years he has been at the helm of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry but effective the end of the month Kevin Herrera will be moving on from the post of C-E-O. Love News spoke with Herrera who shared with us ways the organization grew under his leadership.

Kevin Herrera; CEO, Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry

“I think we have made some significant contributions with respect to constitutional and legislative reforms. We were some of the champions of the reform process in 2005 especially with all the turmoil and that type of thing that had existed during that time and I think throughout that time we were clear in terms of what we were achieving and we were clear in what the issues were and the problems were and I think we did a lot in terms of fixing and addressing some of the shortfalls that we felt existed with a number of the legislation. One good thing that came out of that process and probably the largest one was the Finance and Audit Reform Act of 2005 and as you know we heard a lot of that act over the past year or more with respect to holding government to operate properly and various provisions that we had brought in. but along with that, I think we had also brought the chamber to financial sustainability. It was a huge issue when I got here, in fact we had just began the process of trying to pull things together and bring our finances back to order and bringing members on board and start having a significant presence in the business community and in the Belizean environment in general. I think we have achieve that, we have done a lot in terms that the chamber is completely sustainable. We pay for our entire operations out of internally generated revenues and I think we have a strong presence in this country as demonstrated over the years.”

Herrera said for the next couple years he will be involved in the oil industry.

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