GET IT OUT OF YOUR MIND that there is an automatic connection between certain races and successful entrepreneurship.
This was the admonition from Minister of Industry, Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss, who was speaking yesterday at a two-day seminar/workshop on entrepreneurship. Entitled Towards The Creation Of An Entrepreneurial-driven Economy – Demystifying The Journey, it was hosted by the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.
Addressing officials from the region and Latin American, Inniss said Barbadians needed to stop believing there was “some automatic relationship between the colour of one’s skin and entrepreneurship.
“Frankly, too many of us seem to believe you have to be white, Indian or Chinese to be a successful entrepreneur and I don’t think the God that you serve really had a hand in that thinking. Simply put, we really need to stop making excuses and foster a culture of entrepreneurship in the region across all classes, colours and religions,” Inniss stressed.(HLE)
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