Minister gets an MBA

MINISTER IN the Ministry of Community Development and Culture Eudine Job-Davis was among 129 graduates of the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business honoured during the institution’s 2006 Academic Award Ceremony on Friday night. Job-Davis graduated after successfully completing the Executive MBA programme. She and the other graduates were told by the school’s Executive Director Dr Rolph Balgobin that success is a risky business and new entrants into the world of work will not succeed unless they put their skills to good use.

During the gala ceremony at the school’s Mount Hope campus, Balgobin told the business graduates they all possessed the tools to build a Trinidad and Tobago of which everyone could be proud. He warned them that keeping their tools in a proverbial shed or just throwing them at people would not have a positive impact on the society and only through using their tools, natural and learned, to build something meaningful and lasting, can they hope to build legacies that would be positive and enduring. 

Balgobin said only positive and forward-looking attitudes “win the day” and people must not be afraid to take risks in pursuit of their goals and the achievement of academic excellence. “Avoid the analysis of paralysis,” he urged the graduates. He added that the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business stands as a testimony to this fact. Balgobin said while many “doubting Thomases” said the school would be established in eight years, it was established in eight months.

He also indicated that all degrees pursued at the school are internationally accredited and there were also many who believed this could not be achieved. He expressed the hope that some of the graduates would return to the school to serve as teachers to nurture the future intakes of students at the school. Also addressing the ceremony was Republic Bank managing director David Dulal Whiteway who congratulated the graduates on their achievements and outlined some of the challenges which lie ahead in their new or continuing endeavours.