The NCB Foundation in association with the UWI Leaders, Engaged, Activated, Dedicated, ready to Serve (UWI LEADS) at Mona launched the Michael Lee-Chin Youth Leadership Series on Thursday, March 24, 2011. The series is focused on engaging tertiary students with an aim to mould and create leaders in various disciplines through mentorship and dialogue while instilling the spirit of giving back.

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Valentine's Day took on a whole new meaning at the Mountain View Primary School as employees from National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited's Cross Roads, Windward Road and Matilda's Corner branches visited the school to spend quality time treating the students to reading sessions as well as pampering them with NCB branded cupcakes. Through the NCB Foundation's ' Love for Reading ' programme, the students from grades one through six, sat in groups and listened keenly as NCB employees engaged and encouraged them to read.

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Thanks to surveys, reporting agencies, post cabinet briefings, the media and the presentation made recently by Gassan Azan, we know the dismal truth about our economic environment. We've heard the facts and figures and while they are worth repeating --- a simple summary of the situation is this:

• Jamaica is drowning in a huge trillion dollar government debt burden.

• Our GDP – the most straightforward measure of our country's overall economic performance – has been less than 1% over the last 30 years - declining for the last three.

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As part of the National Commercial Bank's mantra of building a better Jamaica, NCB Foundation's scholarship recipients recently led a massive painting project at the St. Anne's Primary School. NCB Staff members, parents, teachers, students, and community members joined forces with the recipients as they sought to transform the school. The project, which represents the Foundation's mandate of creating change in the communities in which we serve, included the painting of the grades four and five classrooms, and giving the schools only recreational area a face lift for the upcoming school term.

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