{"id":249030,"date":"2006-03-11T01:14:21","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/03\/young-leaders-badly-needed"},"modified":"2006-03-11T01:14:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T06:14:21","slug":"young-leaders-badly-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/03\/young-leaders-badly-needed","title":{"rendered":"Young Leaders Badly Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a youth leaders conference held recently at The College of The Bahamas (COB), Acting President Dr Rhonda Chip-man-Johnson said that it is very important for The Bahamas to focus on developing youth into leaders at an early age.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Chipman-Johnson stated that there is definitely a need for more youth leaders, especially among our young males.<\/p>\n<p>She said she feels that when a younger person is trained to be a leader, the more effective and better such person will be at executing any given task.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leaders have the awesome responsibility of effecting major changes in whatever areas they find themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She boasted of the fact that COB has produced many of the top leaders in our nation, many of whom are now senators, leading business professionals, doctors and scientists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;COB is doing something quite right, in turning out our young people into shapers of tomorrow,&#8221; stated Dr Chip-man-Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>She further declared that a lost youth is a lost nation and mentioned that we should constantly monitor our youth and develop succession strategies for them. &#8220;We can&#8217;t be here forever, so we as leaders must plan ahead for you young people to succeed us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Chipman-Johnson also mentioned that COB has youth leadership as its focus and spoke of the coming President&#8217;s Scholar and Honours programmes.<\/p>\n<p><small>By: VIRAJ PERPALL, The Nassau Guardian<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders have the awesome responsibility of effecting major changes in whatever areas they find themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}