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CURACAO OCTOBER 2007. Opening ceremonies for the Week of the Entrepreneur (SIMAN DI EMPRESARIO). . CURACAO OCTOBER 2007.
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CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 Opening ceremonies for the Week of the Entrepreneur (SIMAN DI EMPRESARIO).
CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 L-R: Gabriel “Boy” Magdalena, President of ADECK, the Island Economic Development Organization, presents publications and proclamations celebrating the week to Larry Strain, Mr. Elvis TjinAsjoe, Minister of Economic Affairs and Labor for the Antilles Government, and Eugene Rhuggenaath, Commissioner of the Economy. Each are asked to make comments.
CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 Group photo of the SEDECK/ADECK Board, the Minister, the Commissioner and the President of Junior Achievement.
CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 Group photo of the Minister, Commissioner, Magdelena and Strain, along with students who are participating in the First Annual Business Plan Competition. Far right is Carl Camelia, the Dean of the College of Business at the University of the Netherlands Antilles.
CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 Strain teaches a seminar on US Entrepreneurship.
CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 Strain gives a speech at the University of the Netherlands Antilles on business incubation best practices in the United States.
CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 Strain waits to give speech on business incubation (center with green tie). The two gentlemen on his left are guests from Holland. The man to his immediate right represented the Governor. The woman to his far left is the Rector of the University and is sitting next to the Minister of Economic Affairs.
CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 After business incubation speeches, dignitaries sit on panel to answer audience questions.
CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 The people up front are students in small business development—the third graduating class. Strain helped start the program in 2001 and developed the curriculum currently being used.
CURACAO OCTOBER 2007 After speaking on the last Saturday, this group represented the speakers and officials who spoke at the student run Incubation Conference.