Government House has announced further details of the forthcoming visit to Bermuda of Anne, Princess Royal in early June.
The Princess Royal will visit on the evening of Saturday, June 4 and the morning of Sunday, June 5 as President of the Caribbean-Canada Emerging Leaders’ Dialogue, a two-week programme for Caribbean, Canadian and Bermudian leaders of tomorrow, drawn from the public and private sectors and trade unions.
Following a meeting of all 120 Fellows of the Emerging Leaders’ Dialogue in Canada in late May including five Fellows from Bermuda. The Fellows will be split up into study groups to tour Canada and then the Caribbean or Bermuda to learn more about the local social and economic issues. They all meet again in Barbados in early June with their President, The Princess Royal, to discuss their findings.
A study group of 12 Fellows will be in Bermuda from June 4 to 7. On the morning of June 5, in the presence of The Princess Royal, the Fellows will be given a Financial Services briefing, held at the offices of one of Bermuda’s largest re/insurers, XL, followed by a briefing on Community Issues, at the Chewstick Foundation.
The Financial Services briefing will draw together key speakers from the island’s international business community and regulators. The Community Issues briefing will focus on the behaviour of Bermuda’s youths with a panel of a few of those with in-depth knowledge.
Other briefings for the Study Group will follow on Monday, June 6.
The Princess Royal will attend a reception at Government House in honour of the visiting Study Group of Fellows and HRH The Princess Royal will also meet the Premier, the Hon Paula Cox, JP, MP. From Bermuda,The Princess Royal will travel on to meet other Study Groups of the Caribbean Canada Emerging Leaders’ Dialogue, before attending the final meeting in Barbados.
