Bahamas - FirstCaribbean International Bank

The vision of FirstCaribbean is to be first choice for customers inthe Caribbean: first for service and first for innovation. The onlyway we can make this vision a reality is if we’re also first for ouremployees.Top companies globally become the best in three areas:Operations, Finance and People Excellence. Our HR focus will beon achieving People Excellence, with particular emphasis onleadership and performance. These are the drivers for creating ahigh performance organisation.We believe we can become Employer of Choice by aligning theneeds and expectations of our employees to the needs of ourbusiness. FirstCaribbean is therefore committed to creating apositive work environment where employees are rewarded fordelivering our promise to our customers.Our goal will be to build an organisation with the people capabilitythat will deliver a competitive edge within the region. Indeed, thejourney ahead of us will be long and challenging. After all, we haveover 3000 people working in 15 countries and many differentsystems to join together. This complexity means it will take timeand effort to build and sustain our future.Subsequent to the end of the fiscal year we have made goodprogress in the area of Human Resources Transition, which isdelivering the very complex harmonisation and integrationprocess for our business. We have the legal transfer of all ouremployees and have made significant strides in the harmonisationprocess by delivering base pay harmonisation. The remainingprocess will be completed in the 2003 fiscal year.I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those employees inthe business, the many individuals in the Human ResourcesTransition Team, all the Unions in the region with whom we haveworked and our entire employee population across the region. Allof these groups have worked very hard over the last few months tohelp create the first foundations of our new business and to keepour customers coming through our doors.Peter Hall, Executive Director• Previously worked for Diageo in the Caribbean (includingRed Stripe) where he started 15 years ago as a traineemanager and went on to become Head of the Personneldepartment in 1994 and Vice President Human Resourcesin 1997.• Co-led the integration of the Guinness and UDV businessesin the Caribbean and Central America in 2000.