http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php chronicling the ideas, experiences and industry of web development services en http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:13:00 +0000 webadmin@aidbank.com webadmin@aidbank.com http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=39 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:40:02 +0000 Training http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=39#cmt http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=38 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:19:14 +0000 Finance http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=38#cmt http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=37 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:08:43 +0000 Finance http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=37#cmt AID BANK ACHIEVES RECORD LEVEL OF LOAN APPROVALS The Dominica Agricultural Industrial and Development Bank [AID Bank] has announced a significant increase in the value of loan approvals for the first ten months of its current financial year, which ends on June 30, 2010. In making the announcement, Chairman of the AID Bank, Mr. Ambrose Sylvester stated that for the ten-month period ending April 2010, the Bank has approved loans with a total value of $ 40.58 million the highest level ever recorded in any one year in the history of the 39-year old institution. This level of approvals is three times the $ 13.51 million of loans approved for the preceding financial year, which ended in June 2009 and surpasses by fifteen per cent the value of approvals projected for the current financial year with two months still left to go. The primary sectors which benefitted from the loan financing of the Bank during the period were Tourism: $18.8 million; Industry $ 8.4 million; Student Loans: $2.5 million; Housing: $2.1 million and Telecommunications: $3.1 million. These sectors, Mr. Sylvester added are the priority sectors identified by the Government for generating economic growth and employment creation in Dominica as outlined in the Growth and Social Protection Strategy [GSPS] and reemphasised by the Prime Minister in his Budget Address in July 2009. Mr. Sylvester continued by stating that the Bank has taken seriously the mandate given by the Honourable Prime Minister in his 2009 Independence Day message to the nation for the AID Bank to become “the financial engine of economic growth” in Dominica and that the Bank is responding positively but with the requisite due diligence, to the demands from the private sector for developmental funding. In her comments on the record level of approvals, Mrs. Mathilda John Rose, Executive Manager, Credit Operations, stated that, the improved credit appraisal techniques introduced within the Bank, recent improve ..]]> http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=36 Thu, 06 May 2010 16:22:05 +0000 Finance http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=36#cmt http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=33 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:35:42 +0000 Finance http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=33#cmt The DOMINICA AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIAL AND DEVELOPMENT BANK [AID BANK] invites applications for a full scholarship to a Dominican national to pursue a four-year degree program in Civil Engineering at the University ofTechnology [UTECH] of Jamaica. ]]> http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=32 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:50:59 +0000 Training http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=32#cmt http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=30 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:32:50 +0000 Finance http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=30#cmt http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=29 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:51:20 +0000 Finance http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=29#cmt http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=28 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:27 +0000 Mortgage http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=28#cmt http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=27 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:19:20 +0000 Mortgage http://www.aidbank.com/news/index.php?id=27#cmt