JCCUL president now heads apex body for regional credit union leagues
WINSTON FLETCHER, president of the Jamaica Co-operative Credit Union League (JCCUL), is the new president of the Jamaica Confederation of Credit Unions (CCCU), the apex body for credit union leagues in the Caribbean. His election took place this month at the 61st Annual International Convention of the CCCU, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Fletcher succeeded Hally O.D. Haynes from the Barbados Co-operative and Credit Union League, who became president of CCCU in June 2017.
President Fletcher is a volunteer whose involvement in the cooperative movement goes back many years and he has served JCCUL and its affiliated organisations in such capacities as:
President and vicepresident of the JCCUL;
Chairman of the Credit Union Fund Management Company;
Director of Quality Network Limited
Director of EduCom Cooperative Credit Union Limited
Past president of St Catherine Co-operative Credit Union Limited which merged with EduCom.
Fletcher is a trained professional with proven leadership and managerial competence, developed from over 25 years of senior management appointments in the Jamaican private and public sectors.
His career traverses the disciplines of engineering, operations management, education and training. He has distinct competencies in leadership and strategic management, talent management, negotiating, and behavioural interviewing, and has been described as a contemporary thinker and astute professional. He has also added to his wide repertoire of skills, facilitator and presenter at international conferences, in technical vocation education and training (TVET) and governance and leadership of financial cooperatives. He recently retired from the HEART Trust/NTA, Jamaica’s principal institution for the promotion and facilitation of TVET, Fletcher is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica, with certification in management and engineering as follows:
MBA – International Business – UWI
BSc (Hons) – Management Studies – UWI Diploma – Industrial Management – UTech
Full Technological Certificate – Electrical/Electronic Engineering – UTech An avid sports enthusiast, particularly of cricket, football, and track and field, Fletcher is married with three children.
The credit unions of Jamaica congratulate this phenomenal volunteer and hope he will have a successful tenure.