Busi­ness­es should fo­cus on hu­man need and not on hu­man greed-where every­one col­lec­tive­ly en­joys the ben­e­fits, in­stead of all prof­its go­ing to on­ly the share­hold­ers. The state­ment was made in the con­text of the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly's de­c­la­ra­tion of 2012 as 'The In­ter­na­tion­al Year of Co-op­er­a­tives', aimed at cel­e­brat­ing "a dif­fer­ent way of do­ing busi­ness". In com­mem­o­ra­tion of its 'In­ter­na­tion­al Week' (Oc­to­ber 17 to 22) this year, the In­ter­na­tion­al School of Port-of-Spain (ISPS) cen­tred its events on the UN's 2012 procla­ma­tion and on its theme-Co-op­er­a­tive En­ter­pris­es Build a Bet­ter World-in or­der to cap­ti­vate the at­ten­tion of the pub­lic on the ad­van­tages pro­vid­ed by the co-op­er­a­tive mod­el.

At the open­ing as­sem­bly held on Mon­day in the school's gym­na­si­um, ISPS took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to high­light the re­la­tion­ship its Grade 7 'Wa­ter­shed' Class had with the Fondes Aman­des Re­for­esta­tion com­mu­ni­ty in Fondes Aman­des, St Ann's. Man­ag­ing di­rec­tor and co-founder of the Fondes Aman­des Com­mu­ni­ty Re­for­esta­tion Project (FACRP), Ak­i­lah Jaramo­gi, was laud­ed for her ac­tive en­gage­ment in new for­est con­ser­va­tion and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion meth­ods with­in the Fondes Aman­des com­mu­ni­ty.