Credit Union movement in Dominica and the region mourning the loss of a stalwart Clement Carty

The Credit Union Movement in Dominica and the region is mourning the loss of a “stalwart in the credit union movement. Clement Montgomery Carty died at the Dominica China Friendship Hospital on August 30, 2022, at the age of 74.

In 2012, Carty was bestowed with the third highest honour, the Meritorious Service Award for his service in the Cooperative Management Sector.

In 1969 Carty entered as a member of the Supervisory Committee of the Portsmouth Credit Union and from there, he demonstrated his commitment to the “Co-operative Movement” through his active participation in facilitating training programs for the League and the Co-operative Division.

1973: He was elected to the Board of Directors of the society.

1978: As if this was not sufficiently challenging, Carty took a high jump into the arena of the Dominica Credit Union League in, assuming the position of Treasurer which he held for most of the next nine (9) years.

1975: President of the Portsmouth Credit Union, a position in which he distinguished himself as a leader and innovator over five (5) years.

This was a particularly strenuous leg of the lifelong race, demanding regular travel between his home base in Roseau and the credit union in Portsmouth, a distance of almost sixty miles to and fro.

1984: Meanwhile, in 1984, he made a long jump into another sphere when he was elected to the Board of the Barbados-based Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions, serving in the position of Treasurer from 1985-1987.

In April 2011, Carty was re-elected as President of the Central Credit Union.

2007-2008: As President of St. Alphonsus Credit Union he served as interim Chairman during the amalgamation process of the St. Alphonsus and the Portsmouth Credit Unions.

On July 1, 2007, when the two credit unions were amalgamated to form the Central Credit Union he served as interim Chairman and in 2008 was elected as President, a position which he presently holds.

In June 2008 at the 51st Annual International Convention of the Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions, Clement Carty was awarded the Confederation of Caribbean Credit Unions ( CCCU) Distinguished Service Award.

In 2007, after another mandatory break as director of the League, Carty was re-elected to this secondary body and served as President up to December 2010.

2002: In July 2002, the Caribbean Confederation Director’s awards for Invaluable Contribution to the Credit Union Movement and the Merit Award for Meritorious Service to the Credit Union Movement.

2001: He became a member of the St. Alphonsus Credit Union, the second largest in Dominica, he was elected to its board of directors and accepted the position of president in 2001, so that, before he relinquished the office of Secretary of the Confederation later in the same year, he was concurrently President of St. Alphonsus Credit Union and President of the Dominica Credit Union League (now Dominica Co-operative Societies League) and Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions.

During this term as President of the League, he successfully ran again for office on the board of directors of the Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions in 1992 and served as Secretary of the Confederation from 1996 to 2001. 1999: In 1999, he resumed the leadership position of President of the Dominica Cooperative Society League.

A servant of the Credit Union Movement in Dominica and the region. Nature Isle News (NIN) extends its deepest condolences to his family at his passing. Rest in Peace Bro Clement Carty.