HANOVER, LUCEA – Businessman Horace Wright, Managing Director of Pyramid Drafting Services in Lucea and co-owner of Island Innovators Construction Company, is the new president of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce.

A former Vice-President of Hanover Returning Residents Association from 1999 – 2001 and director of Hanover Chamber of Commerce 2002 – 2009, Wright was unanimously elected by the directors of the chamber at a meeting last Tuesday.

He succeeds Theo Chambers who resigned the post to pursue other business interests.

Wright has served as a board member of the One Way Tabernacle Early Childhood Institution; President of Rusea’s High School Parent Teachers’ Association (PTA) and a representative on the Rusea’s School Board, all since 2008.

According to Wright, his immediate objectives are to reconnect with the business sector in Hanover and to identify means to stimulate growth and development of the business community against the background of the current recession.

Plans are also afoot, he said, to seek funding to assist the police in crime fighting by way of CCTV cameras. This he said, will be a team effort between the Chamber, The Hanover Parish Council and the Police. The Chamber also plans to work closely with the PDC and other civic groups.

Wright also spoke of plans to push for a development plan for Hanover with regards to tourism and other areas of business. In the short term, the Chamber wants to establish a regime of ordered development between Sandy Bay and Point in Hanover to “protect pioneer investors such as the Fiesta group and Dolphin Cove who have already invested more than $2 billion dollars in the parish. He said he also wants the regime to embrace the untouched areas between Green Island and Lucea.

Also on Wright’s agenda is the will to change the common perception that the chamber is solely concerned with Lucea as opposed to Hanover. Consequently he will be spearheading a thrust to Hopewell where there are plans to involve the Jaycees movement as well as the Hopewell Junior Chamber in Hanover’s business development processes. There are also plans for satellite meetings to engage other entities in the whole process of business growth and development for the parish.