Notes from around The World Council Meeting.

After Concern Over Attendance, Largest Crowd Ever Gathers

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas-Just over a year ago there were concerns that things would not be "Better in the Bahamas" and that attendance would lag when the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) sought to hold its Leadership Institute and Annual General Meeting here. But more than 1,000 people from more than 30 countries turned out for the meeting. The Atlantis Hotel, which had initially said it would be unable to accommodate the meeting, had a change of heart after the Bahamas Cooperative League lobbied the hotel to rethink its position; the chairman of the league, Calnan Weech, also works at the Atlantis, which has …