Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr., has announced that the youth training programmes and services offered by his Ministry will soon be improved to ensure those participating are certified to be gainfully employed.
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr. – Photo Credit: (Stabroek News)
He stated that since reviewing the Ministry’s Youth Empowerment Unit, he intends to reshape the existing youth training programmes to maximize the department’s success rate.
“Some of the training programmes offered by the Ministry exist, and they will continue to exist, but we (Ministry) want to make those better…we want to make them more functional,” the Minister explained.
This approach, he said, is part of the Ministry’s effort to assist in developing young people across Guyana. Last week, Minister Ramson Jr. and his team conducted a tour at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre (KKTC) to get a firsthand look at the centre’s physical conditions and address the working environment for the staff of the institution.
Similar tours, he said, will be conducted at Vryman’s Erven Training Centre (VETC) in Region 6 (East Berbice-Corentyne) and Sophia Training Centre (STC) during this week to ascertain what needs to be taken into consideration.
The Unit executes several programmes and collaborates with facilitators from various organisations to ensure that the training provided is relevant. Beneficiaries of the respective programmes could receive the requisite skills and knowledge needed to enable them to become better leaders and change agents.
It has offered programmes such as the Youth Leadership Training Programme, Agro-processing Course, Night School Programme, Financial Literacy, and Small Business Training Programme, among others.
[Extracted and Modified from DPI]
