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Cadets and Parents Grateful for MYPART Restart
20th January, 2021, Port-of-Spain The Minister of Youth Development and National Service, the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds, is more than usually pleased to announce the recommencement of the Military-Oriented Youth Programme of Apprenticeship and Reorientation Training (MYPART). The recommencement took the form of a two-day orientation exercise, at the National Energy Skills Center (NESC), Rivulet Road, Point Lisas, Couva on Monday 18
th January, 2021.
In 2020, like many other face-to-face programmes, the MYPART Programme was suspended, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cadets of this MYPART cohort, completed Phase I of the Programme, over a three-month period in 2019; acquiring the basic competencies and social skills that are necessary to develop and function in a quasi-military environment.
Community Recovery Committee and IDB to work on East Port-of-Spain Projects
15th January, 2021, Port-of-Spain: Members of the Community Recovery Committee met with two teams from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) – The Housing and Urban Development and Public Management - in a virtual meeting on Tuesday 12
th January, 2021. The meeting explored issues of Public Management and Housing and Urban Development for communities in East Port-of-Spain. The Community Recovery Committee and the IDB are working to develop projects to engage community stakeholders particularly in the areas of physical infrastructure and skills building.
Mr Anthony Watkins, Chairman of the Community Recovery Committee said:
Posted on January 12th, 2021
Garvin Karunaratne, PhD in Non-Formal Education & Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University Formerly of the SLAS- Government Agent, Matara in 1971-1973.
A Country that is saddled with a massive unsustainable foreign debt- as much as $ 56 billion, the servicing of which requires some $ 4 billion annually, where the outlay required for imports far outweighs the value that can be realized from exports, where the normal inflow of dollars from Middle East workers has ceased, has the only option of import substitution to enable its people to find employment and incomes on the one hand and to reduce the commitment on imports.