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The Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme has partnered with Prison Fellowship Barbados to give former inmates an opportunity to earn a decent living.
Minister of Youth Dwight Sutherland, who was speaking today during a presentation of landscaping equipment to Prison Fellowship Barbados, said incarceration had long lasting effects and it was time more programmes were enacted for those who had committed petty crimes.
During the presentation at the ministry’s training room, Haggatt Hall, St Michael, executive director of the Prison Fellowship Neil Dowden said the former inmates would be granted Government contracts but also urged the private sector to hire them.
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MP Toni Moore (left) and Minister of Sport Dwight Sutherland (right) in discussion with Superintendent of Works Nicholas Matthias. (Picture by Kenmore Bynoe.) Social Share
Work will start next week on a $600 000 state-of-the art pavilion and multi-purpose sporting facility at The Glebe, St George.
The long-time promise of a modern sports building and resource centre in the community is set to become a reality as construction of the 24-week project will begin on Monday.
This was revealed yesterday by Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment Dwight Sutherland during a ground-breaking ceremony.
“The work which will be conducted here represents a continuation of efforts to not only complete the pavilion but also to generally enhance the facilities for sporting activities.
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Minister of Youth Dwight Sutherland (right) and entrepreneur Anderson Knight who received the keys to a kiosk, January 28, 2021. (Picture by Jameel Springer) Social Share
Three entrepreneurs now have kiosks from which to operate thanks to the Building Blocks Initiative.
The Division of Youth programme involves building kiosks for small business people, training them and then handing over the keys.
Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment Dwight Sutherland said the initiative was a way to create economic prosperity among ordinary Barbadians and urged the public to support the men and women when the second set of kiosks were handed over in Bonnetts, Britton’s Hill, St Michael today.
Entrepreneurs get keys to Silver Hill businesses
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Five ‘blockpreneurs’ from Silver Hill were the first to sign licensing agreements and receive keys to their kiosks as part of the Government’s Building Blocks project.
At the signing and handing over ceremony at Green Hill, Silver Hill, Christ Church on Friday morning, Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment Dwight Sutherland, encouraged the five – Randy Went, Corey Kellman, Davico Went-Weekes, Kimberley Allen and Matthew King – “to go out there and to take on the world, and do not settle for having a kiosk at Silver Hill”.
He said: “The Building Blocks Project initiative is about community empowerment and providing opportunities for young people to realise their dreams of becoming entrepreneurs, and I’m indeed happy to be here to be part of this historic occasion, whereby, you young people and you ‘blockpreneurs’ feel empowered and feel as if you