57 more skilled youths graduate from Guysuco’s Port Mourant Training Centre
The Guyana Sugar Corporation’s Training Centre at Port Mourant held its 52nd Apprentice Graduation exercise on Wednesday at which 57 students sponsored by various sugar estates across the country all received certificates allowing them to now be employable.
The areas in which the students were trained are Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Fitting and Machining, Welding and Fabrication, Electrical Installation, Motor Vehicle service and Repairs and Supervisory Management. The students achieved 103 distinctions and 36 credits.
Graduants at the Guysuco Training Centre, Port Mourant,
Berbice
Minister of Labour Dr. Nanda Gopaul congratulated the students, and highlighted that they must view their future with optimism. He added that it is a necessity in the sugar industry at this time.
Such training opportunities are availed through the management of Guysuco and the Minister stated that government wants to create more openings.
The gathering at the Port Mourant Training Centre’s 52nd
Apprentice Graduation Ceremony
Despite the challenges being faced by the sugar industry, there have been many positive steps made of which the industry can be proud. He noted that all the areas in which the students excelled are necessary to the viability of the industry, and said that adjustments to the current academic curriculum are needed to lift the industry’s standards.
Minister of Labour Dr. Nanda Gopaul at the Port Mourant
Training Centre’s 52nd Apprentice Graduation Ceremony
Manager at Training Centre, Jainarine Sookpaul said it was another proud day for the institution, and that it is customary that before the start of the new training year, the students and instructors have to participate in a two – week camping exercise.
A student receiving his certificate from an Instructor at
the Guysuco Training Centre, Port Mourant
“We have proposed to reduce the general engineering programme in the first year to six months, after which we will have the apprentices in their specialised areas. Also to further enhance our instrumentation programme to satisfy the current needs of our industry, (we are) upgrading our facility standards and concentrating on an increase of in-plant training, in both field and factory for our second year apprentices and staff,” added Sookpaul.
Another graduate receiving his certificate from an instructor
of the Guysuco Training Centre, Port Mourant
The GTC in collaboration with the Board of Industrial Training (BIT) reintroduced the evening programme at Port Mourant after 15 years. This year 224 persons applied for such programmes of which 115 were selected. This programme attracted students from as far as Bath Settlement to Corriverton.