Businesses School Director sees need for wider investment in skills training

James Bovell

 – to engage private sector umbrella bodies

Even as chief executive officers of local private sector entities complain incessantly about the scarcity of skills at all levels in the business community, the head of one of the city’s leading business training institutions has told Stabroek Business that in some instances they may well have only themselves to blame for the problem.

In an interview with this newspaper earlier this week, Director of the Brickdam-based Business School, James Bovell, said that while both public and private sector entities have been enrolling employees for training in several of the various disciplines associated with the operation of business entities, the gap between the needs of the private sector