Local maritime safety training entity gearing to meet key need in the oil and gas sector

Training at sea

The current national preoccupation with Guyana’s recent significant oil find and its potential for driving an economic takeoff has, for several months now, been the focus of vigorous public and political discourse.

Local private sector entities have been contemplating the provision of such services to the sector as they can, though the oil discovery has caught the country in a condition of scarce sector-specific skills and facing the very real prospect of having to rely on imported skills mostly from North America and to a lesser extent from the Caribbean.

At the regional level, Minister of Energy and Mines Raphael Trotman told Stabroek Business recently that the Government