Barbados has agreed to train 6,000 Guyanese for the hospitality sector, according to President Irfaan Ali, who says it is among a number of mutually beneficial measures agreed following a bilateral engagement between him and Prime Minister Mia Mottley on the sidelines of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held in Barbados earlier this month.
At a press conference yesterday, Irfaan Ali reported that he had an engagement with Mottley where they hammered out a “concrete time-bound framework for enhanced collaboration and trade.”
“You know Barbados has an established world-class hospitality programme and they are going to support us in a training of 6,000 Guyanese who will function in the hospitality sector…we have to move aggressively with the 6,000 Guyanese because we have a lot of investment in the hospitality sector that is coming and we need to have the technical capacity, the human resources to manage and to the work in those hotels,” he explained.
