President announces skills development programme for Belladrum

Residents of Belladrum, West Coast Berbice will soon benefit from a skills development programme.

This was disclosed yesterday by President Irfaan Ali during a visit to the community, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.

 “These are not necessarily persons who are from an academic stream or persons who would have to get certain qualifications to get into the technical institutes or the university…These are persons who may not have the qualifications but who we want to train technically to participate in the different sectors of the economy so we will be coming back to these communities as soon as that programme is launched,” the president stated.