RALPH BAN­WARIE

Free­lance Con­trib­u­tor

Pro­gramme di­rec­tor of the Civ­ilian Con­ser­va­tion Corps (CCC), Ma­jor David Ben­jamin, says the par­tic­i­pants in the pro­gramme are show­ing the T&T pub­lic the true val­ue of our young peo­ple.

Ben­jamin made the com­ment at the CCC’s an­nu­al Hair, Make-up, Nails and Bar­ber­ing com­pe­ti­tion at the North Cen­tral Re­gion’s Mau­si­ca Teach­ers’ Train­ing Col­lege, South Trunk Road, Mau­si­ca, re­cent­ly.

“Our pri­ma­ry ob­jec­tive is for the de­vel­op­ment of the youths. What you are wit­ness­ing here to­day is ev­i­dence of the CCC be­ing fo­cused on youth de­vel­op­ment,” Ben­jamin said.

He thanked the tu­tors of the var­i­ous dis­ci­plines and asked them to con­tin­ue urg­ing the par­tic­i­pants to strive for ex­cel­lence.

“Let us con­tin­ue to en­trust our fu­ture in the youths of Trinidad and To­ba­go,” he ap­pealed, not­ing that cur­rent­ly, there were many neg­a­tive as­pects of so­ci­ety which could dis­tract the young peo­ple.

Ce­line Mot­t­ley, a for­mer par­tic­i­pant who now op­er­ates her own sa­lon, said the com­pe­ti­tion of­fered trainees a valu­able op­por­tu­ni­ty to demon­strate their skills and cre­ativ­i­ty, while en­cour­ag­ing them to push their artis­tic bound­aries. She not­ed that the pro­gramme pro­vid­ed hands-on ex­pe­ri­ence, pro­fes­sion­al feed­back and con­fi­dence-build­ing, all crit­i­cal for their fu­ture ca­reers in the beau­ty in­dus­try.