New job op­por­tu­ni­ties will be opened to young peo­ple in the Cou­va area. This was an­nounced on Mon­day fol­low­ing a meet­ing with the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) and the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TRC). New chair­man of the CT­TRC Ryan Ram­per­sad said the CT­TRC plans to con­struct a youth busi­ness in­cu­ba­tor that would see the set­ting up of 20 ven­dor booths in the un­der­utilised In­shan Ali Prom­e­nade.

Ram­per­sad said this op­por­tu­ni­ty can gen­er­ate em­ploy­ment for around 100 per­sons. He said the prom­e­nade would be giv­en a facelift that would in­clude an am­phithe­ater for cul­tur­al per­for­mances.

“Our coun­cil mem­bers are in­ter­est­ed in de­vel­op­ing the In­shan Ali Prom­e­nade in­to a Youth En­tre­pre­neur­ship Eco­nom­ic In­cu­ba­tor. We could eas­i­ly con­struct 20 huts where we could have young en­tre­pre­neurs come in and set up busi­ness­es and each em­ploy five peo­ple. That would be 100 new per­sons em­ployed.

We would al­so cre­ate that syn­er­gy across the CT­TRC re­gion where the raw sup­plies can be sourced from the area.” Ram­per­sad said there are is­sues such as flood­ing and in­fra­struc­ture con­cerns that would have to be dealt with.

CPLCC head Mukesh Ram­s­ingh said he was elat­ed that the CT­TRC reached out to the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty. He said night mar­kets are as pop­u­lar in the East­ern part of the world as Chi­na. Ram­s­ingh said the pro­tec­tive ser­vices would al­so have to play a big role in en­sur­ing safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty once this ven­ture gets off the ground. Ram­s­ingh said he was elat­ed that the new head of the CT­TRC was not wait­ing on the gov­ern­ment to get re­sources but tak­ing a proac­tive role by get­ting the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty in­volved.