Twen­ty-three stu­dents from Ma­yaro and en­vi­rons re­ceived cer­tifi­cates in Build­ing Con­struc­tion Tech­nol­o­gy from the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Skills Cen­ter (NESC).
Ac­cord­ing to a press re­lease from NESC grad­u­ates of the hands-on pro­gramme learned the foun­da­tions of build­ing con­struc­tion over four months at the NESC’s Ma­yaro Cam­pus. 
The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from NESC:

Twen­ty-three stu­dents from Ma­yaro and en­vi­rons re­ceived cer­tifi­cates in Build­ing Con­struc­tion Tech­nol­o­gy from the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Skills Cen­ter (NESC) in May 2022.

Grad­u­ates of the hands-on pro­gramme learned the foun­da­tions of build­ing con­struc­tion over four months at the NESC’s Ma­yaro Cam­pus. The cur­ricu­lum cov­ered ma­son­ry, car­pen­try, tiling, plumb­ing, steel bend­ing and fab­ri­ca­tion, blue­print read­ing and mea­sure­ment, and job safe­ty.

Tak­ing in­to con­sid­er­a­tion the mar­ket needs of Ma­yaro and en­vi­rons, the NESC de­vel­oped the BCT pro­gramme to en­sure that par­tic­i­pants de­vel­oped the in-de­mand skills for the area so that they could ac­cess em­ploy­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties or even start their own busi­ness­es.

At the grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny held on May 26th, In­dra Ram­roop-Ramkissoon urged the grad­u­ates to put their skills to pro­duc­tive use. “Don’t stick your skills in a draw. No­body can take them from you. Use your skills. Prac­tise your skills. Earn a liv­ing from your skills,” she said.

Peren­co Trinidad & To­ba­go Ltd, one of the NESC’s long­time cor­po­rate part­ners, ful­ly spon­sored the train­ing pro­gramme for res­i­dents as part of its cor­po­rate so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty ini­tia­tives. The pro­gramme’s Most Out­stand­ing Stu­dent awardee, Joeneil Halls ex­pressed his grat­i­tude to Peren­co and NESC for “help­ing the youths” and plead­ed with both in­sti­tu­tions to con­tin­ue their in­vest­ments in the lives of Ma­yaro’s youth.