THE licence of apprenticeship was handed over to Barama Company Limited last Thursday as the Board of Industrial Training (BIT) welcomed them on an apprenticeship programme. This partnership was formed to recognise and produce a better quality of technical training for youths while creating development opportunities.
The programme offers two years of training and study time and two years of work and training with the company and caters for 15 trainees, nine of whom have already secured their spots. The company has collaborated with the Essequibo Technical Institute for this programme, since the company has some of its operations at Buckhall in Essequibo.
BIT Chairman Clinton Williams said that BIT is responsible for supervising all the apprenticeship programmes and he was happy to have yet another company on board. He also highlighted that BIT has been in existence for over 100 years and has been generating skills that have made Guyana reputable in a number of other countries.
Barama Company has been in existence for almost 22 years and deals solely with harvesting of timber and the processing of it into ply wood. The company is the largest foreign direct investor in the forestry sector.
Head of Corporate Affairs and Forest Planning, Mr.Mohindra Chand said that over the years the company has trained hundreds of individuals.