THIRD-year students of the Art Williams and Harry Wendt Aeronautical School based at Ogle International Airport will be flying to Canada to attend a three-month course in flight maintenance.A company in Canada and the Guyana Office of Fly Jamaica are both making this all happen. Fly Jamaica announced to the media on Friday that the Art Williams & Harry Wendt Aeronautical School was able to broker a partnership deal with a company in Winnipeg, Canada that is involved in the business of flight craft maintenance and services. That agreement would enable the Art Williams & Harry Wendt Aeronautical School students to secure on-the-job training for the three-month period.

Initially, a group of 11 local students will attend the training, and Fly Jamaica would also be assisting with the skills training of the young people. Etiquette is included in the training.

One of the in-house specialists from the airline, who was flown into Guyana from Jamaica to conduct the training, pointed out that it was necessary for the students to be able to fit into any environment they find themselves.

Other batches of local students would be travelling to Canada over a period of time, once the first batch of students complete their training, and the relationship between the Guyana school and the Canada company is maintained.

The initial batch of 11 is expected to return to Guyana with experience and on-the-job records for Category 2-type licensing in engineering maintenance.

The students will be flown out of Guyana to Canada by none other than Captain Reece himself, the CEO of the school, who will see them onto their connecting flight to get to their final destination in Winnipeg.

Fly Jamaica expects that its partnership would enable the students to fit ideally into the international market, while the Aeronautical School is pleased that it would have launched the programme the right way by bringing the correct people on board.

Ms Margret Chan-A-Sue, who also spoke with the media, explained that, as wife of the CEO of the school, she is pleased that the school is associated with an initiative that is aimed at developing the youth of Guyana.
She said the school’s personnel believe that the young people of this country need the chance to explore and tap into those dreams they have.

She reminded the young people that they are going to represent their country, and they need to be serious with their training, so that investments can be seen as worthwhile and so that the freehanded approach in giving others similar opportunities can be fully realised.

She also said that the company was very confident that the children would all do well in their training, and looks forward to welcoming them back home within three months’ time.

By Leroy Smith