THE Ministry of Labour, as part of further efforts to enhance the capacity of the local labour force, will be engaging a Surinamese company on the possibility of establishing a mobile technical and vocational education training (TVET) service.

This was according to Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, in an interview with the Guyana Chronicle.

He said a decision was taken to pursue this initiative following an engagement with stakeholders at the recently concluded Guyana Basin Summit.

“I was looking to see what technologies are available to help with our technical and vocational training that we do here. I had conversations with a Surinamese company, they have some facilities that I think might be useful to help with our training,” Hamilton related.

The company, he said, offers a mobile training service, which could positively benefit Guyanese, especially those persons in far-flung areas.

“They have a mobile training centre that can execute technical and vocational training, primarily welding and fabrication,” Hamilton related.

With this initiative, the ministry would be able to directly address some of the challenges to administering training.

“One of the issues that we have had is facilities… some of the areas where we want to have programmes implemented, we will look at that,” Minister Hamilton said.

He noted that the representatives of the company are scheduled to return to Guyana shortly.

“We will continue to have conversations with them to see what type of collaborations we can have,” Minister Hamilton said.