The Dominica State College (DSC) has joined hands with the Dominica Employment and Small Business Support Agency (SBSA) to introduce a certified apprenticeship program for landscapers.
The objective of the program is to enhance job creation, increase the local tax base and encourage private investment that can expand economic development opportunities, according to the executive director of the SBSA, Alexander Stephenson.
“The Small Business Support Agency is today partnering with the DSC to deliver a much better program of certified apprenticeship training activities for young apprentices for highly skilled set areas with excellent prospects for employment, including sustainable self-employment,” he said at the launch of the program on Wednesday evening.
The program will last for the next twelve weeks and the apprentices will be trained in the area of landscaping, he noted.
Stephenson said Dominica has shifted from an economy heavily dependent on the banana industry to one that is more service-oriented, labor-intensive and customer-friendly and such program is needed.
“Much of Dominica’s unemployment can be attributed to the disparity between the number of skills trades men and the volume of work available,” Stephenson pointed out.
He said landscaping apprentices, as well as other apprentices, who are interested in the program, should register and complete the agency’s skills bank registry, indicating their skills set and areas of competencies.
Their names will then be made available to Dominican institutions so that they “can be informed of the skilled workers availability to work as landscapers.”
Stephenson noted those who are taking part in the training program will be paid $40 per day for every day that they attend. “You will get the opportunity to open a bank account, and you will also get the opportunity to have your Dominica Social Security’s ID,” he further stated.
I like that but we need more info , and i will attend . All the people who are talking do u all know how much to do a landscaping course overseas and they a even going to pay u all to do it . any way thanks to the goverment of dominica
and i look forward to c many more training like that
alas. A drowning man will catch at a straw. Time up. too little tooo late
Thank you Lord for the UWP jobs forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Still lost at to whom is eligible….can a novice join?????
Once again another great initiative by the Dominica government. For those who have been criticizing the government by saying that the government should ‘teach a man to fish’ instead of giving hand-outs, this is a perfect example of that notion. What are you saying now?! Well done to the government for looking after the interest of its people. The progress continues.
$40 a day? Are you Serious, I am a specialist in Landscaping and I make 6 times more than this a day. Come better than that.Landscaping entails a lot of hard work and is time consuming.
Read and understand…$40.00 to attend the training session not for compensation as a Landscaper…Jeez man!
Details of the programme CONTENT eagerly awaited.DNO please obtain ASAP.