Minister for Commerce, Enterprise and Small Business Development, Roslyn Paul has urged young entrepreneurs to draw on and maximize opportunities to advance themselves.
She was addressing the Dominica Youth Business Trust (DYBT) 13th Annual graduation ceremony held at the Goodwill Parish Hall on Wednesday where 22 young people received certificates.
“I would urge that you can continue, not only you here, but the youth will continue to draw on and maximize such opportunities to advance yourself as young entrepreneurs,” she urged.
Paul who spoke on behalf of Minister for Youth Affairs, Sports and Constituency Empowerment, Justina Charles stated that through the DYBT and other support programmes by the government, “we increasingly see young, successful entrepreneurs emerge.”
“We compliment very well the work of the DYBT and in fact I would say our ministry play a big brother, big sister role to the DYBT,” she noted. “We know of such young entrepreneurs who are into exporting, bringing in foreign exchange earnings, we know of those who have been participants of the DYBT Programme, who had not only created employment for themselves but for others.”
According to Paul, the government of Dominica also recognizes that youth face the issue of access to necessary credit and necessary technical support, “and so through our various programmes and policies we have ensured that young people can take risks and establish small businesses.”
“They can ensure that their dream materialize,” she stated.
Meantime Paul revealed that through her ministry a special entrepreneurial and innovation programme targeting young graduates will be launched.
“This was supposed to have started last budget year but has been delayed due to the effects of Hurricane Maria,” she explained.
She urged the young entrepreneurs to be creative and to maximize every opportunity to develop and implement their new ideas, “your new concept, your innovation, to make use of modern technology, to be a risk taker, to be willing to change your approach in doing things, to be flexibe.”
“You should not be easily discouraged as young entrepreneurs,” Paul noted.
She congratulated all the awardees at the ceremony and commended persons [administrators, implementers] who have worked with the entrepreneurs and continue to work hard with them.
This woman is a prime example of Skerrit paying useless people for doing absolutely nothing at the expense of the taxpayer. Dominica can not continue like that.
Resilient youth.
Madam Roslyn, are you really aware in 2018 of the status of entrepreneurship and work opportunities in Domininca? After 18 year you and your government draft an article in the news media, issue news release about prospect of projects and employment and yet in 2018 we are unemployed, we see nothing in the horizon that favours us., and you and your clown Skerrit talking Bull **** about opportunities. Where are the markets madam, can you tell us and guarantee us. We no more export bananas, nor lines, nor provisions as a market rewarding us with cash, profits and possible hold up of business. How can you hep us after 18 years of you all turned your eyes and head away from us farmers and hucksters and yo9u talk of opportunities.?
Madam , please leave us alone, we need peace and not bobol government like yours.
I, like many other of her constituents, am still waiting on her report/update on the small businesses established in her constituency, after $300 000+ were disbursed around the middle of last year. We need to know:
1. How many businesses were actually established?
2. What is the nature of the established, functioning businesses?
3. Who evaluates these businesses in order to determine whether tax payers’ money was spent with adequate transparency and ascertain whether there was accountability?
Maybe I can answer this, since you’ll never get an answer from her or Skerrit.
1. None
2. Can’t be stated since none materialised
3. Nobody does, since there wasn’t any businesses in the first place but rather it was a thank you gift from the dictator for services to the DLP or himself.
There you have it. There is nobody and I mean nobody in Dominica that is capable of holding this regime or its leader accountable.
Observer, Go get her to account. Some of these people feel that given hard cash by Skerrit it must not be accounted for. Well, I pay tax and that money among others need to be well spent and accounted for. Too much Bobol Talk and weird behaviour going on within this corrupt regime.
Skerrit must Go
If only our education system encouraged innovation and creativity, rather than conformity and working to rule.
Very well stated
People like Madam Pau know northing of this process, let alone her inept failed PM Skerrit. these people live in koo koo land. Skerrit and clowns have created a failed state, no jobs, no money, not moving on.