{"id":93638,"date":"2013-05-27T12:56:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T16:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=93638"},"modified":"2013-05-28T07:40:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:40:25","slug":"pm-skerrit-promises-business-funding-for-unemployed-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/business\/pm-skerrit-promises-business-funding-for-unemployed-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Skerrit promises business funding for unemployed persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_74911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74911\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74911\" alt=\"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/skerrit-300x280.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/skerrit-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/skerrit-150x140.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/skerrit.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over forty unemployed people from all around the island have been told that once they have successfully completed an eight week program in Culinary Arts and Creative Manicure and Pedicure, the Small Business Support Unit will fund their business venture.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit made the disclosure during an Orientation ceremony for those persons at the Public Training Center on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He said if the issues of unemployment are going to be addressed, young people need to be given the ability to support themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because we believe that if we are to address the issues of unemployment if we are to give young people the ability to make a way of life for themselves we have to place a level of trust and confidence in them. You may have gone to the financial institutions yourselves and one of the things they are going to ask you for is sometimes this dreaded word collateral&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I am saying to you this morning that as long as you complete this training session, if you drop out, then that\u2019s a matter for you but I give you the assurances here this morning, as the minister for finance for this country that once you complete this training the small business unit will finance the setting up of your small business. I shall make the monies available to the Small Business Unit to assist you in establishing your small businesses&#8221;, Skerrit concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister also mentioned that next week he will seek to sign a $5 million agreement for small and medium size businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next week I intend to sign hopefully \u2026an agreement with the National Foundation of Dominica too grant to them about $5 million to lend to small and medium size businesses, at attractive interest rates&#8221;, he stated.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second code of apprentices workshop which has been facilitated by Dominica Employment and Small Business Support Agency under the theme \u201cBe Skilled, Be employed\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the first program was a stone cutting program with 7 persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over forty unemployed people from all around the island have been told that once they have successfully completed an eight week program in Culinary Arts and Creative Manicure and Pedicure, the Small Business Support Unit will fund their business venture&#8230;.","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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