Training Workshop targets TVET students

Fifty students from Technical and Vocational Training Institutes around the country are this week gaining first-hand knowledge and experience in business operations and entrepreneurship through a Youth Business and Entrepreneurship Training (YOUBET) workshop.

The week-long workshop which began yesterday, November 18, 2024, is being conducted by the Centre for Enterprise Development Inc. (CED), in collaboration with the USAID-funded Caribbean Agricultural Productivity Improvement Activity (CAPA), under the theme, “Discovering the Entrepreneur in Me”, a release from the CED states. It is taking place at the Girl Guides Hut 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m daily.

Participants are learning how to identify business opportunities; requirements for starting a business, and business planning; researching product ideas and marketing products; how to source credit and business development services in St Vincent and the Grenadines; how and where to access credit, manage their finances and plan business ventures. Friday, the final day of the workshop will be devoted to students running a business venture for one day. They will be expected to apply the theory they have learnt to a real life business venture, the CED release states.

The workshop is being facilitated by General Manager of the CED, Ronette Lewis; Business Development Officers, Gaidell Andrews and Nisha Glasgow; and Business Development Field Officer, Madanna Johnson.