Dr. Maurice Jones has been appointed Chairman of the YTEPP Board.
Letters of appointment were presented today by Tertiary Education Minister, Professor Prakash Persad.
YTEPP is a wholly-owned state enterprise that provides skills training and retraining opportunities for young persons to support business development.
Professor Persad subsequently impressed the importance of partnership, collective participation and consensus, stating “we really have a big task ahead of us… there is opportunity to bring the country forward. We are in a bad state economically but it is also a blessing in disguise in that we can take the country forward in the way that we need to take it forward.”
The new board is as follows:
• Dr. Maurice Jones – Chairman
• Mr. Ryan Sebastian – Deputy Chairman
• Ms. Kerri-Ann Bailey
• Mr. Shivanand Ramkhalawan
• Mr. Rodney Stowe
• Mr. Shaffik Mohammed
• Ms. Whitney Stevenson-Hamlet
• Dr. Jennifer Ramdhan
• Ms. Lauren M. Ghoura
• Mr. Issa Ibn Abrahim Ali
• Mr. Darien Mohammed
Their appointments will be for a period of three years.
