Grande to get a skills centre

Representatives of BHP Billiton, bpTT, British Gas and EOG Resources, recently visited the Servol Life Centre on Pembroke Street, Port-of-Spain, to view plans for the renovation of the St Andrew’s Regional Skills Centre in Sangre Grande. According to a release the four oil and gas giants have come together with Servol to renovate the Skills Centre. The focus of the centre will be to establish careers in computer literacy, catering, air conditioning, electrical installation, home health aide, welding and auto-mechanics. It will also house an Early Childhood Centre (two- five years old) and a Junior Centre (12-16 years old). The existing site, which was once a convent school, was used by Servol to set up a Skills Training and Early Childhood Centre to serve the community. The activities have been relocated to make way for the newly renovated centre.

The centre will provide training for 250 young people from the May-aro/Guayaguayare area, Toco and environs, as well as from the Manzanilla/Sangre Gra-nde area. BpTT/Servol has already established an Adolescent Development Programme in Mayaro to cater for the first three and a half months of training. From the centre, students will proceed to the St Andrew’s Regional Skills Centre to pursue skill training. Renovation of the centre is being done by Servol Cons-truction Company, made up of students from the Beetham and Sangre Grande Life centres and their instructors, who are reponsible for all the masonry, electrical, welding and plumbing work on the building. Servol now administers 163 Early Childhood Cen-tres, three Hi-Tech Centres and an Advanced Skill Training Centre.