Dix­ie-Ann Dick­son

T&T's labour sec­tor has a ma­jor role in re­viv­ing the econ­o­my. This is one of the main points put for­ward by Ch­agua­nas North Sec­ondary school dur­ing the Na­tion­al Youth Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty fo­rum host­ed by the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of T&T (Am­Cham T&T) in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) yes­ter­day. The fo­rum, which was held at the Val­sayn Teach­ers' Col­lege, Val­sayn sought to fea­ture 20 sec­ondary schools from across the coun­try dis­cussing the theme, En­tre­pre­neur­ship and In­no­va­tion.

De­siree Gob­in-Seecha­ran, ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of Am­ChamT&T, said the goal be­hind the fo­rum is to pro­duce in­formed and pro­duc­tive young per­sons who will be as­sets to them­selves, em­ploy­ers and the na­tion at large. The Cham­ber said its pri­ma­ry goal is the en­hance­ment of na­tion­al com­pet­i­tive­ness by aid­ing in iden­ti­fy­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties pre­sent­ed by glob­al­i­sa­tion and as such, this in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed ini­tia­tive, will show stu­dents the in­ter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty be­tween the ma­jor stake­hold­ers in so­ci­ety in­clud­ing busi­ness, Gov­ern­ment and labour.

The fo­rum should com­pel stu­dents to think crit­i­cal­ly about so­lu­tions to prob­lems and how these so­lu­tions can be im­ple­ment­ed, Gob­in-Seecha­ran said. The fo­rum was the last of the five rounds where North Gate Col­lege, Trin­i­ty Col­lege, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege and Ch­agua­nas North Sec­ondary de­bat­ed on four per­spec­tives-civ­il so­ci­ety, Gov­ern­ment, busi­ness and labour.