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Thursday, July 31, 2025

'Gypsy' to speak at graduation for vacation craft programme

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Min­is­ter of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters is ex­pect­ed to at­tend and de­liv­er the fea­ture ad­dress at a grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny be­ing host­ed by the Ex­port Cen­tres Com­pa­ny Ltd's Pri­ma­ry Schools Va­ca­tion Craft Pro­grammes to­day at the Point Fortin Cen­tre on Reid Road from 10 am.

Six grad­u­a­tion cer­e­monies have al­ready tak­en place at sev­er­al pri­ma­ry schools (most­ly in south Trinidad), with the fi­nal grad­u­a­tion sched­uled for to­mor­row at the Ve­ga de Oropouche Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre in San­gre Grande from 2 pm.

The pro­gramme is geared to­wards tu­tor­ing chil­dren to at­tain skills in craft such as tie-dye, bal­loon, cos­tume jew­el­ry, con­fec­tionery, shell craft, bas­ketry and wood craft, among oth­er vo­ca­tion­al pur­suits. Class­es were held at 16 schools over the past month, with a to­tal of 375 stu­dents grad­u­at­ing.

To­day, 103 par­tic­i­pants will grad­u­ate at Point Fortin. John Lewis, prin­ci­pal of Matu­ra Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School has sug­gest­ed that EC­CL do­nate two wood burn­ing kits to the school to con­tin­ue teach­ing the skill as an elec­tive be­cause of the in­ter­est shown by the stu­dents.

The Ex­port Cen­tres Com­pa­ny Ltd is a state en­ter­prise un­der the purview of the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and is man­dat­ed to em­pow­er mem­bers of vil­lage com­mu­ni­ties through the pro­duc­tion of craft for the ex­port mar­ket. The EC­CL's main ob­jec­tive is to pro­vide ex­port-spe­cif­ic train­ing for per­sons who pre­vi­ous­ly re­ceived ba­sic train­ing in craft de­vel­op­ment at the Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Di­vi­sion's train­ing or those who ben­e­fit­ed from oth­er rel­e­vant train­ing ex­po­sure. Its main tar­gets are mem­bers of vil­lage com­mu­ni­ties, par­tic­u­lar­ly fe­male heads of house­holds.


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