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BYS to expand
9/17/2012
The Ministry of Family, Culture, Sports and Youth is presently exploring ways and means of decentralising the Barbados Youth Service (BYS) so that it can become accessible to more youths across Barbados.
This was revealed by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Irvine Best, as he gave the featured address at the graduation ceremony for the BYS trainees, who would have joined in October of last year.
“Indeed the Ministry is committed to offering opportunities such as those which you have experienced over the last 12 months and even more programmes, to all the youth in Barbados,” he told graduands gathered at the Wildey Gymnasium on Saturday evening.
Explaining statistics have shown that 85 per cent of each intake into the BYS has successfully completed the programme and graduated, he expressed the need for the programme be restructured on a wider scale, in order to ‘capture’ the interest of many more of the Island’s youths.
Best stated: “Expansion of the Barbados Youth Service is therefore one of the implementation strategies of the National Youth policy on which the Ministry of Family, Culture, Sports and Youth has been collaborating with youth over the past year or so. Indeed, we in the Ministry are eager to implement this policy, as we are sure it will significantly improve the lives of many young people.”
The Permanent Secretary congratulated the graduands and lauded them for their excellent work and reports from the job attachment phase of the one-year programme. During his speech he explained that the Ministry had provided the impetus for which support can be provided and, in that light, he urged the graduands to get involved in other organisations that will continue to strengthen them, in whichever skills they wish to further pursue. (AC)
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