GUYSUCO selects 41 for technical training

THE GUYSUCO TRAINING CENTRE in East Berbice/Corentyne (Region Six) Monday
accepted 41 of 214 applicants as apprentices at is Port Mourant headquarters after they
successfully completes a series of intense grilling from its authorities.
According to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYUCO) the trainees were selected from the
four operating sugar estates. A release from the sweetener industry said 11 of the recruits were
drawn from communities contiguous to the Rose Hall Estate expected to resume operation by
October next year.

From the other 30 recruits eight were sponsored by the Uitvlugt Estate in Essequibo Islands/West
Demerara), with the remaining 22 split between Blairmont Estate (10) and Albion/ Port Mourant
Estate (12) also in Region Six.
Mr. Jainarine Sookpaul, manager attached to the Port Mourant estate congratulated the new
apprentices, urging them to uphold the traditional high academic and behavioural standards of
the training institution.
“You are fortunate as you are the chosen ones. This institution stands on the pillars of: tradition,
honor and discipline. Over the years, the training centre has earned a reputation of delivering
individuals of high discipline,” Sookpaul said.
He cautioned that the standards will be intensified for their safety because of the ongoing global
COVID-19 pandemic
“We have been conducting face-to-face training since February 2021 and have not registered any
COVID 19 positive case here at the centre. We intend to continue to follow the established
protocols and all persons joining the Training Centre must be fully vaccinated,” he counselled.
“We will provide support to ensure all our apprentices and staff are fully vaccinated,” he assured.

Meanwhile, GUYSUCO’s Compensation and Business Development Manager (ag), Shurwyn
Stewart, lauded the families of the trainees for forging ahead with their development despite the
global mayhem wreaked by the highly contagious and deadly disease, first detected in Wuhan,
China towards the end of 2019.
“We wish to thank the Government of Guyana for their investment in GUYSUCO and the
training centre. But the success of each recruit is a collective responsibility of everyone,
inclusive parent and importantly the recruits themselves who must maintain a high level of
discipline and commitment,” Stewart said.
Sally Shamsher, 17, and the lone female apprentice, who hails from Kingsley Village, West
Coast Berbice, is sponsored by Blairmont Estate. She looks forward to fulfilling her dreams of
becoming a mechanical engineer.
In 1957, Bookers Sugar Estates in 1957 established the Port Mourant Apprentice Training Centre
(PMTC) to provide young Guyanese with technical skills. Since then, some 3,399 young persons
have been trained therein industrial electrical installation; engineering; Fitting & Machining; and
factory process instrumentation.
They have also studied heavy and light automotive engineering; automotive electrical
engineering, and factory process sugar boiling.