Women must train for non-traditional jobs

GUYANESE WOMEN MUST SPECIALISE IN NON-TRADITIONAL FIELDS, Labour
Minister Joseph Hamilton said.
“I want when I am doing heavy-duty-equipment operator programme in Region Two
(Pomeroon/Supenaam), there are women in the programme… that is where the money i. I am
saying to women, you have to start thinking differently, and I am encouraging people, who do
training, in the Region, every programme that is supposed to be male-dominated, they have to
ensure women are in the programme,” Hamilton said.
Hamilton made the disclosure during the recent cabinet outreach in the region where he
challenged women to emancipate themselves from traditional thinking which tie them to
particular vocations, long-believed suitable only for females.
The minister is seeking young persons, especially women, to be multi-skilled by taking
advantage of his ministry’s Board of Industrial Training (BIT) training schemes targeting some
35,000 youths.
Last month, the labour ministry allocated a plot of land in Mahdia, Region Eight
(Potaro/Siparuni) to construct the town’s first-ever industrial training centre.