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Young Guyanese Entrepreneurs Learn Business Skills

2 June 2005

Entrepreneurs

 Guyanese entrepreneurs

Three young entrepreneurs from Guyana are learning about business development at a course on 'Enhancing the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Businesses in the Caribbean'. They join 23 other entrepreneurs in a training programme in St Michael, Barbados, scheduled from 22 May to 4 June 2005.
 
The event is organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat's Governance and Institutional Development Division (GIDD) and the Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity. It is supported by the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC).
 
The Guyanese entrepreneurs -- Ewart Mendonca, Frank Johnson and Keenan Pearson -- who operate small businesses, are sponsored by the CFTC and the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) Caribbean Centre for the training course. Both Mr Mendonca, 23, and Mr Johnson, 27, who are involved in farming enterprises, are beneficiaries of the Commonwealth Youth Credit Initiative (CYCI). The CYCI is a long-running micro-credit, training and micro-enterprise project run by the CYP. Ms Pearson, who is 20, is a designer and manager of a leather craft business.
 
Professor Victor Ayeni, Director of GIDD, expressed hope that the young entrepreneurs will benefit from the course. He said: "This training programme will help to sharpen their business acumen and hone their skills in various areas of management that can contribute to the growth of their enterprises."
 
This training programme will provide participants with techniques and information on the development of new marketing and operating plans for doing business. Small and medium enterprise managers will pick up new skills on enhancing their competitiveness, efficiency and new market opportunities to improve their profitability. The young entrepreneurs will also have the chance to share experiences with their peers from the region and develop their business networks.

CNIS - the Commonwealth News and Information Service Issue 237, 1 June 2005

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