Youth Development and National Service Minister, the Honourable Foster Cummings, confirmed Cabinet’s recent approval for the Micro and Small Business Grant scheme which offers a $20,000 grant, training and mentoring to support budding entrepreneurs in taking their initial steps towards self-employment. Minister Cummings said, “The Government has approved a budget of twenty-four million dollars annually […]
Month: November 2023
Global Entrepreneurship Week
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On Wednesday, November 15, 2023, Youth Development and National Service Minister, the Honourable Foster Cummings, visited students of the Youth Agricultural Homestead Programme (YAHP), at the University of Trinidad and Tobago’s Eastern Caribbean Institute of Agriculture and Forestry (ECIAF) Campus, in Centeno. During his visit, Minister Cummings received positive feedback from the students of Cohort […]
Youth Development and National Service Minister, the Honourable Foster Cummings, has urged young people in Trinidad and Tobago to prepare themselves for getting involved in the fight against human trafficking. He said this is a global challenge which respects no borders, which preys on the vulnerable, destroying lives and undermining the very principles upon which […]