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 […]
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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 […]
Reappointments and appointments were made to the Advisory Friendly Society Council (AFSC) by the Honourable Foster Cummings, Minister of Youth Development and National Service, today Friday October 06, 2023, at the Head Office of Ministry of Youth Development and National Service (MYDNS) in Port of Spain. The Honourable Foster Cummings, Minister of Youth Development and […]
The Ministry of Youth Development and National Service celebrated Youth Excellence at the 27th edition of the National Youth Awards at the Hyatt Regency Port of Spain, on Thursday 21st September, 2023. In keeping with this year’s theme: Celebrating Youth Excellence, the Regency Ballroom was filled with young men and women from across Trinidad and […]
Samantha Rampersad (Trinidad) and Luke James-Trim (Tobago) are Trinidad and Tobago’s newly appointed CARICOM Youth Ambassadors. These ambassadors will also serve alongside their alternates Zion Benjamin (Trinidad) and Jessica Forbes (Tobago) for the period 2023 – 2025. On Friday 8th September, 2023, the Ministry of Youth Development and National Service (MYDNS) hosted the Appointment Ceremony […]
Four (400) hundred participants were present at the Youth in Agriculture Orientation hosted by the Ministry of Youth Development and National Service (MYDNS), which combined three of its youth agricultural programmes: The Youth Agricultural Homestead Programme; the Youth Agricultural Shade House Project and the Youth Aquaculture Project. The Orientation took place on Monday 4th September […]
Youth Week activities continued on Wednesday 16th August, 2023 with a Youth Entrepreneurship Market and Career Prep at the National Academy for Performing Arts, Port of Spain. From 10:00 a.m., scores of young people attended the second Ministry of Youth Development and National Service (MYDNS) event. “I am very excited about Youth Week. This is […]
The Ministry of Youth Development and National Service, launched Youth Week 2023 on Tuesday 15th August, 2023 at 9:30 am, at the Teaching and Learning Complex (TLC), UWI St. Augustine. Youth Week 2023 kicked off with the voices of the youth, as representatives from youth-led organizations like the Tobago Youth Council, the Trinidad Youth Council […]
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Youth Week: 2023 Youth Work Conference
The Youth Work Conference was the first event hosted by the Ministry of Youth Development and National Service (MYDNS) for Youth Week 2023 on Tuesday 15th August, 2023, at the University of the West Indies, Teaching and Learning Complex, St. Augustine. This initiative, spearheaded by the MYDNS was designed to celebrate International Youth Day as well […]