CABINET NOTES: The Cabinet invited the Administrator and manager of the Antigua and Barbuda Institute of Continuing Education (ABICE) to address a scholarship program which the Cabinet hopes to operationalize in the September 2024 semester.
Fifty scholarships are to be distributed among deserving youth, through the Work Experience Program (Department of Labour), eager to learn the skills which are imparted by the ABICE, and to earn certification in their area of expertise.
Carpenters, plumbers, masons, electricians, and other building skills are taught to youth who wish to enter industry.
Most industries now require certification for new employees, causing ABICE to be seen as an employment training program.
The usual fee is $500 per year, the program lasts 18 months, and there are 827 registrants at this moment.
The expansion of the facility will result in even more students enrolling.
