Guyana’s fight against trafficking in persons received a significant boost when a team comprising two officials representing INTERPOL and one Officer from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police visited to conduct a Trafficking in Persons Needs Assessment.The visiting team was the guest of the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons from April 9 to April 13, last.The Needs Assessment is the first phase in a three-phase INTERPOL Project to combat Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in the Caribbean.According to a statement from the Ministry of Public Security, the mission by the INTERPOL Team began with visits to Itaballi, Puruni and Bartica in Region Seven in the company of a team from the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons in Guyana.The trip to Region Seven enabled the visiting Team to experience the difficulties associated with travelling to interior regions in Guyana and policing these areas, and to witness working conditions in the mines and the general conditions in which persons in the area lived.This experience facilitated the Team from INTERPOL in making a general assessment of the risks and other difficulties associated with curbing occurrences of Trafficking In Persons in interior regions in Guyana.Before returning to Georgetown,Cheap MLB Jerseys China, the INTERPOL Team joined representatives of the Ministerial Task Force on TIP in conducting sensitization on the issue in the Bartica Market, Arcade and Beach areas.This followed a similar Task Force ‘Roving Sensitization’ activity conducted along the Seawalls from the Bandstand to Vlissengen Road on Easter Weekend.The awareness activity in Bartica saw vendors and customers alike engaged in discussion on TIP. They were encouraged to report suspected cases.The activity also involved posters affixed to the walls of various market stalls, shops and other establishments; and brochures, flyers and other material bearing messages of awareness and the TIP hotline number distributed to individuals along the way.The Ministry disclosed that the activity seemed to yield instant results,Wholesale Adidas Hockey Jerseys, as a report was received soon after through the TIP hotline of suspected trafficking in persons in the area.A raid conducted by Bartica Police saw eight women from the Dominican Republic recovered from a house in Bartica with one suspect arrested. The case is currently under investigation by the Guyana Police Force Criminal Investigations Department.Subsequent to the visit to Region 7,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, the INTERPOL Team met with the Ministerial Arm of the Trafficking in Persons Task Force, other Government Officials, Frontline Officers and other stakeholders in the fight against TIP in Guyana.Discussions at these meetings afforded the INTERPOL Team the opportunity to articulate the goals of their Project, and to gather more information on the operational and technical needs of the Agencies involved in the fight against trafficking in persons.The Needs Assessment phase of INTERPOL’s Project would be followed by a Training Phase and an Operational Phase.In the Training Phase of the Project, officers from different Agencies in Guyana would be invited to benefit from a number of Regional Training Courses which will span a total of seven weeks.The training will focus primarily on Law Enforcement but there would also be sessions which would benefit trafficking in persons, stakeholders from other Agencies.A ‘Training of Trainers’ would be one of the Courses included. As such, those trained would be encouraged to return to Guyana to train others – both law enforcement and otherwise – in the topics learned.INTERPOL would also share a curriculum,Wholesale Jerseys Authentic, to be contributed to by authorities in Guyana, which is intended to be added to the training programme at the Guyana Police Force Officers’ Training Centre.The Operational Phase would see INTERPOL lend support to the countries being considered in the Project in their local anti-trafficking in persons operations.The Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons said,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, it eagerly anticipates the development of this Project and looks forward to continued collaboration with INTERPOL, as well as other international partners as it seeks to effectively combat this scourge of trafficking in persons in Guyana.

The Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training (YEST) programme is back and this time 300 Guyanese youths are expected to benefit when the programme kicks off.The young people from across the country will have the opportunity to hone their skills and learn new ones; thanks to the Ministry of Education’s Department of Culture, Youth and Sport programme.This time around, the training will be residential and is scheduled to last 10 months.According to an official from the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport, the programme is open to Guyanese,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, ages 16 to 25 years old. Before acceptance into the programme,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, the students are expected to undergo an entrance examination. These exams, the official said, will be conducted throughout the country at nearly 50 locations. These exams will begin on June 27 and end on July 12.Meanwhile, the Kuru Kuru Training Centre, located on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway,NFL Jerseys China Cheap, will become the home to these students during the 10-month programme.According to the ministry official, a full complement of lecturers is already onboard. In fact, some of these lecturers are graduates of the Kuru Kuru Training Centre.Additionally, a number of the graduating students will receive work study attachments.The courses being offered are Business Studies, Garment Construction, Carpentry,Wholesale Jerseys, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Masonry, Electrical Installation, Welding and Fabrication, Plumbing and Sheet Metal, Furniture Making,Wholesale China NFL Jerseys, and Motor Mechanics.The YEST programme was established as a unit under the former Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport in 2000. The unit emerged from what was formerly the Guyana National Service. It aims to create a link between skills training and entrepreneurship and boost the employment opportunities available to the youths of Guyana.Other than the Kuru Kuru Training Centre, the Sophia Training Centre in Georgetown is also used as a training facility.Over the years, the programme has spawned hundreds of successful graduates.