The Government Technical Institute (GTI) is currently is helping to meet the skills needs of the local business community and is even responding to requests from enterprises in the Caribbean to provide trained graduates to meet some of the needs of industry in the region, Principal Carl Benn told Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week.
Benn said that while the GTI was once dismissed as an option for post-secondary underachievers, the institution now offers a broad-based curriculum tailored to help meet the needs of both private and public sector institutions. In the Caribbean, the skills of GTI graduates in the construction field are both recognized and sought after in countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia and Barbados. “A few of our students have