Industrial Training Centre students awarded small business grants

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From left are GITC Administrator Dexter Cornette, GITC Entrepreneurship Instructor Telitta Franklin, GITC competition participant Ornella Browne, Jameel Jacobs, Shamane Headley, Asante Waterton, who collected the grant on behalf of Collymore, competition participant Julius Cort and GITC Language and Communications Instructor Cheryl Ann Sam.
From left are GITC Administrator Dexter Cornette, GITC Entrepreneurship Instructor Telitta Franklin, GITC competition participant Ornella Browne, Jameel Jacobs, Shamane Headley, Asante Waterton, who collected the grant on behalf of Collymore, competition participant Julius Cort and GITC Language and Communications Instructor Cheryl Ann Sam.

Two students of the Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC) have been awarded grants by the Small Business Bureau to make their ideas for businesses a reality.

Jameel Jacobs and Tarik Collymore were selected as the recipients of the grants, worth $100,000, from a group of 10 students who participated in a Small Business Bureau Entrepreneurship Competition.

An ecstatic Jacobs, who is currently specialising in his trade of furniture making, said he was by no means surprised at being one of the two selected by the Bureau as his business idea differed from his fellow competitors. “My project… was based on furniture making. I [decided on the idea] of repairing furniture ’cause most company in Guyana do not repair furniture. [They] just make furniture and if it damage, you [have] to replace it.”