Alutrint
to build training complex
By
Carolyn
Kissoon
Trinidad Express
Port Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com.
06 11 06
RESIDENTS of La Brea and surrounding areas are to
be trained for work at the aluminium complex as
well as the other industries carded for the Union
Industrial Estate.
Representatives
from Alutrint Limited and the China National Machinery
and Equipment Corporation (CMEC) met members of
the La Brea community last week to announce the
residents' involvement in plans to build a training
complex in the area.
The
meeting was held on the site of the burnt out Vessigny
Government Secondary School, where the proposed
complex will be built.
Speaking
to residents of Vessigny, Sobo, Vance River and
Point D'or communities, Alutrint Project Manager,
Philip Julien said the National Energy Skills Centre
(NESC) will train residents for work at the plants.
Julien
said the NESC will provide training for both direct
and indirect jobs. He said for every direct job
created by the complex there will be two or three
indirect jobs. He added that Alutrint will also
collaborate with the Youth Training and Employment
Partnership Programme (YTEPP) to provide training
for the indirect jobs that will emerge.
"Alutrint
with CMEC had taken on the
responsibility
of building the training complex but the responsibility
is also on you, the people of La Brea to motivate
the young men and women to attend... we will open
the doors but it is up to you to step through those
doors," he said.
Alutrint
Managing Director, Renda Butler, said the Alutrint
project would greatly benefit the people of Trinidad
and Tobago and the La Brea community.
He
said the CMEC, a top Chinese architectural firm,
had agreed to design the training complex and international
instructors would join local instructors to train
the students who attend the facility. Butler said
one year had been spent on finalising the layout
of the planned aluminium complex.
"Our
obligation is to build this training complex to
train local people to operate this plant efficiently.
Our success depends on you and we want to move forward
together with the people of La Brea," Butler
said.
Hong
Xue Jun, CMEC Project Manager said his company will
assist in designing and building the training complex
and share their "considerable construction
experience" with the local construction industry.
Arthur
Forde, a resident of La Brea, congratulated Alutrint
and CMEC for their plan to build a training complex
in the area. He said La Brea was one of the first
industrialised areas in the Caribbean with the first
oil well being drilled there, and the existence
of one of the largest sugar estates owned by Count
Vessigny centuries before.
Forde
said despite those facts Alutrint was the only company
that had seen the need to build a training complex
to improve the skills of the surrounding communities.
Alutrint's
Public Affairs Manager, Clement James, also announced
that the Chinese were developing designs for the
upgrade of the Sobo Recreation Ground and to construct
a mini-stadium on the site.
Trinidad
Express
Wednesday,
May 24th 2006
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