Some 92 young people are to gain real-world work experience in public service from Monday when they join an internship programme by the Ministry of Home Affairs and Information and the Office of the Attorney General. At a press briefing on Friday at the Barbados Postal Service to welcome the interns into the Summer Internship Programme, Minister of Home Affairs and Information Gregory Nicholls said he was encouraged to continue the programme started by former home affairs minister Wilfred Abrahams, who is now the attorney general.

Nicholls said: “There are about 15 or 16 different departments under the Ministry of Home Affairs, and in coming into the ministry, one of the first things he indicated to me to do was to continue this program and we were able to work with his team to make sure that we can continue the programme across the departments.”

He described the summer internship as an opportunity for young people to broaden their horizons and gain practical public service experience: “Today is about opportunity, opportunity of opening doors, opportunity of broadening horizons and providing practical introduction to the world of work in public service in Barbados.