CARIB Brew­ery and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) have com­plet­ed a five-week in­tern­ship pro­gramme aimed at sup­port­ing work­force de­vel­op­ment and in­dus­try col­lab­o­ra­tion. The ini­tia­tive ran from June 23 to Ju­ly 25.

The in­tern­ship in­volved eleven fi­nal-year stu­dents from UTT. Ten stu­dents were en­rolled in the Na­tion­al En­gi­neer­ing Tech­ni­cian Diplo­ma (NETD) in Me­chan­i­cal En­gi­neer­ing, and one was en­rolled in the NETD in Chem­i­cal En­gi­neer­ing. The stu­dents were placed across CARIB Brew­ery’s de­part­ments, in­clud­ing Brew­ing, Pack­ag­ing, Util­i­ties, and En­gi­neer­ing.

Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor, CARIB Brew­ery TT, David Welch, said the in­tern­ship formed part of the com­pa­ny’s com­mit­ment to cor­po­rate so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, in­no­va­tion, and tal­ent de­vel­op­ment. Vice Pres­i­dent, Re­search, Aca­d­e­m­ic and Stu­dent Af­fairs (Ag.), UTT, Pro­fes­sor Re­an Ma­haraj, de­scribed the pro­gramme as an ex­am­ple of ef­fec­tive col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween in­dus­try and acad­e­mia.