Watts gets more responsibilities in latest ministerial adjustment

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has made an­oth­er ad­just­ment to min­is­te­r­i­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, trans­fer­ring four ma­jor skills and vo­ca­tion­al train­ing agen­cies from Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Prakash Per­sad to Sport and Youth Af­fairs Min­is­ter Phillip Watts.

In a let­ter dat­ed Oc­to­ber 6 to Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo, Per­sad-Bisses­sar ad­vised that the changes are to take ef­fect retroac­tive­ly from Oc­to­ber 1.

Watts will now have re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the Na­tion­al En­er­gy Skills Cen­tre (NESC), the Trinidad and To­ba­go Hos­pi­tal­i­ty and Tourism In­sti­tute (TTHTI), Met­al In­dus­tries Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (MIC) Gov­ern­ment Vo­ca­tion­al Cen­tre, and the Youth Train­ing and Em­ploy­ment Part­ner­ship Pro­gramme Lim­it­ed (YTEPP).