Basseterre, Saint Kitts, September 1, 2025 (PMO) — The Prime Minister’s Workplace has concluded the inaugural Undertaking LEAD (Management, Engagement, Aspiration, Improvement), a six-week internship programme designed to present highschool and first-year faculty college students hands-on publicity to governance, civic engagement, and management growth.
Everlasting Secretary within the Prime Minister’s Workplace, Ms. Naeemah Hazelle, defined that the programme was born out of the Prime Minister’s imaginative and prescient to raised join younger folks to the workings of presidency. “Undertaking Lead is an initiative out of the Prime Minister’s Workplace. It’s an internship for youth, notably highschool college students and first-year faculty college students. Undertaking Lead stands for Management, Engagement, Aspiration and Improvement,” she mentioned.
She famous that whereas younger folks usually see ministers at their colleges or hear about authorities within the information, few actually perceive the day-to-day processes behind governance. “… They don’t actually really know what is finished to make authorities work. So I believe that they have been uncovered to see the laborious work behind the scenes that makes every part tick in our society.”
This yr’s cohort of seven interns have been positioned throughout a number of ministries and departments, together with the Ministry of Well being, the Ministry of Social Improvement, the Ministry of Nationwide Safety, Customs, the St. Kitts and Nevis Info Service (SKNIS), and the Human Assets Division on the Prime Minister’s Workplace. Assignments have been tailor-made to replicate college students’ profession aspirations, with future medical professionals connected to the hospital, and people eager about nationwide safety working with the Citizen Safety Secretariat and the Ministry of Nationwide Safety.
Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew praised the initiative, describing it as a significant funding within the nation’s future leaders. “Our younger persons are the leaders of at the moment. Undertaking LEAD gave them the publicity, confidence, and inspiration to see themselves as decision-makers and changemakers in our Federation. I need every of them to know that their voice issues, their desires matter, and their nation wants them.”
Because the interns return to highschool, purposes for the subsequent cycle of Undertaking LEAD will open in Might 2026. The programme will as soon as once more goal fourth and fifth kind college students and first-year faculty college students, with choice based mostly on tutorial advantage, effort, motivation, and management potential.
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