Basseterre, St. Kitts, Friday, September 05, 2025: The St. Kitts and Nevis Technical and Vocational Training and Coaching (SKNTVET) marked a historic milestone because it hosted its first NVQ Certification Ceremony for trainees who accomplished six-month programs in key vocational disciplines on Thursday, 4 September.
The programme, which was a collaboration between SKNTVET and the Taiwan ICDF, centered on Carpentry, Electrical energy, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, and Welding, outfitted members with sensible expertise designed to satisfy the rising demand for certified professionals in these trades.
Trainees proudly acquired their Nationwide Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Certificates, an achievement that positions them to pursue additional alternatives each domestically and internationally.
Mr. Fitzroy Wilkin, TVET Chair, gave an summary of the coaching.
“For this 12 months, we had 4 areas that we determined to launch into for our packages. We had {the electrical} set up packages, welding and fabrication, air-con and refrigeration, and carpentry and joinery. The success of those programmes brings quite a few advantages to our school. It raises our profile as a centre of excellence in technical and vocational schooling.”
H.E. Ambassador Edward Ling Wen Tao, of The Republic of China (Taiwan) to St. Kitts and Nevis, congratulated the trainees
“That is one other milestone between Taiwan ICDF and the Authorities of St. Kitts and Nevis, and on the behalf of my embassy and the Taiwan Technical Mission, I wish to congratulate all of the graduates for efficiently finishing the programs. Expensive graduates, as we speak isn’t the tip. It’s a brand-new starting. The certificates you’ll quickly be receiving is testomony to your qualification. Make good use of the skilled expertise that can serve you effectively for the years to come back.”
Minister of Training, Hon. Dr. Geoffrey Hanley, additionally congratulated the trainees and praised the milestone achievement of the nation’s first NVQ-SKN recipients, highlighting the efforts of those that made the certification potential.
“Graduates, Congratulations! It’s best to really feel exceptionally pleased with yourselves as you might be our first graduates to obtain an NVQ-SKN. It is a massive deal! After a long time within the making, our dream of offering NVQs and certifying our expert workforce has come to fruition. I applaud the arduous work of the crew at St. Kitts-Nevis TVET Council, TVET Secretariat, instructors, assessors, and verifiers who’ve been working assiduously to have the ability to award the NVQ-SKN. The power of our TVET system to ship NVQs places St. Kitts and Nevis one step nearer to having the ability to award the Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ), placing us on par with a few of our different Caribbean brothers and sisters.”
This commencement is anticipated to function a basis for strengthening the expert trades sector inside St. Kitts and Nevis and underscores the very important function of vocational schooling in constructing a resilient financial system.
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