Twenty-five inmates at Her Majesty’s Prison, are set to benefit from the MPower 2.0 Project.

The project was launched on Thursday 2^ND July 2020, at Her Majesty’s Prison. This is a collaboration between the Ministry of Youth Development, Sports Culture and the Arts and Her Majesty’s Prison.

The M-Power Project is a training project conceptualized to specifically target young males aged 18-30 years, who are unemployed.

The project at the prison, will run for twelve months and focus primarily on soft skills, as well as technical and vocational skills in the areas of Agriculture and Bee-Keeping.

Permanent Secretary w.r.f Youth Development Mr. Norman Gilbert, encouraged the participants, to become fully engaged in the training program.

“Throughout the course of the year you will be engaged in soft skills and this is the most critical part of the program for us at the Ministry, because it will help to shape your character and level of consciousness. We will also work with you on issues such as anger management and conflict resolution, skills that are critical and specific to you young men. The soft skills will also focus on areas specific to men including men’s health and men’s role in the family”.

Minister w.r.f Youth Development Hon. Kate Lewis, in addressing the twenty-five young men, emphasized the importance of rehabilitation.

“The concept of prison is also to rehabilitate our prisoners, the basic idea, is that people who have been incarcerated, will never like to be sent back to prison, and that is why we are here to ensure that lives are transformed and that the participants make better lifestyle decisions. Going forward.

Commissioner of Prison Mr. John Mitchell, encouraged the men to remain committed to the pledges made, towards becoming success stories.

“You have to understand it starts with you, no one else cannot do it for you, and not even God can do it for you. The program was designed by men for men and I want you to make every use of this opportunity.

One of the Registered Participant and inmate at Her Majesty’s Prison, pledged their cooperation towards making the program a success.

“This is a time for turning our lives around, and becoming productive citizens in our tri-island state. I want to assure our commissioner and the Ministry of Youth, that the inmates in this project, would make full use of the opportunity, granted to us”. July 6^th 2020, marked the start of Developmental Training sessions for the registered participants. It will run up to August 27^th.