{"id":21789,"date":"2024-09-02T00:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T00:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21789"},"modified":"2024-09-02T00:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T00:53:04","slug":"15-gpl-employees-certified-as-fibre-optic-technicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/15-gpl-employees-certified-as-fibre-optic-technicians\/","title":{"rendered":"15 GPL Employees Certified as Fibre Optic Technicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Fifteen employees of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) have been certified as Fibre Optic Installers and Technicians after completing a four-week training programme facilitated by the Board of Industrial Training (BIT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The graduation ceremony took place at GPL\u2019s Sophia Training Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The $3.9 million training programme provided these employees with the necessary skills for fibre optic cable repair and maintenance, reducing the company&#8217;s reliance on external contractors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is expected to enhance efficiency by minimizing downtime and improving response times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the graduates, Alvin Deonarine and Sunil Goriah, shared that the training has equipped them to maintain GPL&#8217;s fibre optic network, which is crucial for communication with remote substations and the control center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goriah further emphasized that the company is moving towards handling fibre optic work internally, ensuring quality and reducing the need for oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the ceremony, Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton encouraged the graduates to keep advancing their careers and to strive for higher goals within the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This in-house expertise will allow GPL to perform regular checks and maintenance on its fibre optic cables, contributing to improved service quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen employees of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) have been certified as Fibre Optic Installers and Technicians after completing a four-week training programme facilitated by the Board of Industrial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21791,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789\/revisions\/21791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}