The New Minister for Youth and Sports, Jonathan La Crette, declares 2024 to 2027 “The Years of Global Youth Leadership and Succession Planning.
La Crette, under last Thursday’s Cabinet reshuffle, was transferred from being Minister of Health, Wellness and Religious Affairs, to take control of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
His mission for the Ministry to the year 2027 comes after a meeting with his management team within both departments of Youth and Sports, on his first day since taking up the new role.
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The new Youth and Sports Minister also stated that the Ministry’s strategic priority going forward will be to ensure that every programme or project within its purview includes a leadership component.
A release from the Ministry of Youth and Sports shows the succession planning component would focus on internal and external human resource development and capacity building.
He noted that the new objective will also enable programme redirection to meaningful
workforce development, and the reskilling, and upskilling of youths to ensure they have
industry soft skills to be effective locally, regionally, and internationally.
Minister La Crette expressed that since youth and sports are familiar territories, he has found his niche and thanked Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell for appointing him to oversee 65 percent of Grenada’s populace under-35.
He added that the Ministry of Youth and Sports would be taking a multi-sectoral approach, and is confident he will get the support of his colleague Cabinet Ministers in their collaborative efforts to develop youth and sports in Grenada.
