Education minister, Dr Dana Morris Dixon, says the government is seeking to identify 300 young people interested in construction to be a part of an expanded apprenticeship programme.

This is set to benefit young people from the parish of St Ann to Westmoreland.

She says the participants would be paid while getting trained.

Dr Dana Morris Dixon, Minister of Education. She was also speaking at the Jamaica Labour Party’s ‘Choose Jamaica’ town hall meeting in St. Ann on Wednesday.