Development Bank of Jamaica

YEP is the government of Jamaica’s initiative to ensure that school leavers, at high school and tertiary levels, who demonstrate strong entrepreneurial spirit and drive will be able to benefit from training and access financing for viable projects. In his 2009/10 Budget Presentation in Parliament, Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding announced a social safety initiative, the Young Entrepreneur Programme (YEP), to provide training and funding for these school leavers to develop small businesses. 

Scores of young people turned out at the Runaway Bay HEART Academy on
Thursday (June 25) for the St. Ann leg of the Young Entrepreneurs Programme
(YEP) orientation session.

Opportunities available to young people through participation in the Young
Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP), were the major focus of a meeting sponsored by the Development Bank of Jamaica at the Old Marina in Port Antonio on June 19.

The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has announced that students with disabilities are eligible to participate in the Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP), the social safety net initiative announced by Prime Minister Bruce Golding in his 2009/10 Budget Presentation and which is aimed at ensuring that young school leavers as at June 2009 see self- employment as an option for employment.