Four interns each paid around $50,000 a year are to be employed by Government in a new initiative aimed at giving young Bermuduians a career jumpstart.

The new positions were announced by the Premier today and will be within Cabinet. They could begin within a month and will be for recent university graduates with an interest in pursuing a career in the public sector.

Graduates will be hired each fiscal year and will be compensated for a full-time workload, which Premier Ewart Brown estimated to be in the area of $50,000 each.

However, the Premier said the plan was so ambitious, rather then calling it an internship programme it will be called ‘the Cabinet Office Career Jumpstart Program.’

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