{"id":125686,"date":"2025-09-01T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125686\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:09:07","slug":"nedco-retracts-statement-on-grant-scheme-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/125686\/","title":{"rendered":"NEDCO retracts statement on grant scheme closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<a class=\"article-category\" href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/category\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<a rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/reporter\/mya_quamie\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tMya Quamie<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5 Hrs Ago<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/12745968-1009x1024.jpg\" alt=\"NEDCO CEO Calvin Maurice - \"\/>NEDCO CEO Calvin Maurice &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>The National Entrepreneurship Development Company Limited (NEDCO) has retracted its previous announcement of the closure of its Micro and Small Business Grant Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made via a media release on August 28, where NEDCO said the grant scheme was closed due to an overwhelming response and all submitted applications were under review.<\/p>\n<p>However, a subsequent media release on August 30 said, \u201cNEDCO wishes to retract our previous statement regarding the closure of applications for the MSB Grant Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNEDCO remains fully committed to supporting micro and small businesses across Trinidad and Tobago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of September 1, NEDCO\u2019s website says, \u201cThe receipt of new applications for the MSB Grant programme is closed and new applications will not be accepted at this time, August 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Designed to give financial support to those with business ideas, startups and existing businesses, the grant scheme offers up to $20,000 in funding as well as mentorship to successful applicants.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is designed to support various sectors, including entertainment, food sales and processing, agriculture, plumbing, auto repair and real estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Mya Quamie 5 Hrs Ago NEDCO CEO Calvin Maurice &#8211; The National Entrepreneurship Development Company Limited (NEDCO)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-125686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}