Business & Domestic Occupational Training Center (BDOTC) has commenced its 2024/2025 Training Cycle, with about 300 students registered to receive vocational Skills.

The newly recruited students of the Business & Domestic Occupational Training Center (BDOTC) will be learning in a conducive environment from the newly constructed state-of-the-art hospitality training center and a renovated and refurbished school campus.

The newly constructed state–of–the–art hospitality training and the renovated and refurbished school campus have indeed positioned BDOTC as one of the best TVET centers in Liberia.

Speaking at the orientation, the Deputy Minister for Technical Vocational Education and Training, Laraamand S. Nyonton announced that he would directly supervise this 19th cycle because it's his first recruitment since he became heading TVET at the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

He informed the students that within the first quarter of this year, the hospitality training center will be completed and furnished which will enable them to practice in a conducive learning environment that will prepare them for the job market.

Minister Nyonton assured the students that he would lobby with partners and philanthropists to provide tools and training materials for the students upon graduation. He commended the President Pro-Tempore of the Liberian Senate, Madame Karnga-Lawrance for providing the funds for some sewing machines that were given to tailoring graduates from the last batch of tailoring students.

The Deputy Minister for TVET also stressed the need to encourage men to venture into female-dominated training by providing scholarships for interested males in the next training cycle.

Speaking briefly at the orientation, Assistant Minister for TVET Collins F. Tamba thanked the trainees for exercising patience because he understood that the recruitment of this cycle started in the fall of 2023, so there were times that the Ministry heard that they were going to protest, but at the end of the day, they dialogue.
For her part, the newly appointed Director of BDOTC, Madam Yartu C. Josiah assured students that they made the right choice by making vocational education their priority.
She challenged trainees to roll up their sleeves and get to work because vocational training is a practical process, that every trainee needs to go through students, noting that at times, the training would get difficult, but they should hold on and end the race.

The BDOTC was established in 1975, under the leadership of former President William R. Tolbert under the Ministry of Labor, Youth and Sports.
Since the removal and enactment of the Ministry of Youth and Sports into law, the BDOTC remained one of the training arms of the Ministry under the Department of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET).