A new National Training Board, to be retitled the Department of Workforce Development, has been created with Government MP Jeff Sousa as chairman.The move was announced by Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy as he delivered his Ministry’s Budget brief in the Upper House.In a nod to the Opposition, recent Progressive Labour Party candidate Vincent Ingham is to serve as deputy chairman in the organisation, which is to run a National Training Centre from the old Magistrates’ Court building.“Coupled with the output from the National Training Plan, the name change will aid in fulfilling the policy initiative of creating a modern version of a Bermuda Technical Education and Workforce Development Agency, in conjunction with employers,” Sen Fahy added.Other board members will be nominated by “stakeholder groups and professional bodies”, Senator Fahy told The Royal Gazette.“We want to keep politics out of their selection,” he said.The Senate also heard that the Island’s unemployment is at least eight percent, which “may or may not represent the entire Bermudian context”, Sen Fahy said.As of January, there were 1,845 people or 56 percent of the known jobless registered with the Department of Labour and Training.Sen Fahy added that the Workforce Development Agency — formerly known as the One Stop Career Centre, and step up under the PLP Government — is expected to be up and running by May. It, too, will operate out of the renovated court building at the corner of Reid and Parliament Streets.