Planned government spending is continuing to neglect hinterland youth, who are leaving secondary schools with no technical and vocational skills, forcing them to turn to the dangerous occupation of mining from very tender ages, APNU Member of Parliament Dawn Hastings says.
“The majority of children who leave the Waramadong Secondary School return home year after year having been successful at one subject or two and having no second chance to equip themselves with technical or vocational skills and find themselves in the gold and diamond fields at a very tender age,” Hastings said when the budget debate continued on Wednesday evening.
A resident of Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni), Hastings lamented that while the proposed 2014 budget has allocations for hinterland development, it is not
