USAID youth employment scheme proposed for pardoned offenders

A proposal has been made to government for the youth offenders who were recently selected for presidential pardons to be enrolled in USAID’s Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) Pro-ject, according to Attorney General Basil Williams.

Williams, who took up his new post at the beginning of this week, told Stabroek News during an interview on Thursday that the government’s desire is to have the approximately 60 youths, who are between the ages of 15 and 25, exposed to some type of programme to “enable