Keeping children in school among gov’t pillars for job creation -Granger

Government is working on a number of mechanisms to help foster job creation, President David Granger said yesterday, while reiterating that a solid education remains crucial for employment.

“We feel that if you can keep children in school, they will emerge literate, they will emerge numerate and it will be easier for us to employ them. There is no point going out and promising people jobs when they do not have the skills or the education level to support the jobs that we want to provide,” Granger told reporters at his first press conference since he took office in May.

Granger repeatedly stressed the importance of education to the