President David Granger yesterday sounded a call for a national shift in youth development, which he said must place emphasis on education to ensure that young people are prepared for employment.
Speaking at the 17th awards ceremony for the President’s Youth Award: Republic of Guyana (PYARG) at the National Cultural Centre yesterday, Granger said the shift is crucial for the country’s survival and argued that education is essential in order to provide young people with the knowledge they need to seek and secure jobs. “It is increasingly clear, however, that while we may be graduating thousands of persons every year from various youth development programmes, many have been able to find satisfactory employment. Many remain and slide into unemployment,” he said, while noting that although Guyana suffers from high unemployment and school dropout rates, the primary education dropout rate was at a “staggering height.”
“Education, employment, and entrepreneurship must be emphasised as a
