Our youth: Plight and potential

Various countries and cultures and the United Nations Organisation all define what they deem to be the World’s “youth”.

Dictionaries define “youth” to be the period of life “between childhood and maturity.” (Not unlike the meaning of “adolescence.”)  Again various countries decide on who is a child, a “youth” or an adult legally. Guyana uses ages such as 14,15,16,18 for specific status. (Twenty-one (21) used to be adulthood in by-gone times. My observations today deem my “youth” to be between 14 and 30.  Even as I consider the chronological as against mental, even intellectual age.