Commissioning a Buxton gas station upgraded by overseas-based Guyanese, President David Granger yesterday urged citizens to move away from being satisfied with earning fixed wages and salaries and to aim for entrepreneurship.
“We need innovation in these communities if we are to free ourselves from wage labour …we need the thrust of entrepreneurship to create new industries, new paths, away from just ‘looking for lil wuk’ in the GDF (Guyana Defence Force) or Police Force,” the President told attendees yesterday at the commissioning of the Buxton Petrol Station, East Coast of Demerara.
Further, he added “Too many people become wedded to wage labour and they shun enterprise.