Across the range of skills to drive the country’s development it has become painfully apparent that the scarcity that we are continue to experience is impeding the pace of our development and that unless urgent corrective measures are put in place there is a very real chance that we could be left behind.
The dilemma of scarce skills extends across the sectors and while, over the years, government, to a greater extent than the private sector has invested heavily in training, both at home and abroad, across a range of skills and disciplines, these days, both of the sectors are feeling the scarce skills pinch.
Up to several months ago Marlon Joseph was a young Public Servant with ambitions of upward mobility. It was not long before he begun to experience the suffocating effects of bureaucracy, not least what, frequently, is the sloth at which it moves and its proclivity for malfunction. He surmised that the deadening effect of the environment in a ‘government office’ was, in large measure, a function of a chronic lack of training. People may have had the good fortune of ‘being employed,’ but what, sometimes, is the arbitrariness with which public servants are assigned, it was patently evident that they were poorly trained or sometimes had received no training at all) for the tasks that they were required to routinely perform.
