Guyana needs to step up education to address technical skills deficit

Diletta Doretti

Three years after entering into petroleum production, Guyana has met less than half of the needed technical skills in the areas of engineering and environmental specialists and there is still a large deficit in relation to seafarers.

“…Of the high demand jobs, welders and engineers, environmental specialist, there are only 49.6% of those skills readily available,” World Bank Resident Representative for Guyana and Suriname, Diletta Doretti said as she made reference to an International Organization for Migration report.