President, Dr. Irfaan Ali on Tuesday announced that a job fair will be held in New York to attract as many members of the Guyanese and Caribbean Diaspora to help fill the domestic labour gap.
The Guyanese leader made this disclosure during an engagement he held at the TWA Airport Hotel in New York to honour Guyana’s assumption of the presidency role for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Ali said, “…In our country today, we are short of nurses, we are short of skilled workers, carpenters, welders, machine operators, we are short of labour, and we need you back. It is not going to be immediately competitive for you, but incrementally, it will be far better for you…your place is back home,” said the Head of State.
He noted also, that the issues they may often complain of, such as treated water, are not isolated to Guyana. Ali shared in this regard that the hotel he was staying at did not have clean running water for hours, which prevented him from taking a bath on Monday evening.
“I did not shower, not because the place was too cold but because the hotel I was at did not have water. And then after many hours without, it came but it was jet black. It took hours to clear up, and then Tuesday morning, it was milky and cloudy,” said Ali. He noted that if this were the case in Guyana, complaints would have been overflowing on all social media platforms.
“I say this to say, the easiest thing in life is to criticize, and that is ok. But what do we do after that? …after you come back home and complain bellyfull, what you do after that? The problem still has to be fixed…so dont come back and tell me tomorrow you want treated water because it is being fixed,” said Ali. He assured that his government is working to have 100 percent of the coast having access to treated water by 2025.
He said the same is being done for the issue of power generation through the implementation of the gas-to-energy project.
“So come, buckle up, button up and sacrifice for two years. Don’t come to be another one of the complainers,” said Ali.
He noted that the next seven years will see extensive work being done by his government to transform the country. Ali said he wants every Guyanese to be part of this journey. “We are sowing the seeds of hard work now but by 2030, the harvest will be sweet, the success will be outstanding and by the grace of god, the rewards are going to be merciful to our country,” the President concluded.
I think it will be foolish for East Indians, who fled Guyana because of the PNC’s racist policies, to return. Once the economy takes off, there are likely to be riots.
Lovely as it is, I will not even visit Guyana – unless the sub-humans are exterminated.