Govt will help young people find jobs – Granger

President David Granger during a recording of the Public Interest on Thursday disclosed that the administration will continue their quest in finding jobs for unemployed youths.
Granger disclosed that in 2017, the administration aims to improve some of the programmes that are already being implemented.
Some of those are the Hinterland Employment and Youth Service (HEYS) and Sustainable Livelihood Development (SLED) programmes.
The Head of State revealed that since the commencement of the programmes, they have been fruitful.
However, the President explained that it is difficult for any Government to promise employment, but it is a task his administration is willing to tackle head on.
“So we need to cultivate the culture of entrepreneurship as well because it would be difficult for any government to promise jobs to young people but the Government will continue to help young people to find employment, we will continue to run training programmes like SLED and HEYS.”
Granger noted that more young entrepreneurs are needed instead of Policemen and soldiers.
“We will continue to run programmes for youth training, particularly in skills but since we want to see a bigger pool of young entrepreneurs, we have made some progress in 2016 and these programmes will be enlarged and augmented in 2017.”
Job creation was a major platform promise during the APNU/AFC elections campaign.
Only recently, Police Commissioner (Ag) David Ramnarine drew focus on what he believes is a significant contributor to the criminal activities in the country, the idle youths. Ramnarine also pointed to a correlation between the crime wave and youth unemployment in the nation.