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The ‘Yellow Submarine’ youth project

Feb 09, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Guyana may have a total taxi population between 6,000 and 10,000 cars in operation.
Recently a decision was made for them all to be painted in submarine yellow. On average, changing a car’s colour with minimum body work will cost around $100,000.
A smart government, having made this decision can organise the establishment of a series of temporary spray painting/body repair training centres throughout Guyana at which unemployed youth could be trained in these skills by professional spray painters, temporarily released from paint shops for which the owners will be compensated by Government.
In the seventies when I ran an auto distributorship which had its own workshop with body repair/spray paint section, it took on average 4 to 6 months to train a spray painter from scratch and certify him or her accordingly. Such on-the-job training can be compacted into 3 to 4 months.
Over the next 2 months (March and April) smart government can recruit a spray paint army of say 1,000 unemployed youth.
The three months of 2010 from May to July could be used to put them through spray paint training at yellow yards (empty house lots, open fields, back dams, parts of the sea wall area etc.) in Georgetown, Linden, Coriverton, Port Mourant, Buxton, Parika, Kwakwani, New Amsterdam, Rosignol, Mahaica, Charity, Wismar and other taxi centres.
By August 2010 around 1,000 unemployed youth can be in work painting cars throughout Guyana and after the ‘Yellow Submarine’ project many could be gainfully employed in the auto industry.
Taxi owners using a yellow yard to change car colour can be asked to pay a fee of, say, $20,000 to a central location. Over time close to $200 million will be paid in to the ‘Yellow Submarine’ system which Government can use to offset the cost of the project including a wage for the ‘yellow yard’ employees.
By year end Guyana will be less 1,000 unemployed youth not because they have gone abroad to seek fame and fortune, but because smart government has given them a marketable skill.
F. Hamley Case

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