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Amerindians must broaden their economic activities

Apr 27, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
I believe that Mr. Sydney Allicock should be commended that, unlike so many letter writers and feature writers in the press, and despite his obvious disenchantment with the PPP/C, the President and what he said at the opening of the Lethem rodeo, he has offered some concrete proposals on what need to be implemented in the Amerindian communities to achieve their progress in the various aspects of their development.
However, I would like to take issue with his rejection of the component in the Amerindian Development Fund in the budget proposals which is geared to provide entrepreneurial training to young Amerindians, in keeping with similar programmes on the coastland.  This programme must have been formulated with the aim of equipping the young people in our interior locations to advance into the field of business so that they can make themselves and their families and communities somewhat independent.
I must say that Amerindians must now think seriously of broadening their economic activities from the self-sustenance nature of the past, which mostly centred around their homestead agriculture, and think about moving into commerce on a broad scale.  This would enable their communities to become self-sufficient and more able to contribute to the revenues which finance the various governmental institutions in their communities, thus elevating them into a more respected position among our citizenry.
I do hope that Mr. Allicock will see the wisdom in this effort and use the broad outlook he has displayed to institute this programme.
 Roy Paul,

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