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Govt. can create jobs in keeping with their campaign promise
Dear Editor;
It was pointed out that three years after winning the 2011 Elections, the PPP/C failed to make good on its promise to create 2000 jobs in Linden, Region 10.
During the APNU+AFC campaign trail, they also made promise to create jobs for the unemployed, mainly the youths who came out in their numbers and voted at the 2015 general and regional elections in support of the coalition, with the expectation that when the APNU+AFC win the elections they will fulfill their promise.
But to date, the Government is still to put systems in place to fulfill their job creation promise.
The People United and General Workers Union is confident that the APNU+AFC Government can create and have jobs available for every unemployed Guyanese. In doing, so the government needs to not to mainly depend on private and foreign investors. It needs to start creating jobs on its own by establishing and reopening factory that was closed years ago for e.g.
(1)Re-establish cotton cultivation at Kimiba. The operation at Kimiba will involve cultivating, in the intermediate savannahs, and process it into cotton fabric at the textile factory that was built by the Chinese government in Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
The factory at Georgetown will need to be rebuilt in a state of the art manner, the operation at Kimbia will create employment for the Amerindians and other persons who live in Kimbia/along the Berbice River and the factory at Georgetown will create employment for the residents of Georgetown where the factory will be located and re-opened.
(2) The Government should relocate and reestablish the glass factory which was established by the PNC government.
(3) The Government should re-establish the clay brick factory that was established under the PNC government.
The factory can be established in Region #10 at Ituni. Residents of Ituni mainly depend on logging to make their daily living,
If the factory is established residents will be able to move away from logging and seek employment with the factory this will ease cutting of logs which will strengthen the Guyana and Norway agreement etc.
(4) The government should re-establish the food canning factory.
( 5) Open a waste recycling factory.
(6) The government should establish a plant which will recycle tyres and manufacture rubberized bitumen. Such a plant would create employment for Guyanese and help the economy since better roads would facilitate the transporting of goods from one area to another, as well as boost agriculture. Vehicle owners could sell their used tyres to the factory to help pay for new tyres for their vehicles. (It will be remembered that the APNU+AFC Government has banned the importation of used tyres.)
(7) The government should establish a food plant that will dry and package fruits. The AFC had promised on their campaign trail to establish said a factory in Berbice.
Micah Williams
General Secretary
The People United and General Workers Union
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