Head of State President Bharrat Jagdeo has said that he would prefer to use the US$20 million from selling government’s shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) to purchase computers.These, he said, would be given to Guyanese who do not have access to a computer system. The President made this disclosure yesterday at the International Conference Centre, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, during the administration’s cabinet outreach.Head of State President Bharrat JagdeoAccording to President Jagdeo, this would all be in an effort to ensure that a better quality of modern type of education is delivered to children.“We need to ensure that every person in this country has access to university education through first of all getting as much as 80 per cent of our households connected to the internet even if it means the state has to provide the instruments, computers for the households to make that investment, when I spoke about selling out shares in GT&T, and we sell it for US$20 million. I would prefer doing that and taking the US$20 million and buying a hundred thousand computers,Wholesale Jerseys From China, so that 100,000 of the 200,Wholesale Jerseys,000 households in Guyana can have access to a computer,Jerseys NFL Wholesale,” the Head of State told a large gathering.Jagdeo explained that once this objective is achieved then it would automatically improve the quality of life of people,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, as according to him, “housewives can do online courses and qualify themselves right at home.”The Head of State added that the administration needed to start training people to become part of a bigger workforce and to ensure that every able-bodied person and even those who are physically challenged are educated with a skill in order to expand the size of the labour force.The President admitted that the country still has a lot of people who are living in poverty.He suggested that the best way to alleviate this situation is to ensure that opportunities are available for these persons.He added also that they must have access to a good quality of education and health and the state must be able to provide direct assistance.“ eople have a sense of ownership, and when they own something like a house lot,Cheap Jerseys From China, then they say, this here is mine and you see that they automatically progress in life.”In terms of Amerindian communities, Jagdeo said that there has been a vast change over the years in terms of their access to basic needs.Each Amerindian community,Cheap NBA Jerseys China, he noted, now has food security and competitive income earning activity.“This is a multi-cultural country and we must not get involved in the pessimistic outlook of Guyana. This is a family and every family has differences, but we have to deal with those differences in a civilised way and that’s why freedom is important so that our children can grow up and be what they want to be.”During the interactive session, persons welcomed the idea of providing computers to households, especially to those who cannot afford them, while other interested persons expressed their satisfaction with some of the work being done by the administration, especially in the areas of agriculture and health. |
