Facing critical challenges in the Guyanese homeland, like our shortage of skills and lack of a world class human resource capital pool, we need to exercise creative thinking to find solutions.
These challenges persist, stubborn, stifling our progress, and our nation stumbles along into its default future, with sporadic and limited development. Yet, solutions lie at our doorstep.
As a society, it’s astonishing that we face the sort of developmental challenges that baffle us today, in 2013. Government officials look around at the housing boom and the modern new buildings going up in the city and propagate progress. But the deeper development of our people, of our human resource base, remains mired in severe under-development.
We need to see the new reality in which the Guyanese nation exists. The Guyanese nation no longer comprises only citizens living within the