A United States-based Guyanese college professor is advocating the establishment of a Ministry of Employment and Training Service (METS) in Guyana to help create a cadre of trained local personnel to respond to the needs of the country’s oil & gas sector and the wider Guyana economy.
Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, Dr Terrence Richard Blackman writes in an article published in the most recent edition of OilNow, a Guyanese-owned Information and Resource Centre that provides regular updates on developments in the country’s oil & gas sector, that such a ministry “will work with business and industry, particularly the emerging oil and gas sector, to build a trained and prepared workforce by providing employment and training services to Guyanese and Guyanese businesses.”