A meeting held on Tuesday March 22 at the Passage to Asia Restaurant in Trinidad and Tobago and addressed by Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud, saw the Guyana Government official make a spirited appeal to Guyanese in the twin-island Republic to return home to help address what he said was the country’s urgent need for 100,000 workers, according to a report in the Trinidad Guardian of Wednesday March 23.
Last Tuesday’s meeting, according to the Guardian came on the back of a broader appeal to Guyanese in the diaspora to consider returning home to build their country in the wake of the promised transformation envisaged in the light of the country’s substantial oil discoveries.
The report says that Persaud, who held the Agriculture and Natural Resources portfolios in the Bharrat Jagdeo administration was one of a number of officials of the current Irfaan Ali government to address the meeting on Tuesday.