Three years after entering into petroleum production, Guyana has met less than half of the needed technical skills in the areas of engineering and environmental specialists and there is still a large deficit in relation to seafarers.
“…Of the high demand jobs, welders and engineers, environmental specialist, there are only 49.6% of those skills readily available,” World Bank Resident Representative for Guyana and Suriname, Diletta Doretti said as she made reference to an International Organization for Migration report.