Opening the Agri Investment Forum & Expo yesterday, President Irfaan Ali announced that Guyana and Canada will partner to create 3,000 innovative jobs here especially for the younger generation as he pushed the importance of science and technology in developing agriculture.
Speaking at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Ali said, “We are going to launch a programme where we want to have at least 3,000 of our young people in these innovative jobs in the coming years and Canada and Guyana will partner in developing the framework to provide the training to have our young people in these innovative jobs in the technological field.”
During his speech, Ali who returned on Thursday from a CARICOM-Canada summit in Ottawa, said the goal is to position Guyana in the world 2030 and beyond as a global leader on climate change, food security and energy security.