The Department of Public Information (DPI) on Friday announced that the government will be hosting a job fair in New York, USA, to attract members of the Guyanese diaspora back to their homeland.
The initiative, it stated, is in response to the identification of a significant skills and resource gap highlighting a need for approximately 100,000 skilled professionals due to the rapid transformation of Guyana’s economy.
According to the DPI, a research paper by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) indicates that around 550,000 Guyanese live abroad. The study also reveals that between 1965 and 2000, nearly 90 per cent of Guyanese nationals with tertiary-level education and 40% of those with secondary education emigrated from Guyana.