New York ‘Job Fair’ appears likely set to focus on skills inventory, investment appetite

President Ali addressing a recent investment conference in Guyana

The state-run Department of Public Information (DPI) reported on Saturday July 20th that “dozens of Guyanese companies” had already registered for the Inaugural Diaspora Job Fair, a part of a wider official undertaking designed to attract skills that are required to fill ‘positions’ needed to plug important gaps that continue to open against the backdrop of the country’s petro-driven effort to build a modern economy.  

A media release issued by the DPI reports that “dozens of Guyanese companies” had already registered for the event scheduled to take place on Saturday July 27th at the New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott Hotel. The event is being staged against the backdrop of an ongoing exercise by the Government of Guyana to recruit to the country skills that are consistent with the government’s envisaged development trajectory of the country.