‘No restriction’ on money gov’t will spend to educate Guyanese – Jagdeo tells students

Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo told scores of students gathered on the final day of the Guyana Energy Conference and Supply Chain Expo that the government will continue to allocate huge sums of money to educate Guyanese.

This commitment, he said, is part of plans to upskill and empower the population.

Dr. Jagdeo engaged students directly at the student forum organised on Friday as part of this year’s energy conference. At that forum, he answered questions posed by the students on several topics be it education plans or the government’s environmental focus.

Asked about jobs in the energy sector by a student of the Tagore Memorial Secondary School in Berbice, the Vice President outlined several scholarship and training opportunities the government has rolled out. Those include the more than 20,000 scholarships offered through the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) programme, the Get Ready for Opportunities to Work (GROW) programme, and training offered by the Board of Industrial Training (BIT). He told the students that the government is investing heavily in these ventures.

“There is no restriction on the amount of money we will spend on educating our people,” Jagdeo emphasised.

Meanwhile, the Vice President also told the students about the efforts to improve every public school across the country, the government’s policies for good environmental management and investments being made across sectors.