Let Grenadians work in TT

THE EDITOR: As a keen observer of the situation in Grenada, I would like to say that this could be a blessing in disguise. Presently there is a shortage of labour in Trinidad and Tobago, many businessmen are now posting signs both in the newspaper and on their windows requiring workers. If business people are really interested in helping Grenada, rather than contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars, which could have been used to give Trinidadian employment, let’s give our brothers and sisters a job in Trinidad.

Just as we are saying we are going to allow Grenadians to continue their education in this country, so too let’s allow them to continue training such as on-the-job training in Trinidad, so that they can be taught a skill. Let’s forget about the minimum wage law. Grenada does not have that, this would allow businessmen to employ them more freely. Trinidadians are not prepared to do hard work like tire work or mechanic or labouring or car wash anymore. So they should not be jealous of hard working Grenadians. Most small businessmen can attest to the fact that most Trinidadians are not prepared to work hard anymore. Rather than go out into the field to work and learn, they feel they are too high for this. Instead they are making up time going YTEPP, CCC, NESCH, HYPE, OJT. Long ago we had three year and five year apprenticeships, what could you learn in six weeks at YTEPP.

We are now a programmed generation, programmed to go to school until age seventeen, then come back out to look for an easy job, something we feel the system owes us now. Coming out of school at seventeen and going into agriculture, it takes five to ten years. Who waiting till age thirty to get profit in agriculture? Long ago we started at age twelve into agriculture.

A ALI
Curepe