Deyalsingh: Take advantage of opportunities

Deyalsingh was speaking on Wednesday at the Metal Industries Company Limited (MIC) Administrative Professional Symposium titled Unlocking Your True Professional Potential at the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, UWI Campus, St Augustine.

The symposium was launched in 2008 in commemoration of Administrative Professionals Week, and this year’s theme is Excellence, No Exceptions.

Quoting from Proverbs 12:11, Deyalsingh said those who work the land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.

“Let us not take the land literally, lets just say those who work, whether you work the land or in the office or you work for yourself, washing cars for a living, will have abundant food. That means you will not go without.

And don’t take abundant food literally. Those who work will have a sense of purpose. But those who chase fantasies, blame others for their circumstance, depend on the government of the day for their daily bread, have no sense.” He continued, “What the government will do, is put everything in your path to take advantage of opportunities so that you can work. Free education, subsidised electricity, subsidised water, free health care.

Take advantage of the opportunities so that you can work the land.” Deyalsingh told his audience they must have a plan and execute the plan in order for the entire1.3 million citizens here to excel.

He said the duties administrative professionals do go beyond the value of their pay check.

“We are in the business of building a nation.” Other speakers included chairman MIC-IT Professor Clement Imbert, former education minister Hazel Manning, dean at the Faculty of Law, UWI Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antonie and motivational speakers Luke Quamina and Akosua Dardaine Edwards.