Dear Editor,
While leafing through the July 24, 2013 Observer, I came across an article entitled "I hope the IMF people are reading the Observer." While reading this article, you can imagine my outrage at the discovery of the planned frivolity of the spending by the minister of youth and culture, and by extension, the Government.
Why spend $100 million on Emancipation and Independence celebrations that the majority of people will be observing from their living room couches?
Today, in our country, children are spending six years in primary school and leaving illiterate or with reading/writing/reasoning skills well below average. This money could have been better spent developing after-school programmes or more innovative, interactive programmes to better integrate and develop the mindset of children for this rapidly advancing world. A child today who can't read or navigate in this world is one left behind and in the dark.
Who could possibly approve this spending in this worsening economic atmosphere, when there are children out in the streets, begging and selling to earn money?
How about using this $100 million to create jobs, or make sensible investments in our country? Why not subsidise university education more, since the majority of jobs available require a first degree?
If the future of a country isn't uplifted by its Government, it suffers by the hands of it.
Chantal Marriott
c.k.m92@hotmail.com
Proud, triumphant and free?
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While leafing through the July 24, 2013 Observer, I came across an article entitled "I hope the IMF people are reading the Observer." While reading this article, you can imagine my outrage at the discovery of the planned frivolity of the spending by the minister of youth and culture, and by extension, the Government.
Why spend $100 million on Emancipation and Independence celebrations that the majority of people will be observing from their living room couches?
Today, in our country, children are spending six years in primary school and leaving illiterate or with reading/writing/reasoning skills well below average. This money could have been better spent developing after-school programmes or more innovative, interactive programmes to better integrate and develop the mindset of children for this rapidly advancing world. A child today who can't read or navigate in this world is one left behind and in the dark.
Who could possibly approve this spending in this worsening economic atmosphere, when there are children out in the streets, begging and selling to earn money?
How about using this $100 million to create jobs, or make sensible investments in our country? Why not subsidise university education more, since the majority of jobs available require a first degree?
If the future of a country isn't uplifted by its Government, it suffers by the hands of it.
Chantal Marriott
c.k.m92@hotmail.com
Proud, triumphant and free?
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