I agree that a National Cadet Corp, National Service, call it what you may, is a good thing to instill some discipline, sense of National pride and skills etc, if we had the resources to implement properly. .
We have a youth population which;
1. has the HIGHEST rates of unemployment in the English speaking Caribbean.
2. has the HIGHEST rates of involvement of unproductive child labor, like selling newspapers, instead of attending school. The result being that a huge swath are functionally illiterate and lack the skills to function in the modern world.
3. The performance of Guyana in the CXC is a disgrace with our performance in math and English being in the basement. And that is among those youth who stay in school long enough to even reach the CXC level.
So what do you plan to do with these people. We have a large army of people at the ready to become part of any private militia which any unscrupulous criminal can concoct. In fact many were already in private militias.
Guyana better find the money to deal with this problem.
We don't need a cadet corp for the elites. We need something for the poor and unattached. A more elite cohort, coming from our better schools can assist to administer this organization.