Drugb posted:.I had to school you about csme, .
Tell me what CSME is. Do so in your own words and tell me why CSME meant Guyanese fled to the Islands and virtually no Islanders came to Guyana.
Now one would think with its natural resource potential and relatively small population Guyana would offer more growth prospects. Not having to resort to gimmickry like selling passports and inviting off shore colleges in order to survive.
But Druggie doesn't understand that it isn't CSME that led to Guyanese fleeing to Nevis. Its the fact that wages in Nevis are higher than they are in Guyana and CSME provided a legitimate vehicle for Guyanese to benefit from this.
Druggie cannot tell us why Nevis, an island that 30 years ago only had goats running around and nothing else, has attracted Guyanese yet no Nevisian bothers with Guyana!
Druggie if you understand CSME you would know that few Guyanese who work in tourism benefitted from this. CSME is for professionals, and skilled workers. Not people who clean out hotel toilets are who landscape hotel lawns.
The Guyanese who benefitted from CSME are heavily teachers, and nurses and other professionals, few working in tourism. Given that Guyana doesn't have a tourist industry Guyanese aren't going to have the management and other skills that would qualify them to get jobs in tourism.
And druggie let me add more. Initially CSME was focused on professionals and other educated folks. Jagdeo, seeing that his PPP supporters had to get menial jobs in these islands and were being harassed by the local authorities, begged and screamed that they also be included. Now if some one can prove that they have vocational training they qualify for CSME.
Druggie these are facts that I know and I didn't have to cut and paste as you do.