@Tola posted:Cane cutters knows a hell of lot more than cutting cane. Some here should spend time talking to them in the field, or travel in the trucks with them to the back dam.
Some are high school and university grads, but if you are an Indian the PNC will not hire you and if African the PPP will not hire you. So they maintain their family and pay their bills the only way possible, cut cane.
Retraining is one of the ways possible for a better job, or maybe starting their own business like repairing computers or cell phones. Guysuco had computer training centres on some estates, but it fell by the way side, due to lack of maintenance.
I would like you to show me one University Graduate cutting cane in Guyana. I know of one person ,now living in Canada that used to cut cane then studied at night, passed his O Levels GCE, received a Bookers scholarship went to UWI got a degree in Business, then returned to work at Bookers Head Office. He was well known in WCD.
There are lots of private companies in Guyana that pays much more than the Government, Banks, Insurance Companies, hospitals just to name a few.
As a little boy going to school, the teachers would tell the students, if you don't study and do your home work, you will end up being a cane cutter. I also remember one boy said he wants to be a Saddar, teacher asked why, he replied" well I will get a bicycle, an umbrella and a cork hat to go Back dam.