Jamaica not being properly managed — Tufton
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica – Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate, Dr Christopher Tufton, says that there is evidence that the country is not being properly governed.
“Any country that is being governed in a way that young people, having gone to school, having gotten a skill, having gotten a degree, cannot find work, is a country that is not being run properly,” Dr Tufton told a huge JLP rally in Gregory Park, St Catherine last night.
“I know that the challenges are there. I know that leadership is hard. I know that we have been through a lot as a country and as a people, but there must be hope among the next generation. My fear, my concern, my desire, as a Labourite, is to see hope restored among young people in this country, by giving them an opportunity to find employment,” he stated.
Tufton said that he is a part of the Labour Party team campaigning and representing his constituency, West Central St Catherine, to support the creation of hope for young people in the country, among other reasons.
“We have to find a way to give them the training that they need and, having given them the training, give them the opportunities that they deserve,” he argued.
However, Dr Tufton said that his experience has been that everywhere he goes,”every street, every community, all the young men and the young women are saying to you is, ‘boss can me get a farm work card? Me waan go a foreign’ and they say that because that is the only opportunity they see for themselves”.
“I don’t have a problem with those who get that opportunity, because that represents hope for them. But, as a country, I want young people to say to me when the Labour Party is in power, ‘listen I don’t want to go foreign because, guess what, the factory opening down there so I can get a work there. I can create opportunity for myself,” he said.
“The Labour Party has a history of creating opportunity for young people. Edward Seaga created HEART to provide the training and he created the 807 garment factory to provide employment…We did it already, we can do it again,” Dr Tufton added.
Balford Henry
