The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

There cannot be anyone who would wish or to cause unemployment however there is a reality if more and more people require employment and successive Governments are unable to produce reliable employment then we have to ask those who represent them as their MPs - are you really doing best for your constituents?

There has in 40+ years been an increase in the Official Population of over 100,000, many question that is conservative as the 30,000 undocumented in 1983-84 are still here and have multiplied considerably and could today be in excess of 120,000 on top of the official count. 1975 we were counted at 205,000 by 1985 now 226,000 and by 2007 305,655....I believe it is said we have 350,000 +- population today.

In the period 1975 through 2007 there were 8,352 births to married couples against 11,214 to single mothers, a difference in raw figures of 8,352.

The children born in 1999 are seeking a job in 2016 or full time at a College or University but are there adequate jobs waiting for them? Very, very few will.

The PLP and the FNM have never produced enough new jobs in any single year to match the number of children leaving school annually - there is constantly a larger factor of those who struggle to find some reasonable employment. Surely we have to ask: is this right - is this good governance of our politicians?

Take 2007 - 5,126 births were registered who by 2024 just 17 years time they would be pounding the streets - checking online- writing numerous letters and making hundreds of cellphone calls praying to hear a receptive response - Is that equitable for our young people? Now many of the young ladies have a chance to be employed?

This present Government is spending thousands on the much promoted National Development Plan which initially confirmed that all Governments had failed but are they looking as they must at population growth in relation to job creation?

Listening to the outcry of certain MPs yesterday they are not looking after the interests of the youth.

It is unacceptable for the ever growing number of young women being plunged into a new financial slavery on the hope that the father will provide? $25 a week is nothing.

In a nutshell that is what is occurring and you wonder why our young rebel.

P SIMMS

Nassau,

August 4, 2016.