The Vice President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, on Monday urged fishermen to consider alternative means of income within other sectors to boost their livelihoods when they are not plying their trade at sea.<\/p>\n
The Vice President made the suggestion while speaking at the distribution of the fishermen\u2019s one-off $150,000 cash grant at Lusignan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to change; our country will change too and if we stick with one thing then the people who are going to make the most progress are those who are willing to change.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can start small businesses, you have to explore that sort of gap with us\u2026 but if you don\u2019t take this step and you complain and sit down at the seaside or the corner shop and only complain, things will pass by you, development will pass by,\u201d the Vice President said.<\/p>\n
He acknowledged that fishermen go out to sea periodically and not every trip is successful.<\/p>\n
To avoid returning without money and having to ponder their responsibility at home, Jagdeo suggested \u201cIt helps if you can have another profession\u2026 You have to have something else to fall back on to. You can continue with the fishing, I\u2019m not saying stop any fishing but you have other things you can fall back on. It is not very hard to go in and get trained on these things.\u201d<\/p>\n
He noted that there are many existing vacancies in several sectors including the oil and gas, hospitality, private sector and housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":4,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[1349],"region":[30],"source":[9197],"country":[2494],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/97795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/97795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97796,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/97795\/revisions\/97796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97795"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=97795"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=97795"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=97795"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=97795"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=97795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}