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Job Creation and improving Human Capital are Priorities for Toledo East

Job Creation and improving Human Capital are Priorities for Toledo East

The Toledo East constituency remains a P.U.P. stronghold and was presided over by late Area Representative Mike Espat, who was first elected in 1989. Espat served for six parliamentary terms and was the sitting area rep up to the time of his death earlier this year. We asked Martinez now that he’s taking over with just one year before the general elections, what priority area he has identified for Toledo East. He named two.

 

Marion Ali

“In terms of what you’d like to get done what would be the first things that you’d like to get done there?”

 

Dr. Osmond Martinez

                      Dr. Osmond Martinez

Dr. Osmond Martinez, Area Representative, Toledo East

“Creation of jobs. It’s very important when you look at Punta Gorda and surrounding villages in Toledo East. Unemployment is very high and it’s historical, even when you look at the data from 1981,  the biggest challenge is to create jobs and to even sustain jobs in Toledo East; and the second part Is to increase the human capital, and the only way we’ll be able to do this is through education, and when we talk about education we need to be able to diversify our expertise. At some point we might need to reskill the labour force to mitigate the mismatch of the supply and demand of the labour force that we currently have. So those are the two things that we want to accomplish, and those are the outcome. To increase the human capital and to be able to increase the income per capita through sustainable jobs.”

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