Minister Rolston Anglin hit the nail on the head last
week when he said the Cayman Islands has an employability problem.
We do, and we lay it flatly on the shoulders of the
education system here and past regimes that have failed to work with businesses
to ensure that we’re educating young Caymanians to take on the jobs that are
needed.
Yes, we applaud the Passport2Success programme, but if we
had been working with businesses in the first place, this programme would not
be needed.
And we applaud Mr. Anglin’s efforts in righting this
employability ship.
We only hope and pray that he has enough time and money
to right the situation.
Only last week did the Caymanian Compass have yet another
school student on board as an intern to let her learn about the world of
newspapering and journalism.
Will this young Caymanian decide to become a journalist?
We don’t know. We hope so, because she showed interest and promise.
We work with young students each and every summer and
help with secondary education those who show a dedicated interest in pursing
education as a career. We then hire them when they get out of university.
It’s something every business on these Islands should do
to help ensure that young Caymanians are getting the proper tools to be
employable in their home country.
We have even approached our government schools and places
of higher learning to help format classes for journalism, but to no avail.
We are sure we are not the only company in the Cayman
Islands working to train young Caymanians and willing to work with schools to
train youngsters.
It is extremely frustrating and expensive for us and,
we’re sure, other companies to seek employees off island.
Government needs to work with the companies that are here
to properly train young Caymanians to do the jobs that are needed now and in
the future.
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