Unemployment and migration

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I WOULD like to add my voice to the chorus lamenting the elusiveness of gainful employment. It is clear that neither education nor natural "smarts' has much to do with getting a good job these days. The few jobs available are gotten through connections or "links". No "links", no job, as many a university graduate and experienced professional has found out.

We now have an inevitable brain drain occurring, with the government issuing weak pleas to our professionals to stay. Although many who leave are leaving from one job to a better opportunity, many more are leaving because they had no job in the first place.

So what are we left with? A Jamaica that desperately needs homegrown professionals and talent to uplift itself, but one which cannot afford them or even allow them to make the necessary and much needed impact. How depressing, how sad, how pathetic.

I am, etc.,

A. SCOTT

Havendale, Kingston

newagebon@yahoo.com

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