ICT training given to Soesdyke-Linden Highway students

31 students from the Silver-Hill, Kairuni and Adventure communities, Soesdyke -Linden
Highway have been exposed to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This is
following the completion of basic ICT training course through the Prime Minister Office.
Public Affairs Minister, Kwame McCoy, during the closing ceremony of the programme on
Friday, assured participants that government will continue to make the necessary investments to
equip them to take advantage of the opportunities coming to Guyana. “Now that we are an oil
producing nation, the opportunities are even more bountiful and therefore we are going to be
investing in the future of the children of this community and those in other communities across
the country, to make sure that we can take you along the pathway to success and
development,” Mc Coy said.

The public affairs minister stressed that the skills being imparted by government to its people are
very applicable and necessary for the country’s overall development.  “The future is about ICT.
We have witnessed over many years the evolution of Information Communication Technology.
We see today, all across the world, what it has done to communities, transforming lives and
communities,” he said.
Mc Coy said the government’s vision is to use ICT to advance society. “For every aspect of life
where information and communication technology is utilised and so, the techniques and training
that you had here and the skills that you were able to garner over the last few days, were really
about helping you to be cross-functional. This is a skill that has cross-functional value. If you
know to use the internet and if you know to use technology, you will use it in all the different
sectors,” he noted.
Minister Mc Coy promised students that government is working hard to provide the necessary
resources for their communities, noting that they will receive benefit from more interventions
before the end of the government’s first term in office.