This year President Youth Advisory Council will be established

The President’s Youth Advisory Council will be established in the first quarter of 2022 with
$60M budgeted and approved for that purpose.
Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Minister, Gail Teixeira made this disclosure on Monday,
as the Committee of Supply examined the estimates of the 2022 national budget at the Arthur
Chung Conference Centre. “$60 million has been allocated for the youth advisory council for
which the President will be launching by the end of the first quarter. A Technical Coordinating
Committee had been established in 2021 and that have completed the terms of reference,”
Teixeira said.
She continued, “I am advised that the President will be meeting with the youth arms of the
various political parties to encourage them to participate in the youth advisory council.” The
minister noted that the technical work for the establishment of the council has been completed
She pointed out that President Irfaan Ali in his new year’s message had made it clear that he
will engage with individually organised groups of young people, including youth arms of all
political parties. “I want to hear their views. I want to learn how they think. We should shape the
future of our ‘One Guyana’. I want to dialogue with them about the kind of country they wish to
inherit and how they will advance it. The next generation must be better than this one. If not, our
country will regress, not progress,” the President had stressed.
Teixeira said that the establishment of the President’s Youth Advisory Council is a manifesto
promise of the PPP/C Administration.