“PM: Unemployment breeding crime” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “A month after declaring that his government created 32,000 jobs over his term, Prime Minister Perry Christie suggested unemployment has bred the criminality the country now faces.

‘We must recognize that there is a great danger in our country of young men in particular, who are evolving in a way where they are faced with levels of desperation arising out of unemployment,’ Christie said at the opening of the Bahamas Union of Teachers’ first Educational Conference at British Colonial Hotel.’

‘Unemployment is serving as an incubator for criminality.’

‘And we had better bring focus as a country, as a region, on the troubled and potential trouble that exists in our backyards.’

Christie did not elaborate on how his administration plans to remedy this.

However, unemployment remains in double digits.”

First, allow me to quote the solution as proposed in the Progressive Liberal Party’s, “A Charter For Governance”, as it pertains to job creation.

“The PLP job creation plan will be proactive and will be anchored in four [4] pillars:

1. Effective promotion of The Bahamas at home and abroad. Foreign direct investment is important for The Bahamas and so is increasing local entrepreneurship;
2. The removal of impediments to business so hat Government facilitates the growth of business;
3. Increasing opportunities to dramatically expand the role of Bahamians as employers through initiatives like the national initiative in resort development, which is part of our Tourism Plan;
4. The government as a direct investor in carefully defined circumstances.”

The truth of the matter is that no matter how well a country is doing and how high the country’s employment rate is, there will always be instances of criminality and it is good that the Prime Minister has finally come to realize this but while it seems that he is willing to concede this fact he seems unwilling to concede the fact that his administration has failed at their job creation mandate; which is needed to keep most of the young men who are currently engaged in criminal acts, gainfully employed and above the state of ‘desperation’ that the Prime Minister eludes to.

The very fact that Prime Minister Perry Christie is unable to elaborate on how his administration plans to ‘fix’ this problem, as it pertains to unemployment, proves that he and his administration have no plan moving forward; and the fact that we have reached this state has shown that he and his administration had no plan to remedy the problem when they took office in 2012, as both unemployment and criminality have both increased under their watch.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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