The Editor, Sir:

Getting an education, at one point, was almost a guarantee of getting a better job which would result in attaining a higher standard of living for oneself and family.

As we try to move forward as a country, this aspect of education is fast becoming a gamble and a distant memory. Upon leaving university, many persons have to stay at home because of the lack of opportunity that exists.

This is certainly disheartening to many looking on and it is no wonder why many upon leaving high school do not wish to enrol in a tertiary institution.

I at times ask the question, what is the need of going to the University of Technology or University of the West Indies when, at the end of your course of study, getting a job becomes no easier or accessible?

Afford us the privilege

I would also like to note that it makes me disturbed when I hear young people being called all sorts of unsavoury names and being blamed for most, if not all, the ills in the Jamaican society, when the truth is that opportunities afforded to us are few and far between and when these 'opportunities' arise, one has to wonder if it is deserving of such a title. It is believed that luck favours the prepared, but when the tools needed for such preparations are at such unreachabl what can one really do?

They need to stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and arm us with the necessary tools to move forward.

Remember, young people are the future and at the rate we are going the future is not one to look forward to.

I am, etc.,

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Portmore,

St Catherine