In one list of election campaign promises, the Labour Party gives one that is quite intriguing: guaranteed jobs or training for the young.
Now, the Nationalist Party has also given a number of intriguing pledges, some of which have already been commented upon. Its commitment, for instance, to create 25,000 new jobs, if elected, is not far off from Labour’s magic-wand promises.
True, in the time of the PN in government unemployment has been stemmed to acceptable levels and a good part of the credit for this is due to the administration for its work and policies.
But the way politicians speak gives the impression that it is just the Government that creates jobs. This is not the case and politicians ought to measure their words when they come to talk about this as, indeed, they should when they speak on other matters as well.
But, short of employing people directly in the administration or in parastatal companies or corporations, as has been done before under both PN and PL administrations, how can any administration here or anywhere else for that matter guarantee jobs?
It is not the first time such an undertaking has been given but the pledge ought to be dismissed as a myth.
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