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A Government backbencher is taking some unemployed Barbadians to task for not grabbing hold of the free opportunities to improve their skills.During the Barbados Labour party (BLP) St. James North branch meeting at the Gordon Greenidge Primary School, Rock Dundo St. James on Sunday night, Member of Parliament for that constituency Edmund Hinkson expressed his irritation.“I get frustrated when I hear some of our people say they can’t find work or they want a job and when I ask them . . . what skills do you have, you can’t get anything out of them or you hear them say they could do anything. And when my response is, ‘well you can’t fly a plane or spaceship to the moon. Come again, what can you do? And we giving you this opportunity and this is of course after 12 years of free education, between ages 4 and 16/17, that – we are giving you a second opportunity as a young adult to get training, to get skills, to be able to provide for yourself and your family,” he said.

Edmund hinksonGordon greenidge primary schoolNational transformation initiativeMinistry of community developmentMember of parliamentBarbados labourJames northRock dundoCommunity developmentVocational training board