Guyana is a unique nation. We have great challenges, but we also have great opportunities. Today, we have the second highest unemployment in South America. We need jobs and we need them now. But we can overcome this. Our greatest natural resources in not in the ground or sea, it’s our people. They give us hope for the future. They deserve opportunities to have good jobs and achieve the dignity that gainful employment brings.

The best path to bringing Guyana into a new frontier of economic prosperity is to create productive jobs for Guyanese. Here’s my promise: as President my top priority will be job creation. To do this I have a 100 Days Jobs Plan that will be the centerpiece of my first one hundred days in office. I’ve seen how businesses can succeed and how they can fail. I’ve traveled across the country as the former Minister of State for Economic Development and around the world as a Senior Policy Advisor for the United Nations and the World Bank. I know what can work. I know we can do it.

My 100 Days Jobs Plan outlines the key initiatives my administration will undertake if I am elected President to create good jobs for all Guyanese. Though this plan is my commitment for the first hundred days of my administration, I pledge to continue to work assiduously on behalf of the people of Guyana to make us the economic powerhouse we richly deserve to be.

Faith A. Harding
February 2011