Ja: Compulsory national service

GOVERNMENT SENATOR Navel Clarke - the Deputy President of the Senate ­ has tabled a Resolution in the Upper House, calling for the introduction of a compulsory National Service. The programme he envisages would be aimed at all young persons ages 15-24 "who have left the school system and who are not seeking to further their education up to tertiary level or have entered into apprenticeship or skills training."

Is this a way of reducing unemployment in Jamaica? Where will the government get the funds to pay the young people when it's alrady running a huge deficit?