Issues - Job Creation
Jobs on the way
Published: Friday | February 19, 2010
Jamaica Gleaner Daraine Luton, Senior Staff Reporter daraine.luton@gleanerjm.com
THE GOVERNMENT is projecting that its elaborate road and infrastructure plan will create 18,000 new jobs yearly over the next five years.
Transport Minister Mike Henry, in outlining plans for the Jamaica Infrastructure Road Development Programme during yesterday's post-Cabinet meeting at Jamaica House, said the first of those jobs will come when the programme starts in April.
Job fair opens for local nurses
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Jamaica Observer
THE Ministry of Labour and Social Security officially opened a job fair programme Monday which is expected to provide job opportunities for scores of local nurses in Canada.
Labour Minister Pearnel Charles opened the fair at the ministry's North Street headquarters in Kingston.
Flexible work hours could save jobs - Pearnel Charles
By PHILIP HAMILTON Observer writer hamiltonp@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
LABOUR and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles wants employers to consider introducing flexible work hours immediately to reduce the growing number of Jamaicans who are losing jobs.
Charles, who chairs the parliamentary committee examining proposals for the introduction of flexible work week arrangements, says it's time both workers and employers have serious dialogue on a flexi work week in order to cut costs and save jobs, instead of cutting jobs to save costs.
Jamaicans Being Trained for Nursing Jobs in Canada
OCHO RIOS (JIS):
Monday, September 28, 2009
Jamaicans are being trained to fill practical nursing vacancies in Canada.
The provision is being made under the Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) Programme, which involves collaboration with the Government of Jamaica, the Centre For Nursing Studies (CNS) in Canada and Marmicmon Integrated Marketing and Communications.
Training sites are: the Nuttall Hospital in Kingston; the Brown's Town Community College in St. Ann; and the Spaldings campus of the Knox Community College in Clarendon.
Canadians in the Island to Recruit Persons for Health Sector
KINGSTON (JIS):
Monday, September 28, 2009
Courtesy of Jamaica information Service
Some 28 employers from 14 healthcare establishments across Canada are taking part in a job recruitment fair organised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, from which they will select persons for employment overseas.
Jobs, jobs, jobs at Falmouth Pier
BY HORACE HINES, Observer West reporter
Thursday, July 23, 2009
FALMOUTH, Trelawny -
Courtesy of Jamaica Observer
Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry says the development of the $7.5 billion pier in this historic town, to accommodate the Royal Caribbean's Genesis cruise ship, will create 1700 jobs, 500 of which will be permanent.
Falmouth pier to provide over 2,000 jobs, says Henry
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Jamaica Observer
FALMOUTH, Trelawny - The development of a $7.5-billion pier in this historic town will provide temporary and permanent employment for just over 2,000 persons, according to Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry.
"Land-side facilities, which will flow from the development of the pier, will provide 500 permanent jobs when completed. But the actual implementation will see to the employment of some 1,500 to 1,700 persons," Henry at the official opening of a relocated fishing village in Falmouth.
Caymanas Economic Zone to Provide Thousands of Jobs
TORONTO (JIS):
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, has said that the establishment of the Caymanas Economic Zone, in St. Catherine, is expected to provide jobs for more than 30,000 Jamaicans.
Labour Ministry Helping to Retool Persons for the Job Market
KINGSTON (JIS):
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Courtesy of Jamaica Information Service
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, has said that the Ministry has embarked on several programmes to retool and re-skill persons finding it hard to secure jobs.
Speaking at an information fair put on by the Events Management Group of the University of the West Indies' Open Campus today (July 3) at the Knutsford Court Hotel
Aid for jobless: Labour minister moves to create unemployment fund
Published: Sunday | February 1, 2009
Daraine Luton, Staff Reporter daraine.luton@gleanerjm.com
LABOUR AND Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles has disclosed plans to set up a social-security net to provide displaced workers with unemployment benefits.
At the same time, Charles' Cabinet colleague, Dwight Nelson, has rapped employers for making workers jobless as the first response to economic problems.
