Building a Better Jamaica - Job Creation

Job joy - Hundreds rehired as bauxite plant reopens

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:26:10 +0000

Release Date:

Friday, July 23, 2010

Published: Friday | July 23, 2010
Jamaica Gleaner

More than 600 people are to get direct employment while hundreds more will benefit indirectly as the Windalco bauxite plant resumes full operation in Ewarton, St Catherine.

Approximately 500 people are already working at the plant which had its official reopening yesterday.

More than 95 per cent of that number were employees who had been sent home when Windalco closed its doors over a year ago.

Gov't programme raises CAP on job opportunities

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:58:35 +0000

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Published: Wednesday | March 24, 2010
Jamaica Gleaner Nadisha Hunter, Gleaner Writer
nadisha.hunter@gleanerjm.comma

As the country's job opportunities become more and more limited, acting director for the regional programme services department at the HEART Trust/NTA, Cynthis Dewdney, says the Career Advancement Programme (CAP) introduced by Government last year, is an ideal method for getting young individuals to be their own boss.

No need for job panic, senator assures public sector

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:42:17 +0000

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

BY JULIAN RICHARDSON Assistant business co-ordinator richardsonj@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

STATE Minister in the Ministry of Finance Senator Arthur Williams yesterday attempted to quell fears that there will be massive job cuts in the public sector come April 1, the beginning of the new fiscal year.

Jobs Pact will help to Generate Employment

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:21:28 +0000

Release Date:

Monday, March 1, 2010

KINGSTON(JIS):
Monday, March 01, 2010

Jobs on the way

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:05:02 +0000

Release Date:

Friday, February 19, 2010

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

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:08:27 +0000

Release Date:

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:04:37 +0000

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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.

Canadians in the Island to Recruit Persons for Health Sector

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:19:25 +0000

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Monday, September 28, 2009

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.

Jamaicans Being Trained for Nursing Jobs in Canada

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:13:19 +0000

Release Date:

Monday, September 28, 2009

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.

Jobs, jobs, jobs at Falmouth Pier

admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:03:34 +0000

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

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

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:56:09 +0000

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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.

Govt. Optimistic That Jobs to be Created in US Will Spill Over to Jamaican Workers

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:44:45 +0000

KINGSTON (JIS):
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Amidst the global economic downturn, the Government is optimistic that some of the expected 2.5 million jobs to be created by President-elect of the United States of America (USA), Barrack Obama, will spill over and create opportunities for the Jamaican workforce.

This was noted by Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, in an interview with JIS News.

Labour Ministry Helping to Retool Persons for the Job Market

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:17:27 +0000

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

Country Producing Qualified Persons for Insurance Industry - Shaw

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:28:46 +0000

KINGSTON(JIS):
Monday, June 02, 2008

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw has said that the country is producing qualified persons capable of addressing the skills shortage, which currently exists in the local insurance industry.

Speaking at a brief ceremony at Marathon Insurance Brokers Limited's New Kingston offices on May 29, to formally introduce the company's new General Manager, Jane Francis, Mr. Shaw said that local tertiary institutions were turning out individuals capable of filling openings that exist.

'Jobs will come'

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:35:12 +0000

Published: Wednesday | June 24, 2009
Jamaica Gleaner

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pearnel Charles, is urging the nation to not get weary about his administration's promise of jobs, jobs and more jobs.

In opening the 2009-2010 Sectoral Debate inside Gordon House yesterday, Charles said the promise was not an illusion and argued that there was little the Government could do in the turbulent economic conditions to deliver on its platform vow.

Gov't offers to train workers for jobs overseas

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:04:04 +0000

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Jamaica Observer

PEARNEL Charles yesterday saw off just under 300 Jamaicans to North America on farm work programmes and committed the Government to training workers for jobs overseas as the administration tries to counter a slew of job cuts triggered by the global economic crisis.

"We are prepared to train workers on the job and we're prepared to share the cost with employers," Charles, the labour and social security minister, told the Observer.

Charles says Gov't delivering on jobs

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:00:30 +0000

Published: Wednesday | December 10, 2008
Jamaica Gleaner

Pearnel Charles, minister of labour and social security, said last Friday that the nearly two dozen Jamaican mechanics who have been enlisted in Canada's overseas employment programme were evidence of the Government's promise to create more jobs.

"When we (the Jamaica Labour Party) said to the Jamaican people we're going to help you find jobs, it was understood that we couldn't find jobs in Jamaica for everybody overnight.

Labour Ministry Forges Ahead with Youth Employment/Training Project

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:54:13 +0000

KINGSTON (JIS):
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Amidst the global economic challenge and fear of job losses, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security is continuing its $47 million Special Youth Employment and Training project (SYEAT).

Approximately 500 young persons will be trained under the SYEAT project in collaboration with the Institute for Workforce Education and Development (IWED) a subsidiary of Manpower and Maintenance Services Limited (MMS).

Labour Ministry Training Young People for Job Market

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:52:54 +0000

KINGSTON (JIS):
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Courtesy of Jamaica Information Service

Aid for jobless: Labour minister moves to create unemployment fund

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:51:10 +0000

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.