Jobs, jobs jobs! Seem to be a key to reducing the crime problem and other social ills it brings with it... drug and alcohol abuse among. And apparently the highest unemployment is among the young, inner city dwellers and the least skilled. Government can assist if it starts some of the road works and other infrastructure work it has proposed in New Providence and on the family. There has to be sufficient work going on simultaneously so as to hire enough workers to affect the unemployment numbers and stimulate the economy.

In name Ma Comrade Sweet Jesus, KP and Minnis couldn't restart the much promised tech nor hotel paycheques - so sudden, urgent out Imperial red cabinet call redirect their focus to expanding the peddling of 'sludge' onto the pristine beaches Grand Bahama - in the meantime the long lineups to Freeport's Soup Lines will have to continue. There is a great danger to brungs great hurt into waters and beaches when "slugging permits" be granted to foreigners with little to no experience in the ever present dangers slugging operations - and by a red government ZERO environment safeguards in place. God, send-in the Queen to save Grand Bahamians. Somebody needs start a give-away of Union Jacks - throughout Grand Bahama. Jack Hayward - just has never work for Freeporters.

There is no place for pride when there is bills to be paid, if they had had that job fair in hell and persons need and wanted a job they would stand and wait. That's how it works. I see the MP complains a lot about situations. I sent several people there. They just want something to do. Then there is that Brave fella, as always he sees things in red and gold!

Brave you obviously have memory loss. Your corrupt lot hired over 2000 persons just before the election when there were no positions and simply to garner votes. Job losses are tragic yes but most ministries are still way over staffed and paid for by our taxes. Still you have to find something to bitch about in a vain attempt to claw back any credibility for the PLP. If you had been re elected then the country would be in an almost bankrupt spiral

Of course people need jobs, but how many are willing to WORK!

There is that, but in fairness there are many who are willing to work! Not knowing where your next dollar will come from is not a good feeling. The whole job ethics thing in the Bahamas needs a GOOD overhaul. I know, easier said than done but there must be a starting point somewhere. It took decades to cultivate...........

Ma Comrades, Nine-months out from May 10, 2017 general elections when thousands in Grand Bahama were so mad at the PLP - they actually voted for KP and other reds when a lot of things were going bad all around them only to now wake up to head out - not to sustainable jobs- but lineup in Soup Lines. {Soup Lines are not a made up thing that while Constituents numbering hundreds lined up waiting kindness warm bowl soup - Imperial red MP's were feasting from House of Assembly table free lunch all paid for by out public purse}.

Unless the government makes an effort to uplift and make it easier for small businesses to operate at a profit, the unemployment numbers will grow. There is no magical pot of jobs out there anymore, nor is there a magical pot of government jobs.Tourists are not coming here in droves anymore, so there is no magical pot of hotel jobs. Bunch of illiterates coming out of school every year. Go figure, then, where jobs are going to come from.

At they are trying. I guess people like mcalpine and brave want the government to stop by the homes of these people. If the civil service is bloated and the government see fit to down size, why is it their responsibility to find jobs for them.

If you have ever been an employer you would have some insight into the other side of the coin. Many who want jobs especially at entry level are ill prepared for them, in speech, deportment, critical thinking, willingness to learn and even hygienic practices! Petty theft (not just of time) is another major problem employers have to deal with. Employers know how difficult it is to find good employees and will not let them go easily! Many employers suffer from 'bad employee fatigue'!

Ma Comrades, call me crazy, but I thought the purpose of a 'job fair' was to actually meet the people offering the jobs?
Eventually Freeport will be abandoned by its foreigner government - so why wait economic bust sidelines 10 years to begin the recolonialization? Only the natives can save Freeport. Big oil sludge and tourism impossible promote in same ad to the world.

That is my point, not sure even why the MP McAlpine even makin noise, our folks here hurtin' Freeport

I don't know.......there are just no jobs out there. Population is too big for the limited amount of jobs, and it's going to get worse. More layoffs as tourism dwindles and dwindles. Tourism and banks were our two main industries. Banks almost done in this country and tourism drying up.It's scary.

ma Comrades, BORCO set the wage standard but it never accounted for more than 1.8% of the jobs entire population Grand Bahama. The sludge oil business is not a job quantity producing industry... much better known as where the politicians likes best cozy up to around donation campaign
pass the hat times.

WHEN WILL THE GOVERNMENT SEE THE NEED TO FUNNEL AN INVESTMENT TO THE SOUTHERN BAHAMAS - SOUTH OF EXUMA?????????

The reliance on government to provide "jobs" is the first fallacy and failure we have invited and must now suffer..
Politicizing permits, licenses, jobs, schools and teaching, hospitals, Banks!
We are only reaping what we have sown.

There are many things the government fails at, but the biggest is the failure to provide the environment in which Bahamian businesses can grow. I suspect they haven't figured out the correlation between small and medium business growth and reduced unemployment.

It is much easier to do business in this country if you are not Bahamian!

.....another is the failure to do 5, 10, 15.......year plans....simply look at the ages of the population .......from those at birth...school....graduate....enter the woork force...retire etc and make provisions for the future. Lack of planning, vision to provide ....for the electorate and families while collecting a paychect from the same taxpayers is not good.