all you need is certification ?

plus you'll need to have a basic education too

Then why do most Bahamians I know prefer to hire foreigners for job openings they have?
Especially if it involves jobs within one's house and positions of trust.
Being capable of doing a job is not the same as willingly doing a job with a good attitude, being on time and being honest.
Perhaps these are the problems that we need to attend to.
Perhaps this is why we are in this situation in the first place.
Sure, Bahamians can do many of these jobs.
But will they without breaking the back of the employer?
On our small family island, the people who come back home from Nassau to invest their money simply refuse to hire our locals.
Why could that be?
So long as we have people in positions of power who do not acknowledge these realities, we are wasting our time and money in paying them.
Politics anybody?

The hard part is finding a Bahamian that will show up every day on-time. They may do it for a couple of weeks and then they get bored or got a little cash and they gone shopping to Miami. Young Bahamians aren't into making a career - they just want money.

a couple of weeks? no, by Wednesday or Thursday they've had enough and ask to be paid. If you're lucky, they'll be back on Monday

Too funny, but so true.

This article and information is a clear picture on the very, very sad state of the youth and young adults of the Bahamas. They are obviously unmotivated, lazy, and uneducated. Many of the jobs referenced in the article could easily provide for a decent living and allow you to have some financial stability in your life. Also, I am absolutely sick and tired of folks bashing the Haitians and Jamaicans that come here and work. Instead we should be fortunate and thankful they are here to work and help with our economy. This article clearly states that one of the main reasons these jobs are fulfilled with foreign workers is because the local Bahamans refuse to apply for these various jobs -- which is absolutely pathetic and embarrassing.

These comments sum up our uneducated, slack.......... either way they say it all!

INEPTOCRACY!

The phenomenon of governance or leadership by the incompetent.

A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers aka the Bahamian middle class.

83% of the calories Mr Farquharson eats are unnecessary.

Now that's friggin funny.

The simple fact of the matter is the Bahamas does not have sufficient work force labour to meet the needs of the country. That work force needs training certification whatever but if the Bahamian is not interested in that line of work then we need to be more open and easy with allowing foriegn in to do work.

I once interviewed someone for a skilled job, right up front they said they only gonna be here for 9 months until they save up enough cash too leave the country... true story. This is a young lady working on her CPA.

The granting of 'Work Permits,' Newcomers can be turned into a' colony's positive,' --- Still, Labour Director Comrade Robert Farquharson, shouldn'' become so mystified by the reasons for why locals choose not to register with the Labour Department. --- Yes?