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City Markets staff 'want to have cake and eat it, too'

CITY Markets principal, Mark Finlayson, in addressing employee concerns over compensation packages, yesterday said the "primary" issue in negotiating the sale of the five-store chain was saving jobs, telling Tribune Business the situation was different in Freeport where severance payments would have to be made.

Lewis opens Job Ready Programme in Grand Bahama

YOUTH, Sports, and Culture Minister Iram Lewis officially opened The Job Ready Programme in Grand Bahama on Friday.

Government appointments

Here are three appointments the government should consider to bring peace in the relevant departments.

Tata Steel announces plans to cut 2,800 jobs in a blow to Welsh town built on steelmaking

INDIAN firm Tata Steel announced Friday it will close both blast furnaces at its plant in Port Talbot, Wales, eliminating 2,800 jobs, as part of plans to make its unprofitable U.K. operation leaner and greener.

Tax reform in the Bahamas

Governments everywhere want economic growth and jobs for their people. Yet they sprinkle job killing taxes (re the VAT) throughout the economy. Then they give exemptions, rebates, subsidies, etc in hopes of countering the damage caused by the very taxes they levied.

Are the PLP anti-jobs?

I must say that I am very surprised at the anti-development, anti-job stance adopted lately by Her Majesty’s Official Opposition. The Progressive Liberal Party was once a party of the people, the party of the working man. This is no longer the case, it would seem. Nowadays, a new-look PLP is everywhere criticising the government for signing deals that create much-needed jobs for struggling communities and give regular Bahamians hope for their future and security for their families.

PM eyes 100,000 more GB visitors

PRIME Minister Perry Christie said yesterday that he expects the Sunwing Travel Group to bring more than 100,000 visitors a year to Grand Bahama, while acknowledging that the Government spends far too much annually in subsidising that island’s tourism industry.

Fears over job security in wake of announcement

THE government’s announcement to make radical changes at BEC has sent shock waves throughout the Corporation with employees concerned about job security, said a Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU) official yesterday.

Call to change approach to more accurately record long-term employment

FREE National Movement Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest yesterday urged officials at the Department of Statistics to adjust the line of questioning used in its biannual unemployment survey “accordingly,” claiming the survey does not differentiate between temporary and long-term employment status.

1,500 apply for Baha Mar jobs

OVER 1,500 people applied for and/or inquired about jobs with the once stalled Baha Mar mega resort yesterday, according to senior company officials, who said the numbers demonstrate that the company is making good on its promise to “generate a significant amount of jobs” in the country.

PM hits out on failed succession planning

The prime minister yesterday hit out at expatriate work permit holders who failed to train Bahamians to replace them, yet remained in this nation for years, for taking jobs away from locals. Closing debate on the mid-year budget in the House of Asse

IAN FERGUSON: Signs workers need new job challenge

Economists indicate that the only form of healthy unemployment is frictional unemployment. That is the process of leaving a job to explore options that are more in line with a worker’s interests and skills.

Butler-Turner says jobs being given for votes

LONG Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner yesterday blasted the Christie administration over the reported launch of a jobs programme in her constituency, claiming 28 people were handpicked for new employment as an election approaches.

BTC: No Bahamian jobs outsourced to Pakistan

The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) yesterday asserted it “has not outsourced any Bahamian jobs” from its customer service contact centre amid staff and union fears these posts are being lost to Pakistan.

NHI risks ‘up to 1,000 jobs’

A HIGH level stakeholder in the health insurance industry said the jobs of as many as 1,000 people will be in jeopardy if the Christie administration moves ahead with its National Health Insurance scheme without incorporating the Bahamas Insurance Association’s recommendations.

RBC outsourcing more jobs to Trini

Commercial banking industry consolidation and job losses are set to continue, after Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) yesterday unveiled plans to transfer its credit card unit to Trinidad & Tobago.

$20m plan will help train young for job market

LABOUR Minister Shane Gibson said the government’s new $20m employment plan will help identify and train thousands of young people for the job market.

Bid to introduce union for container port staff

LABOUR and religious leaders in Grand Bahama are supporting workers at the Freeport Container Port who are again taking steps to form a union to bargain for better wages, permanent job status and a safer workplace.

PM: Rise in unemployed to drive govt on

PRIME Minister Perry Christie said he has accepted the recent unemployment report from the Department of Statistics, which shows a 1.4 per cent jump in unemployment adding that the discouraging numbers will push his government to ensure greater employment for Bahamians.

Cash hits back over Gomez attacks

THE governing party’s latest attack on FNM North Abaco by-election candidate Greg Gomez has been ridiculed as a feeble ploy – the opposition claiming the PLP is just ashamed after being caught in the act of victimisation.

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