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100 Abaconians attend $39m port's job fair
More than 100 Abaconians attended China Harbour Engineering Company’s (CHEC) Tuesday job fair that sought recruits to work on the construction of North Abaco’s $39 million port.
all aboard for two-day job fair
Royal Caribbean International is hosting a two-day job fair starting today at the National Training Agency on Gladstone Road hoping to fill a number of onboard positions ranging from bartender to broadcast technician.The job fair comes as the cruise
Hundreds seek jobs at fast food franchise
JOB SEEKERS turned out by the hundreds at the Town Centre Mall yesterday to take advantage of career opportunities for Carl’s Jr - a new fast food franchise.
Minister calls for ‘all hands on deck’ over job outsource
A Cabinet minister yesterday warned that “all hands on deck” were required to prevent the further outsourcing of financial services jobs, with this nation needing to improve operating efficiencies and how business is conducted.
1,600 have found work through job fairs
ABOUT 1,600 job seekers have obtained employment through the government’s Labour on the Blocks job fairs, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes said yesterday.The unemployment rate has remained persistently high over the last decade, with a rate of 10.7 perce
Claim of 7,000 jobs disputed
OPPOSITION leader Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday raised concerns over a newly released employment figure that claims that the Christie administration has added 7,000 jobs to the Bahamian work force in its two years in office.
PM confident unemployment will fall to 10% or less
PRIME Minister Perry Christie said yesterday he is “confident” that the unemployment rate will fall to “10 per cent or less” in the next two to three years.
Thank you for fair
I WOULD like to say "thank you" to all the energetic, warm, wonderful, nation- building team who assisted me in organising our Montagu Constituency Jobs Fair which was held last week at the Uriah McPhee School on Kemp Road
McCartney: I don't trust the govt with implementing VAT
DNA Leader Branville McCartney criticised the government over recent hotel job losses and said that the PLP’s promised “grandiose employment strategy” has “failed to come to fruition”. Mr McCartney said yesterday that the “highly touted” job creation promised by the Progressive Liberal Party during its campaign ahead of the 2012 general election has turned out to be “nothing more than another empty campaign promise”.
Green economy gives ‘opportunities galore’
The Government would help create a “far greater” number of “meaningful” Bahamian jobs if it abandoned its current development approach in favour of the ‘green economy’, a well-known QC believes.
FNM deputy slams Gov’t on apprentice initiative
The Opposition’s finance spokesman yesterday said it was “disingenuous” for the Christie administration to tout its $20 million apprenticeship programme as something different than the 52-week job programme launched by the former Ingraham administration, and which it had heavily criticised.
Job readiness graduates praised by youth minister
MINISTER of Youth, Sports, and Culture Iram Lewis commended over 70 young participants who completed the seven-week job readiness programme in Grand Bahama.
'Hang in there', union chief tells furloughed employees
A trade union leader yesterday urged frustrated hotel employees and other furloughed workers to "hang in there" and not seek termination packages due to the difficulty many will have finding new jobs.
Sacked BAIC staff: We thought our roles were permanent
A 41-year-old mother of ten is wondering how she will take care of her six school-aged children now that she has been let go from the Bahamas Agriculture & Industrial Corporation.
Govt warned: Don’t take all credit for jobs
The Government cannot take sole credit for the 31,735 jobs added to the labour force since its May 2012 election, the Chamber’s chief executive warning that businesses “cannot feel they are working just to pay taxes”.
More than 50% of NTA graduates find new jobs after training
MORE than half of the graduates from the National Training Agency have found full time employment in the private and government sector, according to NTA Director Agatha Marcelle.
Minnis rounds on critics of Labour on the Block scheme
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has hit back at critics of his administration’s Labour on the Block initiative, which has assisted approximately 1,000 people with jobs.
Govt renews its 52-week job programme
HUNDREDS of participants of the government’s National Job Creation and Skills Enhancement Programme have been re-engaged for the second year of the employment initiative which begins on Monday, Minister of Public Service and National Insurance Brensi
Pride over jobs in The Bahamas
Looking at the way our society is heading the common man today doesn’t have much support or none at all, no matter which direction he or she turns. Whether it be the government, church, a neighbour, family or your good friend, but there is something today that when we have it we appear to take it for granted – and that is our jobs.