Well it good to know tat the Unions have been looking at this since 2003.
So what is their position Mr. Ferguson? What specific recommendations do the unions have?
Don't be shy, tell us. With 15 years of working on this you should be in a position to educate us all, including the lazy businessmen who have done noting in the last 17 years.
*"He emphasised that manufacturers' needs could not be addressed "in a vacuum", warning that the Government's "ambitious timeline" for completing the WTO accession by end-2019 may not allow for "careful consideration" of all interests."*
Ambitious timeline??? You have had since 2001 to make comments. Nothing ambitious about the timeline.
Just a group of lazy business people who have been sitting in their ass for the last 17 years.
There is nothing to prevent the Groups from doing their own international promotion.
The point is that they should have been doing it from July last year.
The groups in Trinidad promote themselves on their own websites. Just Google Trinidad Carnival and often you get one of the groups, like the Tribe before anything else.
Get with it and stop waiting to be spoon fed like a bunch of babies.
Wow, I guess we will have plenty of Bahamians available for lots of banking jobs when the bank pulls out.
The Director of Labour must be one of our grade "D-" students who was given a government job and has now climbed up the ranks of the civil service. What an ignorant clown.
"Meanwhile, in Jamaica, Chinese workers completed **a $720 million four-lane highway** connecting the north and south sections of the island - the **single biggest Chinese investment in the Caribbean.**
**According to Jamaican reports, as a return for the investment, Chinese companies were granted the right to build three luxury hotels on land granted along the road **and manage the roadway’s toll pass."****
Seems like they are getting some of that investment back in the roadway toll pass alone.
Economist says...
Well it good to know tat the Unions have been looking at this since 2003.
So what is their position Mr. Ferguson? What specific recommendations do the unions have?
Don't be shy, tell us. With 15 years of working on this you should be in a position to educate us all, including the lazy businessmen who have done noting in the last 17 years.
On Union chief slams 'travesty' of WTO meeting exclusion
Posted 17 April 2018, 7:30 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
*"He emphasised that manufacturers' needs could not be addressed "in a vacuum", warning that the Government's "ambitious timeline" for completing the WTO accession by end-2019 may not allow for "careful consideration" of all interests."*
Ambitious timeline??? You have had since 2001 to make comments. Nothing ambitious about the timeline.
Just a group of lazy business people who have been sitting in their ass for the last 17 years.
On Manufacturer survival needs tariffs post-WTO
Posted 17 April 2018, 7:16 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
Can anyone point to something the Chinese have done, in The Bahamas, that has been beneficial to anyone other than the Chinese worker?
On China reassures Caribbean amid trade tensions with US
Posted 15 April 2018, 8:45 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
There is nothing to prevent the Groups from doing their own international promotion.
The point is that they should have been doing it from July last year.
The groups in Trinidad promote themselves on their own websites. Just Google Trinidad Carnival and often you get one of the groups, like the Tribe before anything else.
Get with it and stop waiting to be spoon fed like a bunch of babies.
On Carnival: The show goes on – May 4
Posted 13 April 2018, 3:39 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
What the PLP can take from the above comments is that they are even more unpopular than the current government.
On Mitchell: ‘People are fed up with their hypocrisy’
Posted 13 April 2018, 3:34 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
Did you try to get into there international system and get transferred to another country? If you don't do that then you will not get ahead.
On Canadian bank's work permit bid rejected
Posted 11 April 2018, 8:34 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
Mexico already put tariffs up against The Bahamas. It put a stop to the doubling of the size of a business and the employment of nearly 100 Bahamians.
This could not have happened if The Bahamas was a member of WTO
On Private sector urged to seize WTO consultation
Posted 11 April 2018, 1:13 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
Wow, I guess we will have plenty of Bahamians available for lots of banking jobs when the bank pulls out.
The Director of Labour must be one of our grade "D-" students who was given a government job and has now climbed up the ranks of the civil service. What an ignorant clown.
On Canadian bank's work permit bid rejected
Posted 10 April 2018, 8:55 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
"Meanwhile, in Jamaica, Chinese workers completed **a $720 million four-lane highway** connecting the north and south sections of the island - the **single biggest Chinese investment in the Caribbean.**
**According to Jamaican reports, as a return for the investment, Chinese companies were granted the right to build three luxury hotels on land granted along the road **and manage the roadway’s toll pass."****
Seems like they are getting some of that investment back in the roadway toll pass alone.
On China: our help is a ‘win win’
Posted 10 April 2018, 2:29 p.m. Suggest removal
Economist says...
If the court does not make the decision, as to who is illegal, who does? The proposal does not appear to follow the Rule of Law.
Are we going to give the Minister the same powers to declare persons as criminals and send them straight to Fox Hill without a court hearing?
On AG seeks to reinforce powers for deportation
Posted 10 April 2018, 2:25 p.m. Suggest removal