GRENADA-LABOUR-Government defends dismissals and transfers of workers
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Jean-Christophe Bouvier, nouveau préfet de Martinique, prendra ses fonctions ce mardi 23 août
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Le nouveau préfet de la Martinique, Jean-Christophe Bouvier, prendra ses nouvelles fonctions dès ce mardi 23 août 2022 et commencera par un dépôt de gerbe.
Conformément à la tradition républicaine, le nouveau préfet de la Martinique commencera par déposer une gerbe au monument aux morts place de la Savane à Fort de France, ce mardi 23 août à 8h30, jour de la prise de ses fonctions. Pour rappel, par décret du 29 juillet 2022 suite au conseil des ministres, Monsieur Jean-Christophe Bouvier a été nommé préfet de la région Martinique en remplacement de Monsieur Stanislas Cazelles, nommé directeur des ressources et des compétences de la police nationale à l’administration centrale du ministère de l’intérieur.
Un retour en Outre-Mer
Précédemment préfet du Cher et âgé de 51 ans, Jean-Christophe Bouvier a auparavant occupé de multiples fonctions au sein de l’administration d’Etat, notamment comme préfet délégué pour la défense et la sécurité de la zone Nord, mais aussi comme sous-préfet, directeur de cabinet du préfet de la Charente-Maritime de mars 2002 à octobre 2003, sous-préfet de l’arrondissement d’Ancenis d’octobre 2003 à novembre 2004, directeur de cabinet du préfet de la Seine-Maritime de janvier 2008 à janvier 2011 et directeur de cabinet du préfet de la région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, préfet du Nord de janvier 2011 à mai 2012.
Il a commencé sa carrière au sein du ministère de la Défense et a exercé des missions au sein du ministère de la Justice et du ministère de l’Équipement, du Transport et du Logement. Il a été directeur adjoint du cabinet du ministre des Outre-Mer de mai 2012 à août 2014.
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Professionals leaving Jamaica are not cowards — Bunting Loop Jamaica
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Opposition Senator Peter Bunting is insisting that professionals, including teachers, should not be characterised as being “cowards” for migrating in search of better lives, as they are not only seeking better opportunities for themselves, but also their loved ones.
Bunting has also suggested that based on the number of professionals leaving the country, it is an indication that Jamaicans are not pleased with the Government’s ability to address the social and economic issues affecting the country.
“These teachers are abandoning schools in droves not because they wouldn’t want to stay, but the conditions that they’re being asked to serve under. They cannot sacrifice their own families for that,” Bunting claimed.
He was addressing a People’s National Party (PNP) conference in North East Manchester on Thursday.
Bunting cited a report from TheGlobalEconomy.com that ranked Jamaica as second out of 177 countries on the 2022 edition of its human flight and brain drain index, and asserted that the island’s nurses, doctors, police and university graduates are also leaving the country.
“Don’t blame them (for leaving). They’re not cowards! They are looking out for their families who they have the first responsibility to,” he said.
In turning to the Island’s economy and cost of living, the Opposition Spokesman on National Security said the promises by the Government are not being met.
He pointed to the 2016 promise of five per cent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) in four years as an example.
According to Bunting, the PNP remains undeterred in speaking on the myriad of issues affecting the Jamaican people, despite some people being critical of his and the party’s activism.
“…Those who work on six-month contracts for 20 years straight who don’t have any of the protection of the labour legislation that Michael Manley put in, they need the People’s National Party to speak on their behalf,” he suggested.
“The farmers in North East Manchester, in fact, all over Manchester, St Elizabeth, Trelawny and Clarendon, who paying $1,500 for a bag of fertiliser, need the PNP to speak on their behalf, and there is nothing that’s going to deter us from doing that,” declared Bunting.
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Teleperformance seeking 1000 persons to work from home
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At least 1,000 persons are likely to be employed to work from home in the telemarketing field by the end of this year.
In an effort to boost its workforce, Teleperformance held a job fair on Saturday at the University of Guyana’s Berbice campus. The company held the event to boost its employment drive, and attracted Berbicians who might be interested in working from home.
The requirements for the position are possession of internet service at home and ownership of a high school certificate. This is according to the Recruiting Manager of Teleperformance, Raeburn Bowman.
“The whole idea of this job fair is that we are looking to hire 800 to 1000 persons by January, or before the end of this year,” Bowman revealed. Over 550 persons have already been hired in the ‘work from home’ programme, Bowman told the job fair.
Teleperformance already has a site in the capital, in which persons work from the office, and has the capacity of 800. According to Bowman, this means that the company can hire at least 1600 persons.
“And with the ‘work from home’ set-up, that is going to expand as well,” Bowman added.
Those who have been successful at Saturday’s pre-screening exercise would be called for an interview via Zoom next week. Saturday’s job fair saw the company taking persons through the pre-screening process.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Brigadier (retd) Mark Phillips, performing the duties of President in an acting capacity, attended the job fair and described same as an opportunity to create employment in Berbice.
He noted that Teleperformance has taken advantage of the liberalisation of the telecommunication sector to expand investments in Guyana. In fact, since liberalisation in October 2020, Guyana has seen an expansion in telecommunications and ICT-related infrastructure countrywide.
“And we are at a stage now where the technology can be leveraged to support the investment. In this case, it is Teleperformance. That in itself will lead to the creation of many jobs, not only in Georgetown, but here in Region Six,” he said.
Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh, who accompanied the Prime Minister, noted that Government has been investing in training persons in ICT education to ensure that more persons have the skills which are needed in order to work in the sector. Dr Singh noted that Government is also working to create jobs in other sectors by improving skills through capacity-building.
“We have been investing in skills training, technical and vocational education,” he said.He noted that a new technical training college will be established at Port Mourant on the Corentyne, and it would incorporate the GuySuCo Training Centre and the national Oil and Gas Institute. The national Tourism and Hospitality Institute would also form a part of the complex.
“There is a very traditional type of job the Guyanese economy has become accustomed to, but as we undergo this transformation that the President has been speaking about, there are new types of jobs and new types of skills being required for those new types of jobs. This is all part of the transformation that is taking place. It is important that young people and potential job-seekers prepare themselves for these new job types. That is why programmes like the GOAL Scholarship are so important,” Dr Singh added, while noting that the world is rapidly changing.
“Guyana is changing at a pace that is even more rapid than the average pace of change around the world, and so it is important that Guyanese people adapt in order to prepare themselves for those changes,” he said.
With persons seeking jobs in the telemarketing industry, there will be need for a stable internet. This publication asked both Teleperformance and the acting President whether the bandwidth being offered by internet providers was adequate. Bowman said the company’s personal IT team did a surrey in Berbice and is convinced that there is enough internet speed for persons to be able to work from home.
“The internet is sufficient for them to work from home. All that is required is about 10 Megs, which you can get from GTT DSL. We know that we have E-networks in Berbice as well, but it is only available up to a certain area. We also have persons who can go to the home of a family who has sufficient internet and work from there.”
The acting Head of State has said there is always room for improvement. “To be fair to the service providers, they are investing and we are seeing daily expansion in the infrastructure, and eventually we will reach to the point where all of us will be satisfied with the service,” Phillips has said.
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Barbados Prime Minister Warns Of More Food Supply Disruption – St. Lucia Times News
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Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is warning of more disruption to the food supply into next year as a result of droughts in North America, China and other parts of the world.
Speaking to the in-person and virtual audience attending to the Agri-Investment Forum and Expo II at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Trinidad, on Friday, Ms. Mottley stressed that a reorganisation of plans beyond the medium term, is imperative.
“It therefore means that our plans cannot only be medium term plans to substitute feed, which we must do, as Guyana is planning to do under the distinguished leadership of my brother, President [Dr. Irfaan] Ali by 2025, with corn and soya production being ramped up to scale,” she stated.
Ms. Mottley continued: “We don’t have the luxury of that. Because we have a population that is feeling the vagaries and the negative consequences of rampant inflation. But inflation is going to also reinforce the fact that the lack of access is going to be there because of these droughts.”
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Given this expectation, Ms. Mottley repeated the urgency for regional farmers to grow six and twelve weeks’ crops and suggested that they also focus on rearing six-weeks’ livestock to meet the needs of the region.
“None of us can avoid the reality that our people must eat. And the reality is, that there are things that we can do and that we have done in our past to ensure survival.
And we are there again. Whether it is rabbits or chickens, whether it is fishing, whether it is new forays as we are doing in Barbados in aquaculture, we have the responsibility for urgent action today,” Ms. Mottley proffered.
Since the hosting of the Guyana forum, the Prime Minister shared that regional heads had been asked to formulate a framework for financing. She added that Barbados had worked assiduously with the financiers as well as with regional and international organisations to effect this.
“We’ve written every Minister of Agriculture asking for the projects. Some have started to come in already and they’ll be loaded on the electronic dashboard that will be available for heads to see today. Also on that dashboard will be training support from CARDI…,” Ms. Mottley underlined
Ms. Mottley also reiterated the importance of tackling the issue of air and maritime transportation, pointing out that regional heads were working on these areas, which she emphasised was a work in progress.
The Expo concluded on Sunday.
It’s theme was : Transforming Agriculture through Innovation and Investment.
SOURCE: Barbados Government Information Service/SLT
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ULEES se une a reclamo de cancelación contrato LUMA
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La Unidad Laboral de Enfermeras(os) y Empleados de la Salud (ULEES) urgió este lunes al gobernador de Puerto Rico, Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, a que cancele el contrato de LUMA Energy.
“Nosotros como sindicato que representa miles de Enfermeras, Enfermeros y empleados de hospitales, hemos visto cómo los apagones han perjudicado el servicio que prestan nuestros unionados a los pacientes, poniendo en riesgo no solo la salud propia y de dichos pacientes, sino sus acreditaciones como profesionales de la salud.”, dijo José Alverio Díaz, director Ejecutivo de la Unión en declaraciones escritas.
“Aun cuando reconocemos que los hospitales tienen la responsabilidad de mantener sus generadores de emergencia en óptimas condiciones, no podemos perder de perspectiva los millones de dólares que se le están otorgando a LUMA para que el servicio eléctrico sea uno eficiente. Ellos conocían de antemano las condiciones de las líneas de transmisión de electricidad, así que no pueden tener excusas para tan deficiente servicio.”, continuó diciendo el también Enfermero Graduado.
“Queda demostrado una vez más que la privatización no resuelve los problemas. La fiebre no estaba en la sábana. El gobernador tiene la responsabilidad de velar por los intereses del pueblo que lo eligió y dejarse de estar jugando al abogado de los grandes intereses, ¡cancele el contrato ahora!”, terminó.
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Salud reporta 1,742 casos nuevos por COVID-19
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El informe de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el lunes, sobre 424 casos positivos confirmados, 1,318 casos probables y sin muertes.
El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 6 de agosto de 2022 al 20 de agosto de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está en 27.95 por ciento.
Hay 311 adultos hospitalizados y de ellos, 48 están en intensivo. Mientras, 49 menores están hospitalizados y 1 está en intensivo. 24 adultos están en ventilador y 4 menores.
Las personas con vacunas al día son 1,023,791 personas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 4,909.
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Advertencia de inundaciones para la zona metropolitana
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El Servicio Nacional de Meteorología (SNM) en San Juan emitió el lunes, una advertencia de inundaciones hasta las 2:00 de la tarde para los municipios de Carolina y San Juan.
A eso de las 12:01 de la tarde, el radar Doppler detectó fuertes lluvias debido a tormentas eléctricas.
Esto causarán inundaciones urbanas y de pequeños riachuelos. Ha caído hasta 1 pulgada de lluvia.
El SNM exhortó a mantener precaución.
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NBC’s Covid-19 Update – Monday August 22nd 2022
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The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment is advising Parents and Guardians to ensure that their children and wards have all the necessary supplies to help to curb the spread of Covid 19, as they prepare for the start of the new school year.
This advice has come from Chief Health Promotion Officer in the Ministry of Health, Shanika John.
Lesley De Bique has more, in today’s Covid-19 Update.
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The deadline for teachers to apply for resumption of work ends today
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Teachers across St. Vincent and the Grenadines are attending sessions for Professional Development Week from today, as they prepare for the start of the new school year.
Today is also the deadline for Teachers who did not take the Covid 19 vaccine to apply for resumption of work.
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says he is hoping that the Teachers will take advantage of this opportunity to be re-employed.
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