Last job fair of the year to focus on hospitality industry jobs, including chefs, technicians, housekeepers, bartenders and more KINGSTON, JAMAICA — The Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s (MLSS) final job fair for 2021 is set for next week and Director of the Electronic Labour Exchange (ELE) Lyndon Ford is urging members of the…
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New Ramada Hotel in St. Kitts & Nevis to create more than 400 jobs for local community
“We are pleased that this will add to the employment road for our young and not-so-young.” - Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS — Some 400 jobs will be added to the local labour market thanks to the opening of the new Ramada Hotel in the Whitegate Development Area on the…
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Antigua PM suggests some hotel operators exacerbating poverty by paying staff too-low wages
PM Browne outlines several developments in the works to help boost Antigua & Barbuda’s economy ST. JOHN’S, ANTIGUA & BARBUDA — As Prime Minister Gaston Browne recently highlighted key tourism developments underway in the country, he lambasted some hotel operators for exacerbating poverty by not paying their employees sufficient wages. The prime minister spoke to…
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Cayman hotelier notes challenge in hiring local hospitality workers; getting former employees to return
Michael Tibbetts says trying to remobilize hospitality industry “quite a challenge” as Cayman reopens to tourists GEORGE TOWN, CAYMAN ISLANDS — As the nation officially reopened to travelers this month, Michael Tibbetts of Cleary Cayman Resorts described his challenge in hiring local Caymanian hospitality workers, as well as getting others who had previously worked in…
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