The Ministry of employment says it is considering the establishment of a Database to monitor the economic activity in the country.
Minister for employment Dr. Collin McIntyre says the ministry is now putting programs in place to help train the unemployed youths in the country.
“What we plan to do is to look at the establishment of a data base to give some guidance at to what really exists in Dominica to look at those employed, those unemployed and look at a program for younger folks where we can expose them to various institutions in Dominica,” he said.
“A data base of those employed and those unemployed” Wow. The data base of registered and legible voters with legitimate ID is what you guys should establish then from that data the government should easily figure out the rate of unemployment. The crux of the matter is that the government really does not need to set up a data to track employment or unemployment when there is revenue division and social security department.
I just so convinced that these guys are totally lost. Too much wrong people in management offices. How many of these guys have true managerial experience or training. In this 21 century our government is operating on a trial and error basis; there is no systematic planning and there every move is based on covering lies and illusions.
We’ve heard that Dominica is doing good; the economy is growing; rising gas prices will be controlled by the petro caribe operation.
You are killing the Ministry, you need to stop these cheap talk and do government work.
The political appointments you keep making in your ministry is crippling the mandate of your portfolio. The small business unit is under water because you all felt that some good friend had to be employed at the helm, you turned around and did the same thing with the newly established employment agency. You said that there were no competent local but for some reason a very good friend of yours ended up in the position unopposed.
When are you all going to come clean with the Dominican people and allow fairness to prevail for the good of all.
The small business unit downstairs is fully staffed with who? Were these positions advertised or did you just install your close incompetent friends behind those desk?
This is too much of an important ministry to be playing these games, enough is enough!
THE FAILED SMALL BUSINESS UNIT ASSISTANCE TO SMALL BUSINESS HERE YOU GUYS SHOULD CONCERN YOURSELVES WITH!
The government should consider establishing a full fledged labour market information system. See examples in Jamaica and recent ILO funded project in St.Vincent and the Grendaines. The LMIS is more all-encompassing and is a much better initiative across the board. The LMIS works more like the US and UK job centers, with the goal of providing labor market data and if done right links employers with employees.
I hope the database doesnot embarass you. Statistics doesnt lie.
Isn’t that what the Statistics Division is for? The department housed in the documentation centre accross from the financial centre? So DA has a ministry of “employment”? when are they going to stop duplicating all those ministries, just to provide monthly salary for minister-friends?
Seems to me, when u Govt u get blind, u don’t need a database to see how well the economy is doing
LOOK AT THE MIGRATION RATE….
It would certainly be wise to intensify the possibilities of direct meetings between the employers and the students or unemployed youths under the umbrella of the Government agencies.
Training programs to be set up must bring responses to immediate and future requirements of the private sector companies, manufacturers in particular.
Manufacturers can offer great and sustainable job opportunities.
By consumming locally produced goods, we help to develop employement. Let’s go “local” when we shop and be patriotic consumers. At the end of the day, It would certainly benefit our youths and the entire country.
I so agree with you.. My goal is to be an Electronic Design Engineer…. Or at least an Electronic Test Engineer and it looks like I would have to move in other for that to happen…. While it seems that we are so much great friends of China one of the power houses of the world in manufacturing (despite what people say) we obtain all these beautiful gifts that makes us think that we are developing but however when all those gifts stop coming, where would we be at? Right back to where we started. Is that really development?
Building a tree house would last only as long as the tree would last.
But building a house with its own foundation would keep stand despite the fall of that tree.
cant the inland revenue provide an idea of empoyment and economic stats?