{"id":319375,"date":"2024-03-22T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=319375"},"modified":"2024-03-21T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T01:06:53","slug":"national-employment-program-here-to-stay-says-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/governance\/national-employment-program-here-to-stay-says-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"National Employment Program here to stay, says gov&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_319376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319376\" style=\"width: 543px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319376\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Dr.-Irving-McIntrye-File-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"495\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Irving McIntyre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finance Minister Dr. Irving McIntyre has assured the public that the National Employment Program (NEP) is here to stay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, the NEP workers are doing an excellent job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe NEP will be here with us and we have to recognize what a good job the NEP is doing,\u201d he said during an interview with State-Owned Radio DBS. \u201cThe NEP is what\u2019s keeping our country clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. McIntrye said what the NEP is doing now, in terms of clean-up and beautification, is what was done previously by the Ministry of Public Works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow when you look at the cost of what we pay the NEP, maybe we were paying Public Works and the contractor even more,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued, \u201cSo actually it pays off to have the NEP and they are doing a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. McIntyre added, \u201cIt gives them a sense of dignity and they play a very vital role in keeping our country clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He believes that all this is part of the tourism product.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe NEP is here, they are doing an excellent job,\u201d he stated. \u201cTo say the NEP will go, that is totally out of the question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a press conference in March 2023, Minister for the Environment, Rural Modernization and Kalinago Upliftment, Cozier Frederick revealed that 29 million dollars has already been spent within the NEP in Dominica for the year 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said NEP is much more than the beautification aspect that persons perceive it to be and involves many other components.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The minister noted that a number of persons are employed at schools across Dominica, within the constituency offices, amongst other places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn total, we have a little above the public service numbers where 4352 people engage in the NEP system across the board and so just this year we have spent over $29 million in the NEP which is a significant amount of money and I\u2019ll tell you this is all indigenous funds, local monies,\u201d he revealed. \u201cIt is such an important intervention that I think for the most part is clearly misunderstood and we have various components in the NEP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He pointed out that there are people engaged in the public sector across the departments of government, at the Dominica-China Friendship Hospital, full-time interns in private institutions across the country, and that there are also some institutions that assist.\u00a0 In these instances, it is a 50\/50 percent partnership where the government pays half of the salaries and the institution pays the other half.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monthly. an average of over $600,000 is spent within the NEP private sector, including the small shop owners, the barber shops, and people engaged at the guest houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOn a monthly basis, we spend about $5.8 million to ensure that the smooth running of the NEP occurs and to remind the listening public that the NEP is not just the beautification part of the project but goes across the board into government services and also private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Dr. Irving McIntyre has assured the public that the National Employment Program (NEP) is here to stay. 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