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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Jamaica's Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce (...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Jamaica's Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce (...

The St Kitts Nevis Observer Attendees during the virtual ILO-Jamaica the grant signing ceremony, clockwise: The Honourable Floyd Green, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries for Jamaica;, the Honourable Audley Shaw, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce for Jamaica; Dennis Zulu, Director of the ILO Caribbean Office; and Ms. Michelle Parkins, MIIC Chief Technical Director. KINGSTON, Jamaica — A landmark partnership to help informal operators in the agriculture and fisheries sectors transition to formal standards of labour has been launched by Jamaica’s Ministry of Industry, Inves...

Timid improvement for employment in Caribbean Article by January 28, 2021 Port of Spain – Tentative signs of recovery are emerging in Caribbean labour markets, following the unprecedented disruption in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest estimates  from the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the seventh edition of the ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and The World of Work. New quarterly and annual estimates based on the ILO “nowcasting” model indicate that 7.7 per cent of working hours in the Caribbean were lost during the fourth quarter (Q4) of...