Showing posts with label unemployment bahamas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployment bahamas. Show all posts
Saturday, September 21, 2024

The Bahamas Brain Drain

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The Bahamas needs to improve its educational system to mitigate the brain drain and improve human capital By Jamal Moss Nassau, The Bahamas ...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

The Bahamas national unemployment rate increases

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Unemployment up Survey says more than 30,000 without jobs By KRYSTEL ROLLE-BROWN Guardian Staff Reporter krystel@nasguard.com The na...
Friday, June 15, 2012

...if the Bahamian economy were to grow at a level of six to eight percent ...we would not be talking about government debt... ...The reason why we should prioritize economic growth over debt reduction is because greater economic activity generates greater revenue for government... ...Greater revenue reduces reliance on borrowing and so, debt would fall over time... ...Further, higher levels of growth usually lead to lower levels of unemployment, more opportunities for individuals to make money in order to pay their mortgages, to pay for college, or to start new businesses... ...But, in order to achieve such levels of growth, we need a plan

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A call for a national economic plan By David Frazer In the 1960s, Germany experienced one of the world’s most impressive examples of ec...
Friday, March 9, 2012

...four years after the ‘Great Recession’ commenced, the Bahamian economy continues to struggle... ...the government is challenged with reduced revenues, soaring energy and food prices, high unemployment, rising crime levels and social ills... ...with unemployment at its highest in years and individuals on reduced pay... it seems fair to state that the mortgage sector and housing market in The Bahamas are in a crisis...

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Confronting the Bahamian debt crisis pt. 1 By Arinthia S. Komolafe In the aftermath of the worst recession since the Great Depression, th...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Youth unemployment, which is pegged at 34 percent in The Bahamas, is especially a cause for concern if only because many of the young people have not yet had the opportunity to join the labor force... and as such, are being denied access to gainful employment... which is considered by many social scientists as the traditional route to the process of social integration

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Youth unemployment thenassauguardian editorial The most recent Labour Force Survey, which was released by the Department of Statistics, c...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

...youth unemployment is up by more than 30 per cent in The Bahamas

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Jobless youth up by a third By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Staff Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net THE NATIONAL unemployment rate has ris...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Department of Immigration has decreased the number of work permits issued in 2011 by 24 per cent due to the high level of unemployment among Bahamians

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Cut in work permits to help Bahamians By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune News Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net BECAUSE of the high level o...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Continuing budget deficits and the national debt... Bahamas

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The mid-term budget thenassauguardian editorial The prime minister and minister of finance has presented to Parliament a statement on ...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Bahamas Upcoming General Election: It’s [Still] the Economy Stupid!

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“It’s [Still] the Economy...” By Felix Bethel jonesbahamas Well might it be as true today as it was some years ago in the United State...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

James Smith - former minister of state for finance says: Any news about the US economy slowing down is really not good news for The Bahamas

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More economic woes for The Bahamas predicted By ALISON LOWE Tribune Staff Reporter alowe@tribunemedia.net: A FORMER minister of state for fi...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Brent Symonette - Minister of Immigration: Bahamians "cannot continue to employ non-Bahamian labour and complain at the rate of unemployment."

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Deputy PM: we cannot employ non-Bahamian labour and complain about unemployment By ALISON LOWE Tribune Staff Reporter alowe@tribunemedia.net...
Saturday, May 1, 2010

Bahamas Government Debt To Worsen

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GOVT DEBT TO WORSEN By CANDIA DAMES ~ Guardian News Editor ~ candia@nasguard.com: A rising government deficit and persistent revenue vulnera...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

PLP Deputy Leader Philip "Brave" Davis claims Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham's appointing of political figures to bench undermining crime fight

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By ALISON LOWE Tribune Staff Reporter alowe@tribunemedia.net: PLP Deputy Leader Philip "Brave" Davis yesterday claimed the appoint...
Thursday, May 20, 2004

Joblessness is A Pressing Concern for Bahamians in The Bahamas

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STRAIGHT UP TALK THURSDAY MAY 20 TH , 2004 By Zhivargo Laing Nassau, The Bahamas   The Bahamas 2004/2005 BUDGET MUST DELIVER JOBS Prime Mini...