A new study published last week sounds the alarm on a suicide crisis that is crushing rural America. From 1999 to 2016, the suicide rate of Americans ages 25 to 64 jumped 41%, researchers […]
FINANCE Minister K Peter Turnquest yesterday said the government has not given any detailed consideration to increasing the minimum wage. #He moved to temper expectations after Labour Minister Dion Foulkes told reporters […]
MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Company (MSC) executives yesterday said $300m has been invested to-date in transforming Ocean Cay from an “industrial site into paradise”, with close to 130 Bahamians to be employed. #The Swiss-headquartered […]
As both countries struggle with demographic and economic challenges, Africa’s potential work force is set to surpass Asia’s by the end of the 21st-century, according to Bloomberg. 15 to 64 year old Africans today represent […]
Four years after it made its first offshore oil discovery here, ExxonMobil says that it and its contractors have created almost 1,200 new jobs for locals with over 200 of those being […]
Agreement. Starting on the 1st of this month, private sector employees will begin to charge a salary adjustment of 14 percent. The decision was announced yesterday by the National Wages Committee, after a […]
The Government will propose a salary increase of more than 10% for non-sectorized private sector employees , if the trade unionists and employers do not agree on the discussions that take place in this regard in the […]
