Businessman Lok Jack calls for ORDERLY IMPORTATION of LABOUR to unlock INVESTMENT potential of T&T...exactly right. - Every single manufacturer,every retailer, is saying there isnt enough labour to go round. How do we put up a new factory with absolutely no labour? Remove impediments to immigration may well be part of the solution. One of the country’s most prominent businessmen has called on the Government to promote the orderly importation of labour in order to address the manpower shortages that are being experienced locally. Lok Jack made the point that in T&T there is full employment and there is a “hue and cry from every manufacturer, every retailer, everybody for labour” as there are not enough workers “to go around.” “Despite low interest rates and low inflation, low unemployment brings about low investment. It is very difficult for us to put a new plant or a new factory with absolutely no labour.” He said he thought that Trinidadians were quite entrepreneurial, but the country needs to remove some of structural impediments. “We should go definitely for, in my view, organised, official immigration policies, rather than the type of immigration policies that we have where we close our eyes to people coming off a boat or whatever have you.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 10:59:27 +0000
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