While praising the Government’s $25 million National Job Readiness and Training Programme as “the right idea”, the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employer’s Confederation’s (BCCE) chairman yesterday said it was “not enough” to address the skills shortages and workforce productivity issues faced by the Bahamian private sector.
The three-pronged initiative, unveiled in yesterday’s Budget, aims to enhance job readiness among 1,000 Bahamian youths – recent high school graduates and those out of school for more than a year – through a 52-week Service and Productivity Improvement initiative tackling “idleness, poor work attitudes and the lack of literacy and tradable skills”.
