{"id":14738,"date":"2011-11-07T11:10:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T16:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14738"},"modified":"2011-11-07T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T16:13:24","slug":"bahamas-striping-granted-big-baha-mar-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/bahamas-striping-granted-big-baha-mar-jobs","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Striping Granted Big Baha Mar Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bahamas Striping \u2018s qualified UK Striping Technician and Trainer, Brian Bostock, guides 25-year old Triston Johnson in striping a car park. Triston is one of the graduates from the National Job & Training Initiative Orientation, set up by the government to aid youth unemployment and to address the need for on-the-job skills training. The program enables companies like Bahamas Striping to train youngsters at little cost. Bahamas Striping President Atario Mitchell said the program was a great incentive for businesses to employ and mentor young locals to give them much needed work experience and a brighter future. Currently, Bahamas Striping is training several young men while working on the Baha Mar Development site. Mitchell praised Bahamas Hot Mix and Baha Mar for giving his young company the opportunity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bahamas Striping, the grant-winning company from the Ministry of Youth, Sports & Culture\u2019s Self Starter Program, is working on painting car parks and other facilities on the large Baha Mar development project.\u00a0 The contract was awarded to Bahamas Striping by local contractor Bahamas Hot Mix.<\/p>\n

So far, Bahamas Striping\u2019s portfolio of Baha Mar Commercial Center jobs includes Fidelity Bank, ScotiaBank, Commonwealth Bank, the Sheraton resort parking lot and the new Cable Beach Fire Station. The Baha Mar work is greatly adding to the company\u2019s experience, according to Bahamas Striping President, Atario Mitchell.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thankful to Bahamas Hot Mix and Baha Mar for work on this great development. A high profile project like this only comes once in a generation, so we\u2019re very proud that my young Self Starter company is allowed to be part of it,\u201d said Mitchell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis experience is tremendously valuable to our young staff. They\u2019re perfecting various skills all the time. And they\u2019re making great progress on our off days when we go offsite to learn how to drive the machines. They can take skills with them into the future or anywhere in the world,\u201d said Mitchell.<\/p>\n

The young crew being trained under the guidance of Striping Trainer Brian Bostock from Liverpool in the UK.\u00a0 The crew are learning car park management, how to plan parking ahead of time, machine maintenance and how to layout car parks.<\/p>\n

One of Bahamas Striping\u2019s crew is 25-year old Triston Johnson, who recently graduated from the government\u2019s National Job & Skills Training Initiative two-week orientation. The company is hoping to acquire more staff through the job initiative. Johnson said the government\u2019s job initiative is \u201cawesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe orientation really tells you how to conduct yourself and I learnt a lot,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cNow the training I\u2019m getting on the Baha Mar projects with Bahamas Striping is setting me up for a great future. It\u2019s not just a job \u2013 this is a true career. Besides the nice feeling of having some money in the bank, I\u2019m planning to put a down payment on a home and buy a car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bahamas Striping president Atario Mitchell is grateful to Bahamas Hot Mix and Baha Mar for giving 80 percent of the striping at the multi-billion dollar site to a new, young local company.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what we need right now in this country \u2013 for the profits to pass through the economy and to build this nation. That\u2019s what Bah Mar and Hot Mix have given us,\u201d said Mitchell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Baha Mar work is a feather in our cap.\u00a0 Everyone is so pleased how the project is going. We see praise from the public along Cable Beach and in the newspapers almost every day about the traffic management and the progress,\u201d said Mitchell. \u201cThe crew are excited to be working on it. They want to take great pride in their work and get it done right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell also praised the government\u2019s National Job & Training Initiative. \u201cFor a relatively new company, it\u2019s always tough to make a decent profit in the first few years. Training on days away from actual jobs sites is expensive. But we like to do it. So, this government job program is going to help us a lot. It means we can train new personnel even when we have no jobs \u2013 and they\u2019ll be paid for it. With the program, training Triston only costs us time and materials. On rainy days, we can even give the crew hands-on office experience and administration. It\u2019s a fantastic program and we are keen to get more young people on board,\u201d says Mitchell.<\/p>\n

Bahamas Striping\u2019s work on Baha Mar started in August 2011 and continues for several years through the life of the development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bahamas Striping, the grant-winning company from the Ministry of Youth, Sports & Culture\u2019s Self Starter Program, is working on painting car parks and other facilities on the large Baha Mar development project. The contract was awarded to Bahamas Striping by local contractor Bahamas Hot Mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,153,119],"class_list":["post-14738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-baha-mar","tag-business-2","tag-roads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}