{"id":21782,"date":"2012-05-16T08:54:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=21782"},"modified":"2012-05-17T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T12:54:25","slug":"christie-43000-jobs-needed-plp-has-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/christie-43000-jobs-needed-plp-has-a-plan","title":{"rendered":"Christie: 43,000 Jobs Needed, PLP Has A Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21783\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21783\" title=\"politicians-playing-politics\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/politicians-playing-poitics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/politicians-playing-poitics.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/politicians-playing-poitics-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/politicians-playing-poitics-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cabinet ministers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday the country needs 43,000 new jobs to reduce the record unemployment levels.<\/p>\n<p>Christie previously said the country needed 30,000 new jobs over the next three to four years, though he never committed to creating that number of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had to quantify the jobs, it now appears 43,000 Bahamians are unemployed,\u201d he told reporters outside the Cabinet Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country obviously needs to be in a position where we begin a national conversation on how we are going to go about sourcing those jobs, [and] where they\u2019re going to come from. That\u2019s what this whole process is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Statistics, unemployment in The Bahamas was 15.9 percent at the time the last survey was conducted in November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>It was 21.2 percent in Grand Bahama.<\/p>\n<p>In its charter, the Progressive Liberal Party says it created 22,000 jobs in its last term in office (2002-2007) and committed to surpassing that figure over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, the PLP\u2019s job creation plan will be anchored in four areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> effective promotion of The Bahamas at home and abroad;<\/li>\n<li>the removal of impediments to business so that government facilitates the growth of business;<\/li>\n<li>increasing opportunities to dramatically expand the role of Bahamians as employers<\/li>\n<li>the government as a direct investor in carefully defined circumstances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Christie said it is important that his government be given an opportunity to achieve those goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe set out a path to doing those sorts of things and we are going to follow the path that we set out and we are going to let the country follow with us as we go along and proceed,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to protect our country and therefore we have to find innovative ways to create jobs to get Bahamians back home to give them a sense of belonging in their own country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have a comprehensive program that we are going to initiate and the challenges are formidable, but we are up to the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nassau Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Perry Christie said the country needs 43,000 new jobs to reduce the record unemployment levels and that the PLP has a comprehensive program they will initiate to address the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[18],"tags":[29,40,325,60],"class_list":["post-21782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-jobs","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21782","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}