NiCE project opens to jobless Caymanians
(CNS): The Ministry of Planning, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure (PAHI) will begin accepting applications for this year’s pre-Christmas National Community Enhancement Project (NiCE) on Monday. The NiCE winter clean-up project includes the beautification and maintenance of roadsides, parks, cemeteries and beaches. Jobless Caymanians can sign up for the work at a single registration event at the Lions Community Centre, 905 Crewe Road in George Town, at 9am.
The clean-up is set to commence the following week for three weeks. The work pays CI$10 per hour for regular workers and $12 for supervisors.
“Given the economic challenges some of our people are experiencing, and the additional financial strains of the holiday season, it is good we can provide this opportunity for them at this time,” Infrastructure Minister Jay Ebanks said.
“The NiCE project since its inception has ensured that Caymanians and residents benefit from a clean and healthy environment. The ministry will continue to partner with the public and private sector in delivering the programme to provide solutions and improve the well-being of our people in keeping with government’s broad outcomes.”
As well as at the registration day, application forms for the project are now available at all district libraries, MP offices, the Needs Assessment Unit, Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman and the public reception desk at the Government Administration Building.
Applicants are required to show proof of immigration status at registration. This includes photo identification and voter card, birth certificate, passport, Caymanian status certificate or a stamp in a valid passport for Caymanians, and photo identification and Residency with Employment Rights Certificate as the spouse of a Caymanian or stamp in a valid passport for persons married to Caymanians.
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I do not doubt there will be a meeting in the Cayman Islands like the World Global Summit. Perhaps this subject is relevant for another form and follow-up.
On another note, I can testify that we who own properties and businesses can likewise expect to see an influx of Cuban nationals looking for job opportunities and apartments to rent.
I have met two here that do not speak English.
This English barrier will need to be addressed and rectified.
It will either be the ‘darts’ or the ‘ole Spirits’ of Cayman that will shape this economy and customs. Only the Lord over all know the hearts of the highest.
“A rich man’s wealth is his strong city.”
A lesson is here to learn for everyone who is not wealthy like Sir Dart or the Government of the land.
The up-and-coming will get a chance to grow and sustain generational value. We will get that chance when we assist the poorer class coming into our country.
Evil will always be in the land; the vices will prosper until the end. Do not doubt someone in the land who is unfavored.
We can expect them to turn the tables around for good. If money fail, we will eat.
And the glory of winning a lottery ticket cannot compare with the triumphant hike to the all-knowing.
My generation does have the key to the city.
They best believe it. We who fall because of evil
will live because of all who kept the Spirit alive
with the great I am.
Anyone that gets busted for DUI should have to serve community service hours on one of these chain gangs – enough free labour to make these all year round and really clean up the place.
Some comments here are disrespectful to the intellect of some Caymanians. I hope more Caymanian Entrepreneurs rise in their own land.
What kind of Cayman Kind are you displaying when you speak on another one’s intellect like they are barred from ever seating with the elites.
I hope you in high positions hire a Caymanian that can satisfy the basic soft skills. This seasonal work is only the beginning of something more next year. It is my prayer that the Caymanians, ‘looked down on’, will be progressive in the job force. I hope to see the numbers increase permanently.
I honestly cannot tell who Cayman Kind is sometimes. There are still some good Cayman business owners that will work with you having graduated from High School or having a willingness to work.
On my father, Caymanians (“the Indigenous people”) do not need any bad influences from overseas countries. They do not need bad influence from fellow Caymanians neither. Every place has its vice, but not everyone should follow it – by following the vice, a people will fall and give away their value, and be overlorded.
If you are a fellow Caymanian, and you have at least a High School Diploma and the willingness to work, be of good courage. Be assured that someone is working diligently to put you all on (“the less fortunate”).
You who see this need to understand that they are Caymanians with good Christian values and integrity. So, if this was a job offer, take my word for it. Someone who has gone through the persecutions and criticisms will be a part of the significant help.
Caymanians are not “indigenous” to anywhere. Caymanians have come from everywhere to Cayman. Caymanian basically means “I was here first or before you” so give it up. Also CIG has always made it easier to hire Caymanians over expats so that is not the problem. The problem is the many unemployables that have given Caymanians a bad reputation as usable workers. Try and fix that first then everything else will work.
Thank you for your input.
Thank you for your input. You genuinely care.
Read and notice the comments concerning this topic and the amount of anti-Caymanian hate and prejudice it is amazing how many work and call these islands home but deep down has boiling hate for the “I was here first or before you” inhabitants as they have so now labelled the Caymanians.
I hope and pray that Caymanians start waking up and start protecting this nation for their children.
Start taking more of a stance like the Saudis enforcing work protection in certain segments of the workforce to only Caymanian workers.
Stop outright selling land to ex-pats, going forward land leases only.
what 8:25 said i think that person sound like a slave driver and if that person were doing their job they wouldnt have time to be driving around watching people.
They get paid for work, not leisure.
A slave driver? Just for expecting people to do the job they have been paid for?
Sounds like you are a real asset to your employer.
All I know is, whoever is in charge of these acronyms needs to be fired. There’s far too many of them firstly, and how exactly does “National Community Enhancement Project” = “NiCE”
You’re looking for the Acronym Regulator & Standardisation Executive.
Haha comment of the year
this should be done all day every day by prisoners and especially those who should get community service as punishment for agressive traffic offenses.
how many littering fines have the rcips issued this year?
will wait for answer.
How many people have you seen littering? I see the litter, but I rarely see anyone actually dropping stuff.
All the freaking time
7:07, sit in a car beside Chill Spot restaurant in Savannah and you will see their clientele throwing down their food and drinks containers in the bushes by the Savannah United Church.
2:44 that’s all these British American and Canadian folk that eat breakfast lunch and dinner there.
We should have had tourism stipend recipients drilling in armadillos, painting and stenciling bike lanes and transitions when we closed 2 years ago. For the sake of traffic, get on with it please. Direct this season’s paint-slingers to achieve something non-cosmetic that will add great value and alleviate congestion. They might even be proud of the lanes when they’re done, like other urban centers around the world re-embracing the bicycle.
It is sad to say, but even when given easy and menial tasks at 66% above the minimum wage that should be given for this work, most of the workers don’t actually work.
I’ve driven past numerous work crews over the years. Usually there is a group of 6 or 8 people, maybe 1 is actually doing anything and the rest are walking along the road carrying an empty bin bag with a dazed expression, or sat on a wall looking at their phone.
They know they are going to get paid good money for doing nothing so why bother to exert yourself.
True, because there is no accountable foreman that takes responsibility for that productivity, who would otherwise secure expectations and results with their own head in the guillotine. There are missing middle-echelon supervisors for many menial tasks and legions of entry positions in the Cayman Islands, sadly. This is why we have to pay twice, and sometimes three or four times to get something done properly. The NRA/Dart often pave or curb roads on our dollar, only to rip them up the following week.
Regardless of that, I must say that the difference is noticeable around West Bay after the clean up.
That is a sad commentary on the huge problem of garbage being dumped on the side of the road in WB.
‘jobless caymanians’…….the greatest fairytale you will ever hear….
excuse the obvious question….
but why are these people not working when we have 40,000 work permit holders on island????
Because a lot of them can’t hold down long-term employment for various reasons but can manage to work for a few days/weeks at a time as casual labourers. However that casual labourer work is getting harder and harder to find. (Even hiring someone to clean my yard I want them to come every week with as little hassle to me as possible.)
Most of these people will be long-term unemployable because of drugs/alcohol, education deficiency, mental/emotional infirmity, etc. NICE doesn’t address the root problems, no one suggests it does, it is simply a form of work-for-social-services and shows how many people on the social services rolls are willing to work, but need other support to transition into full-time employment.
No qualifications?
paying locals who refuse to work…to pick up trash…when rcips will not enforce littering laws….
welcome to a wonderland hell.
Sadly our people do need these handout job’s.
Why is there not more forensic reviews of these local companies HR department’s hiring practice, pull their account payments for overseas employee’s that aren’t even residing in the territory of Cayman.
Ask why so many landscaping, builders and trades companies can have swarms of expats but Caymanians are lined up at the Lions center willing to work for $10 an hour, might I suggest they raise their salaries to that amount as well.
This is a shame and disgrace a country with a surplus of jobs and every roadblock possible is laid to not utilize it’s own citizens as the preferred labor force.
The nepotism of expats ensuring expats live and enjoy the Cayman dream first and foremost has gone too far.
The reason is they can’t get the same amount of work done by Caymanians as they do with expats. Even Caymanians know that hiring Caymanians is a losing bet. Forcing a business to take on Caymans unemployables is anti business and shooting yourself in the foot. The only workable solution is for The unemployables to start stepping up and prove to the islands businesses that they are good enough to hire again. It is and has always been and will always be up to them to step up or shut up.
Are you aware of the segregation on some worksites, in which certain islanders refuse to work with other islands and absolute refusal to work with the locals as members of their work crews, there are lots your bigoted anti-Caymanian mind doesn’t know about the real world on this island.
What a pathetic self pitying pile of tripe.
Truth sucks, wondering how many Caymanians you have ensured didn’t get a job or promotion. At least I have enough balls to share my honest opinion of what is happening in the country, while all you can do is a half-assed attempt to ridicule someone to try and stop them from having the right to speech, guess what we are starting to speak up, sadly as an island we can’t flush your type from the system quickly enough.
Welfare state for sure and there will be many unemployed Jamaicans doing this too
Dog whistle.
This is what we get when the DG continues to allow that the jobs and positions for CIG Expat permit workers do not have to be advertised when their contract is up.
The expat’s contract is just renewed without any advertising of the positions for eligible Caymanians.
Why Mr. DG?
So you are saying the ones who did not get a job at CIG have no other option in life but to sign up for NiCE garbage pick up, since there no other option and all because expat took dem job ??? Wow, how convenient to blame foreigners for everything. Seriously.
Sounds like it a question for the Dep. Govt.
Yes we are to blame not all of us but those merchant class who have dominated this rass country for hundreds of years now both local and foreign persons. Yes they are the ones who brought in the cheap labor and llobbied government to keep the minimum wage low and ergo we are now inundated with foreign workers . Yes caymanians aren’t fighting for the $6.00 an hour job but they still electing spineless politicians who are beholden to the Merchant Rass for their political help in elections
Cayman we have a problem and truthfully speaking it is ourselves who have become spineless, give up give in to the politicians, and tob the foreign workers in all areas.
It is time to rise uo and take your stand Cayman and I mean Caymanians at heart we have lost ground but we still area force to be reckoned with all we have to do is stand up and fight together, protect each other against whoever.
We are the children of the Land He Hath Founded upon the Seas”.
They need people who can actually get the job done everyday and on time. If they can’t do the job well then they are not eligible. Read this many, many times a day and it might sink in.
2:27 you must be asleep. that us complete rubbish and you know it. Poor you.
2:27 they are no expat permit holders in the Civil Service. Non Caymanians civil servants are given 2 year contracts.
remember that over 70% of the Civil service are Caymanians.
they are non Caymanians teachers, police and prison officers, social workers and prosecutors.
I am not aware of one Caymanian who is qualified for these posts being denied.
stop posting nonsense at 2:27am. Clearly your little brain is tired.
You are not aware.
Is that because the posts were not advertised when the contracts were renewed?
1.53pm Lucky non-Caymanians if you get 2 year Govt. contracts with free healthcare etc. Us Caymanians get 1 month & 3 month contracts with no benefits.
Lucky non-Caymanians if you get 2 year Govt contracts with benefits. Us Caymanians get 1 month – 3 month contracts with no benefits.
If your caymanian and cant get a job then check a) how you look, b) your attitude c) how many convictions you have and finally d) a private sector company actually has to make money unlike government department who can afford to employ jokers
FOOD FOR THOUGHT :
Permit me to shed some light on the role of the state in providing for its citizens in times of dearth. From as far back as the fourteenth century , the Lord Mayor of London, Adam Bamme, procured corn from overseas to serve the city and its environs in a period of threatened famine. Not stopping at this step,he threw in a quqntity of grain from the public supply in order to reduce prices by lessening the demand.
Not that these gestures were any graet novelty ,communal provision of corn for the needy had been common from the Middle Ages and no doubt took its precedent from practices in ancient Rome. Later ,the responsibility of the state came to be entrenched in England when a law of 1544 was aimed at hoarders of grain and when Justices of the Peace were instructed to search the premises of hoarders and force them to bring their surpluses to market. Today we cry “socialism”,but this system, which was expanded under Queen Elizabeth 1, was evidently considered necessary lest the ‘haves’ among the population monopolize so much of the country’s produce as to starve the ‘have nots’.
But even prior to this time , Pericles of Athens, father of democracy as we now know it, was even more innovative. By providing pay for public officials – a gesture which may not impress us nowadays as radical, though it was revolutionary at that time, in that it enabled men of poor means to occupy high positions of state. Pericles made another innovation whose motives and advisability ,almost thirty centuries after are subject to dispute and rancour. Just as today we are of two minds regarding the “merits “of government “doles “and “handouts”,so too were the contemporaries of Pericles as to the worth of his establishment of the socalled “Theoric Fund” established to provide for needy citizens.
The gesture has puzzled lawmakers over the ages and the verdict of its efficacy is still a matter of debate. This is especially so when we allow the ‘acquisitive motive’ to creep into the arrangements. When when this happens we suffer the intrusion of an insidious force which corrupts and corrodes. And yet we should not deny needed public relief merely because we find ourselves in a much more favourable position than our neighbours.The “Theoric Fund” set up by Pericles represented a noble social measure and went far toward recognising the responsibility of the state toward its citizens. It is my studied observation that the NICE initiative is similarly the recognition by the state of its responsibility towards its citizens.
As we approach this season of charity and goodwill , let us determine not to be numbered among those whose besetting sin is an overwhelming ambition for self, coupled with a terrifying insensitivity to the suffering of others.
Roy, the Lord Mayor of London never invited thousands from other countries and fed them at the expense of the people of London whilst failing to make appropriate arrangements for the people of his own city.
Many, perhaps even most, of the persons participating in this program will have foreign accents and foreign cultures and foreign parents and foreign families. Some will take time off their jobs, or call in sick, to feed at the trough, and send extra funds “home”. What does that tell you of the quality of our own Lord Mayors – and their ability to look after the Caymanian people?
Mr. Bodden, it’s very difficult to understand what you are trying to say sometimes, although you speak English and are well-studied. I enjoy reading your comments, but could be aided by an introduction and a conclusion. Thanks for sharing.
And scum will continue to throw food containers, beer bottles and everything in between, out their car windows.
Imagine how they live and what is going on in their households. I can never understand what kind of background these people have to finish stuffing their bellies with KFC or something similar to then throw the food containers right where they find themselves at. Nasty to the core. That lack of cleanliness starts from home.
I agree 10:06am. This type of slum mentality is created by the importation of have nots in these islands. They bring what are used to at home with them.
Condoms too, don’t forget the condoms.
A continuance of the welfare state the PPM started and PACT continues….you greedy stupid men are destroying the future of Caymanians.
What are you saying?
That person is saying that a welfare state is not the long term solution.
You talking about members of the PACT or what?
There is no future for those who will not work hard and take responsibility for themselves. This is a fact of life in every place in the world and will not change because you are Caymanian. There is a future for every man and woman who will work for it.
NICE is encouraging low life and laziness. Why feed and pay those lazy people to waste time doing nothing. Some sleeping under the trees while a few hustling to get something done. Stop wasting taxpayers money and put it to better use.