Work permit freeze proposal brings BTE house down
Dwayne Seymour
(CNS Elections): The idea of freezing all work permits until all Caymanians looking for employment have a job was a popular suggestion among the crowd that attended Thursday’s forum for candidates in Bodden Town East. The event at the Bodden Town Civic Centre, which had the largest crowd for the Q&A sessions so far, revealed overwhelming support for Dwayne Seymour’s idea of putting a stop to foreign workers until locals can secure decent jobs.
A number of questions touched on the need to help unemployed locals and the ability of those in jobs to advance, as all four candidates wrestled to appear tough on bosses employing foreign workers.
At the third forum hosted by the Chamber of Commerce, with independent candidates Arnold Berry and Dwayne Seymour, the PPM’s Osbourne Bodden and CDP candidate Robert Bodden, immigration and the perception that Caymanians are not getting their fair share was one of the most popular issues raised by candidates and welcomed by the crowd.
Berry said Caymanians should come first, second and third and that businesses have to be told to give locals a chance, but Seymour brought the house down as the audience cheered when he said politicians had to be willing to meet with the companies and stop them from carrying on business as usual, and suggested introducing a moratorium on work permits.
Seymour, an MLA in the 2009-2013 UDP government who is now running as an independent, said there was a need for a more effective watchdog over bad employers who fire local people and replace them with permit holders.
“On day one, the first thing is to put a freeze on permits and sort out the unemployed,” he stated, saying no more permits should be approved for workers coming from overseas until the 1,500 to 2,000 unemployed locals are in work.
Robert Bodden (CDP) said that on day one after the elections, the new government should call a meeting to speak with bosses because no one is representing them and locals are forced to compete against permit holders, who are being promoted and advanced by their bosses over Caymanians.
Meanwhile, Osbourne Bodden, the current minister who deals with the unemployed, accepted that educated Caymanians are not getting the chances they should. He said experienced and qualified people cannot get work and those that do cannot get through the glass ceiling.
But he warned that employers must embrace local workers, otherwise it will have a detrimental impact on the wide fabric of society. He said that employers themselves will suffer in the long term if they don’t include Caymanians in the economic success.
He also hinted that the PPM government may be coming around to the idea of allowing workers to see business staffing plans — though government has resisted lobbying by MLA Ezzard Miller (North Side), who for a long time has pushed for public access to these documents, which spell out the present and future employment goals of larger firms.
Bodden pointed out that the Caymanians working in large firms do not get to see them, so they don’t know what is going on and “are being fooled around”, as he implied that this may be a policy shift for the Progressives.
Getting tough on immigration, limiting or freezing permits, preventing promotion of foreign workers, changing the permanent residency system to eliminate the right of foreigners to get status and many other policy ideas that would cut employers’ access to foreign workers has been a strong theme for many of the independent candidates, who still blame Cayman’s significant dependence on foreign workers for many of the country’s socio-economic ills.
The next Chamber forum is scheduled for Tuesday evening in Prospect.
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GOD HELP BODDEN TOWN!.
i understand how contentious this statement is but as a executive with over 20 years experience in various senior positions in the tourism industry I can say this there is much truth to the glass ceiling and anti Caymanian sentiments voiced here in this comment section. I’ve seen and experienced first-handed how brand hotels have looked over qualified Cayman candidates in favour of expat workers. I do believe that the system is failing Caymanians in favour of expat workers and this needs to change, if there is no hope for advancement then we might as well move off the island. Recently i was told that when applying for a vacant position ( of which i was more than qualified for) that its was filled but they could see what was available stateside. I was completely taken aback that as a Caymanian i could not get a job in the country where i live but had to more to the US for opportunity. Over the years i have seen many fellow caymanians leave the industry only because the senior management only wanted expats for the job. Doing research on Linkedin on job posting in the tourism sector i found many expats were regularly promoted from junior to senior positions over the course of their term limit, My question why are they not investing in training Caymanians to ultimately take over these positions, this is what the permit process is for…to let the employer hire qualified people to train Caymanians for their replacement. I think its hard for people of privilege to understand what Caymanians go through. Granted there is no easy solution to this bad situation but the WP board needs to have their hands held to the fire and push back on the employers till they get the message.
You are visitors to this country…be respectful!
2.44-in the hotel business, especially in a big chain, you are expected to move to other countries if you want to get on, to gain the experience needed for managing a multinational business. That you would not be aware of that makes me wonder how qualified you are. But well done anyway, sounds good for you.
“Various senior positions” and you do not even know to proofread your text before posting in a public forum? Luckily you posted as ‘anon’ but you still lose the heft of your point with the poor spelling/grammar and typos. I hope you were never allowed to correspond with anyone outside your organization. That’s embarrassing.
And this could be a reason that Caymanians find it difficult to get the higher positions.
I wish I had a red pen to make corrections and send back to you. That’s how I learned when I was in school.
Your sentence format leaves a lot to be desired. Quit in high school I suppose
Well said 2:44pm except you should have said “guests” instead of “visitors”.
One of the many loopholes exploited is the aspect of training. This is not well defined in law and needs to be corrected as to what exactly constitutes training, since some WP holders have no intention of doing so, hence the burden should be on the employer. Caymanians are in their own country and must come first, no buts or excuses.
The message sent must be clearer from the outset to WP holders that they are here to do a specific job for a specific time. WP holders should not be eligible for promotion or transfer between employers. Far too many rights and privileges are being given at the expense of Caymanians. We are feeding the whole world now at the expense of indigenous Caymanians.
So Anon, Caymanians own by far the majority of tourist businesses here, often as silent partners, so why don’t they hire more Caymanians? All of the financial penalties because of work permit fees are against hiring expats but you know the reason why many Caymanians are not hired in the tourism industry. Be honest with yourself.
Here we go, the usual anti-expat drivel that comes out every election…when they all know (or if they don’t, they should not be running for office) that if they do this they kill there own income stream and of finding any way to solve the real problem, which is education. The thing is, I am beginning to suspect that they do not want to cure the education problem, as a much more educated population would not vote for the likes of these people…and some Caymanians wonder why the expats get annoyed and irritable when your politicians call for something to be done to expats every election?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha….Work Permit Freeze?… Ha, ha,ha… SNL can never be compete with our bunch of comedians.
Will the work permit freeze also apply to government hiring expats? I still don’t see a new head for the NWDA. How come?
Perhaps we could make a small start by all good Caymanians to refuse to let a work permit holder clean their cars, or maybe the Government to not allow work permit holders to attend to the gardening outside the Government offices. After this we could then expand the idea and see where we get too!
And in exchange the WP holders can also stop all charitable activities. Only fair right?
Seriously those charitable activities are only done to gain points for their PRs. Check and see how many continue once they have been granted their PR.
Moron, how can you say that when you don’t give PR any more?.
For many, many years there was a moratorium on Status grants, few if any PR grants, and no points system for charitable work, yet organizations such as Pink Ladies, the Pines and the Humane Society were greatly assisted by expat volunteers.
Nearly 100 per cent of charity work is done by ex-pats with no interest in permanency. They are not exactly competing with Caymanians who are generally noticeable by their absence
I did, they continue. What do you do for your community?
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Or government refuse contracts from security companies that don’t employ at least 60% Caymanians to work in the GAB and all government departments at various locations, including schools.
With Leadership such as this is it any wonder why we are going backwards? What a complete moron. What you going to do to make up the windfall in lost permit fees John? Increase fees for everyone else again? How many Caymanians work for you in your businesses compared to expats again?
BTE forgets that Caymanians own our businesses. There are no hoards of conspiring expats are holding back the progression of our countryfolk. Those unhireable or unsuited for promotion are sadly limited by their own history, proficiency, and aptitude (ie. see 2014 NDC CISDUS, and CI Chamber data with just 82% finishing high school, and only 26% achieving a college degree – an improvement over some previous years), not by the artificial belief of class division.
Successfully luring a qualified work permit to the Cayman Islands is out of business necessity. It’s very time consuming and expensive. To create jobs, the government’s responsibility is to create a legislative apparatus that best serves the business community (so the private sector can expand to hiring even mediocre applicants, in the hope that they can be trained) – not to constrict or suffocate progress through affirmative action campaigning. The most GDP-contributing of our Businesses would re-domicile before putting up with directly xenophobic policy or edicts on private sector hiring.
If SOTH, Paul Ryan (whose plane was at our airport last month for a week), and, POTUS, Donald Trump successfully re-haul the IRS and US corporate tax policy – we may see many of our flagship businesses tempted to re-domicile by lower cost of living and better hiring grounds of the USA. Any affirmative action plan here would only serve to accelerate that corporate decision. Aspiring Politicians need to understand what is coming and how that will impact the remaining benefits of locating businesses in the Cayman Islands. It is not a static environment and it has already changed a great deal just in the last 4 years.
One idea at a time. And they are all great ideas. But you cannot act on such an idea if there are other holes in the gaps that need to be filled. It starts with better schooling, where is our Trade School? With all this revenue being made by work permits, why can’t a small portion be invested into a brighter future. They claim we have no experience, give us that experience an we will take back our country. We can become our own educators, engineers, lawyers, entrepreneurs we won’t need anyone from the outside. People say the initiative is not there, but each and every time an idea is brought to the table it is shot down by people like on this post. Yes you have Caymanians who refuse to work for minimum wage, yes you have Caymanians who refuse to work at all, but this isn’t about them this is about US CAYMANIANS WHO STARVE, STRUGGLE, and each and everyday get out there and just BEG to be heard, BEG for an opportunity to be given a chance. And many of times SHOT DOWN BY BUSINESSES THAT PREFER TO HIRE EXPATS. This not only affects us in the work force, they are forcing us to leave our island, they are forcing us to turn to the streets for shelter. Has anyone took into consideration that in order to get a decent 1 bedroom apartment is no less that $800-$1400 a month. If I make minimum wage making $6 that’s $1200 a month $1000 after pension and insurance I’m left with $200 for utilities, gas or bus fair , and food. Now tell how is that fair? How is that right? And you know why this is? Because all of the affordable apartments are accommodating permit workers, who are only here not to invest in this country but to suck it completely dry. But we only see what we want to see, you only look at the Caymanians who don’t want to work an who are fine living the way they live, but what about the others thousands of us who do and are fit and qualified to.
You do realize that you have told those work permit holders that they are not wanted here but they will be allowed to work here for a limited time then booted out. Why would they ever do anything to improve anything here under those terms? Would you? I’ll bet you would spend as little as necessary and send the rest home or save it for when you leave.
Why do so many really fat men hold office or run for office in Cayman? Uneducated and undisciplined pandering to a like minded voter. Fat anti foreigner politicians who never miss six meals a day telling unemployed voters he’ll put food on their tables with jobs, programs, etc… However, THEY feed at the public trough first and foremost.
Please just shut up. Say thank you, and crawl back into your hole. Jumped up politricks at it’s finest. So Mr Seymour, if you’re reading this like I know you will be, answer this. How is the country supposed to grow and prosper? Please deliver your manifesto being sure to address the inadequate drivel that your state schools are producing and what would happen to people renewing work permits? would you like one of those 1500 to take my job? please do me a favour!
Another buffoon on the loose here. Nothing to see, move along.
What a farcical idea. Work permits granted to highly skilled foreigners – attorneys, doctors, engineers etc – are what makes these islands work. The idea that Caymanians could fill the void is absurd. Get real.
Positive discrimination for Caymanians in the workplace makes them LESS employable.
Firstly, it tends to breed in many an entitlement mentality: “The government owes me a job”. “You have to employ me, I’m Caymanian”.
Secondly, prospective employers are less likely to employ a person with an entitlement attitude, and they fear not being able to dismiss a Caymanian due to the protection granted to them by positive discrimination. Honestly, if you were an employer, would you hire a expatriate on a cheap work permit that you can let go without cause or hindrance, or a Caymanian — who turns out to be a poor employee — and will have you in front of the Labour Board in a second because they are “legally protected”?
Thirdly, there is no fulfillment for the young employee who, deep down, knows she only got the job because she’s Caymanian and not on her own merits.
Why does the government not understand that positive discrimination doesn’t work; that it hinders young Caymanians in the job market rather than enhances them. There are three things and three things only that will help young Caymanians get jobs: Education, Education, and Education.
The only positive discrimination we have in the Cayman Islands is
for British/Canadians/Australians in Financial Services and
Jamaicans (close second Guyanese, especially with a PPM government)
and positive discrimination for Jamaicans in ALL jobs, especially civil service (legal, police, teaching, health & social services aka crucial community support institutions)
including being in line before generational Caymanians for those in legal in private sector. Don’t believe me?
Look at the factual, numerical data, not being racist or xenophobic here, just keen observation that can be supported by research if MLAs really wanted to be industry specific when it comes to immigration.
How very Brexit-esque and Trump-ish of Jon-Jon.
Interested to see how the CNS regulars will react to this one.
Cue grotesque hypocrisy in 5…4…3…2..go!
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How Who managed to twist this one to Brexit and Trump I have no idea, but he did. Not that it makes it relevant.
Actually, it couldn’t be more relevant however, and herein lies your problem, it also makes it impossible for you to logically counter.
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*Trump hollered “America First” during his inaugural speech and “Britain First” was the last thing that poor MP Jo Cox (RIP) heard before her own fellow Brit slaughtered her like an animal in the street in a Christian, political, terror attack.
Nevertheless, 3 days later insult was added to her fatal wounds when the UK showed their true colours and sealed her legacy as irrelevant.
You forgot 1
Not sure he knows there is a 1. He thinks he is the One. However his name would be Neo if that were true.
Someone clearly has no media experience.
Anyway, my original post clearly had an impact on you – care to add a useful comment or are you just being you?
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How about a simple “DO fuck off you odious creature”.
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Guess not.
😉
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CNS regulars like yourself?
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Is Seymour”s workforce 100% CaymanIan?
This is like closing the stable door after the has has bolted.
I for one am all for Caymanians having priority in their own country, but the failure that is thousands of unemployable Caymanians lies squarely at the feet of the government and leadership of this country.
The government schools are riddled with wannabe gangsters. It is intimidating for many, teachers included.
Parents don’t seem to care or don’t know what to do. All the students that have presented to me from UCCI do not have any skills that would make them assets to my business.
Most of the kids from private schools that do work experience with us are brilliant. They are well-mannered, obedient, respectful and dilligent. I am not saying that I have any answers, but my observations based on empirical data suggest that knee-jerk statements like those of Mr. Seymour are not addressing the real problem.
The children of these great islands need better nurturing both at home and at school.
Not a single Caymanian baby lies in the crib thinking about how to become a gangster.
The fact that we have so many is an indictment on our national vision, if we have ever had one.
I hope our leaders will seek the wisdom of the Creator rather than seek the short term benefits of cash backhanders as they resolve to turn this place around.
Thousands? 3.5% according to CIG…that would be not a lot at all. Its all fiction…..
Well, it’s not hundreds. What’s the next one up?
I agree with freeze but only until our immigration department and boards start applying the laws and regulations as intended…currently the only requirement seems to be pay fee and an advertisement worded to exclude and discourage Caymanians.
Really immigration not enforcing laws ??? So who refused 1500 work permits last year.
Get facts before responding.
Freezing work permit will only do two things- close down small businesses and force large employers to leave.
over 90% of refusals were domestic and hospitality…the majority of those were denied due to incomplete filings and were subsequently approved on resubmissio….understand the facts before you spout off.
Before making such an ignorant statement perhaps Mr. Seymour should have done a little research.
A lot of people failed to acknowledge that a lot of work permits issued are for jobs that Caymanians do not want to do. Example, domestic helpers, gardeners etcetera. Also, it is hard for Caymanians to accept that there are also skilled jobs which they are not qualified to do. Putting a freeze on work permits until Caymanians find a “decent” job is the most ignorant suggestion.
“Decent job” is subjective.
It has been reported of employers who fully support hiring Caymanians first and what happens? The Caymanian either doesn’t show up to work, are sick at least two days out of the week or are just not reliable. Does Mr. Seymour expect businesses to suffer because there are lazy Caymanians who are not willing to put in what it takes to hold a job?
An employer gave a Caymanian a job, they showed up for a week and then just never came back, when asked what the issue was, said they “didn’t want that kind of job”. So is the problem really that Caymanians can’t get a job or that they are being too selective about what type of job they get?
Some claim that employers are hiring expats because the expats are willing to work for sometimes less than minimum wage but on the same token there are employers willing to pay above minimum wage for jobs but the Caymanian does not want to accept the pay that is appropriate for the job being done, instead they want to dictate what they get paid, which they try to match with their lifestyle. It doesn’t work that way “bobo”.
There are perhaps instances where there appears to be qualified Caymanians, we don’t always know the reason they were not hired. A lot of people look good on paper but when they are interviewed,you realize they may not be a good fit for your corporate culture. The Government cannot force me to hire this person because they are Caymanian and they are qualified on paper if I have determined they may not be the best fit in my organization.
I may get some thumbs down for my post but you all know what I am saying happens and is true.
I am not saying that they are not some instances where qualified Caymanians are really being denied an opportunity for no good reason, all I am saying is a work permit freeze will not solve that issue.
Agree shouldn’t be about decent job but across various sectors. If we have young graduates, middle aged professionals who changed careers and others seeking to improve quality of life, they should be given priority and I agree it might mean shaking the work permit system up until foreign companies and workers remember they’re in another man’s country.
Yep, lets see what the UK has to say about that…
You’re 1000% correct! I am not an employer but I do understand the concerns many of them have even when considering hiring some Caymanians. This idea in my opinion has not been thought out and is IGNORANT!
Anonymous 7:37 pm , you should explain who is the fool here .
I think that Mr. Seymour is the only one that spoke with any honesty and intelligence to the unemployment issue of Caymanians . Mr. O. Bodden is speaking out of both corners of his mouth , the others they don’t even know what they said .
I think that if the voting Caymanians that are going to vote for
Mr. Seymour because of his will to fix the issue , he’s going to need your help after the Election , because none of the other politians would help him fix the issue .
You cannot positively discriminate young Caymanians into jobs, you must educate them and make them competitive in the jobs market; something the politicians of all stripes have failed to do for decades.
For those caymanians and expatriates who are already working together, a policy like this will only widen division among them.
The contention in businesses after such a policy is implemented will be through the roof. Don’t think that firms won’t find a way to take their frustration out on Caymanians, which would in turn have those Caymanians wanting to resign. I can see lots of employeed miserable people on both sides.
You have to look down the road at all the possible implications and repercussions.
The happy marriage you speak of between Caymanians and expats is a rarity unfortunately. The reality is that the contention you “warn” of has been the culture for decades. Firms have long found ways to frustrate Caymanians into resignation with no consequences. That is the reason extreme measures are now being debated.You must work in heaven to have not seen it until now. Lucky you.
10.10…has it occurred to you that some Caymanians are more than capable of frustrating themselves without any help from the expats?
yep smart move you moron! lets freeze all work permits and give the financial and engineering jobs to erm…erm…..Bodden Towns very own international domino playing beach bums…well done seymour.
Those many beach bums that play dominos were engineers, financiers , and representatives for this island before they RETIRED.
so the guy that threw a bottle at my wife was a retired engineer? amazing!
Haha….Trump wannabes. Monkey see Monkey do.
Oh Lord what a dangerous premise. People are mad and hurting but these are dangerous ideas. As a Cayman there are some hard truths that we have to face and the most important is the day that we stop granting work permits is the day that signals to the world the Cayman Islands is not open for business and with the press of a button money will disappear in a second without a trace. We have approximately 60k people on this island 21k are registered voters. You really want to mess with that dynamic that is already not in our favor for 1.5k? What a responsible government should do is cut all the unnecessary bureaucracy and barriers to Caymanian entrepreneurs. Small businesses are the backbone of these islands as all funds generated here stay here and keep circulating around the economy to benefit everyone. Messing around with work permits and going down this anti expat road is counterproductive and dangerous. There are some bad employers out there but instead of throwing out the entire basket government needs to implement actionable policies to expose the rotten practices of these rogue employers.
People like to be fooled.
These politicians are all business owner that have employees on work permits.
Have you been to Mr.Seymours business? Try again!
The tragic part is it that it seems that a lot of people agree with this foolish proposal. Nice way to pander to their usual xenophobia.
Caveman economics are wheeled out at election time.
This is all so comical when they talk about freezing permits. Ask Dwayne Seymour and Osbourne Bodden how many permit holders they employ at the security company, gas station and fish place.
But he wasn’t in favour of the permit freeze… so??
Dwayne Seymour has a business? People buy things from him? How?!
How many Caymanians do you see lining up for those positions tho…?
I’ll wait.
This is exactly why freezing of work permits would not work!
Well that makes a lot of sense. If you know nothing about how economies work.
The widespread abuse of local workers and breaches of the immigration law are undeniable. What you are seeing now is a natural consequences of those abuses and of regulators failing to act. It is sad.
Jon Jon for Premier
Ossie is done stick a fork in him
This trump talk might fool Americans but it won’t fool Caymanians. We know that controlled Immigration has been beneficial to our islands. Deal with the unscrupulous employers. Don’t punish all employers.
There goes our helpers work permits
MAGA! We’re not fooled.
There are only two types of politicians who advocate a work permit freeze, the first are Ignorant morons, who genuinely believe their poorly thought out bullshit. The second (much more dangerous) are those that know it is a hoax, and are willing to sell their integrity to pander to populist rhetoric.
Joke Joke at it again!!
A work permit freeze across the board is the most stupid , populist, bullshit of all! Imagine a small Cayman start up business that plans to hire 20 Caymanians, but before they can open their doors, they need the services of a specialist to make their business work. Work permit freeze means they cannot operate. 20 Caymanians out of jobs! Brilliant! George Ebanks expounded this bullshit when running for office in Bodden Town 25 years ago. Are you still buying this illogical crap now?
What a moron.
Bit harsh on morons.
What an insult to the actual morons.
I am just a visitor here, but when reading this article, I wonder, what successful business became such, anywhere in the world, by hiring and promoting by dictate rather than by best suited for the job? Are those being passed over the best suited? Will Cayman’s brand deteriorate as full employment becomes a reality at the expense of quality? Your competitors are a reality.
I implore the ppl of Grand Cayman not to vote for this idiot. There are certain jobs Caymanians aren’t willing to do. Who will be cooks/cleaners/domestic helpers/garbage collectors/construction workers?? We also need foreign workers for more prestigious jobs too. Cayman is not fully equipped with Lawyers, Doctors, Accountants, Teachers etc. We need expat workers to do the menial, low paying jobs that most Caymanians turn up their nose to and the jobs most Caymanians aren’t qualified to do as well. This is not a solution for unemployment. Education is the key!
Signed,
Caymanian
These fellows are right on it. Lets kick all these foreigners out of the island and take it back! All three need to be put into the house! Real sons of the soil – make Cayman great again!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Wild talk. It wouldn’t be the end of the world, but it would sure change the world. I think eventually, most of those 2000 people would be unemployed again. One way or another.
These out of work wannabe politicians will say anything to get elected because they are not qualified to get a good job. Fact is all the hard working educated Caymanians have a job. Why is it that you rarely see a caymanian working in a grocery store, tending bar or working in a restaurant. We all cant be partners in law firms etc. I am old enough to remember when caymanians took those jobs. We better be careful dont think these international a firms cant move somewhere else.
Yep, and those people really need to start thinking about helping dig these Islands out of the dung pile of current and wannabe politicians to do the right thing…fix the education system…
Hahahahahaha
I just can’t stop laughing
Of course a comment like that would bring the house down in a forum of not too smart people.. Donald Trump did the same thing. But when you actually take the reins of power, things are very different as Trump is finding out.. In Cayman, you realise when you have to get them jobs to fulfill your promises that all these brilliant unemployed Caymanians are unemployed for a very good reason, namely, because they are unemployable and you are left saying to yourself as a politician, shit, how do i get out of this? It happened to Winston Connolly. But I agree, no more permits for supermarket checkout clerks, gardeners, auto mechanics, painters, tourist personnel, private school teachers, domestic helpers etc. And no more lawyers, teachers, bankers, corporate managers, law firm partners, hotel managers, condo managers etc until all our own Caymanians are forcibly put in these positions.
By the way, what really productive employment has Dwayne Seymour had since he was last an MLA?
MAGA!
Lol, what a donkey!
I am in the service in industry and am probably one of the only places on SMB that have over 60% Caymanians working for me. If a freeze comes into place and I couldn’t renew my current and or new permits submitted I might as well close as we wouldn’t be able to service our customers the way we want and 15 Caymanians would loose their jobs!
Now lets really look at the true problem with unemployment which no one really wants to talk about, it’s very simple, we have put into our kids minds that they are entitled to jobs, we are caymanian and becuase of this we should have a job, well BS, we need to get an education, we need to stop spoiling our kids, we need our kids to realise what real work is ie clean dishes, wash their clothes, clean your car, gardening sweep the floor. Very simple things that gives our kids work ethics,. Beleive me, I have had to realise that my kids are spoiled and now with the island changing am now teaching them they have to work hard to get what they want.
So back to the above topic, WTF suspend WPs, No we need to make sure our education system is good enough for our youth to get jobs!
So people are expected to vote for someone as blind as this….. what a joke
Does any candidate recognise that 5% unemployment means that 95% of the population is GAINFULLY employed?
For most countries worldwide, that figure is a desirable goal to meet. Politicians need to stop spewing anti-expat rhetoric and deal with the root causes, namely: substandard education, poor parenting and teenage pregnancy.
So no work permits ever, while Cayman looks to find jobs for the unemployable…
Failure what an insane idea
What a fool
Idiot is a much better description!
Let me guess… You are awaiting your PR approval?