Tag: Community clean-up project
Island-wide clean-up planned for World Cleanup Day
(CNS): Plastic Free Cayman is coordinating an island-wide clean-up next month to mark World Cleanup Day and to address the build-up of plastic around our shoreline after the two recent tropical storms. The event will take place on Saturday 18 September at eight different locations and the organisation is encouraging people to join in the event.
NiCE workers have barriers to labour market
(CNS): The number of unemployed people who joined the recent summer clean-up initiative fell by almost a quarter compared to previous NiCE programmes, but many of those who were involved had significant barriers preventing them from getting into the wider labour market, government has said. The latest programme finished at the end of last month, […]
Opposition calls for action as NiCE attracts 100s
(CNS): With hundreds of people turning up to register for the government’s National Community Enhancement (NiCE) on Monday, the opposition urged government to take action to help the unemployed. In a statement to the media, Deputy Opposition Leader Alva Suckoo, the spokesperson for labour issues, said the turnout was a symbol of the failure by […]
CIG spent $444k on 750 workers in clean-up project
(CNS): The Cayman government’s Christmas clean-up was lauded a success this week by Community Affairs Minister Osbourne Bodden, who noted that 752 people were able to get some work over the holiday season and that the project cost $25,000 less than it was budgeted for, as he announced that there would be another clean-up later in the […]
