Tag: unemployment
ESO to begin workforce survey
(CNS): Officials from the Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) are urging the public to cooperate with their enumerators who will begin going door-to-door to at over a 1,000 random homes on Sunday 5 March to conduct the Labour Force Survey for this spring. The survey collects data from people currently living in the Cayman Islands […]
Jobless total falls to new low of 3.9%
(CNS): A new Labour Force Survey has found that the total number of people out of work in the Cayman Islands this spring had fallen to 3.9%, the lowest jobless figure since 2007. The latest report from the Economics and Statistics Office indicates that the rate of unemployment among locals has also fallen significantly, from […]
Work permits climb towards 23,000
(CNS): The number of work-permits held by Cayman employers during the first three months of this year rose by 6.3% when compared to the same time period in 2015. According to the latest quarterly report from the Economics and Statistics Office, there were 22,295 at the end of March, as demand for foreign labour continued […]
Local unemployment falls to 6.2%
(CNS): The latest Labour Force Survey suggests that the unemployment rate fell to 6.2% among Caymanians, down from the spring high of over 8% and 7.9% in the autumn of 2014. The overall unemployment rate in the Cayman Islands, which includes expatriates, permanent residents and other non-Caymanians as well as local workers, declined to 4.2%, […]
Our own worst enemy
MM writes: More than 80% of the recent burglaries, female assaults, local murders and other community disrupting crimes have been performed by Caymanians — and as a Caymanian I am keen to point this out. It is unfortunate that as a community and a native people our only defence for our own faults is to blame […]
Educated jobless running at 14.3%
(CNS): The recently revealed report by the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee has confirmed long-held concerns that a significant number of the unemployed in Cayman are educated individuals that are unlikely to benefit from a minimum wage. The research, based on the Labour Force Survey, said the unemployment rates of those with at least a complete […]
