IN JAMAICA: Chinese Firm Complains About Slow Processing Of Work Permits..... Are the Chinese about to buyout JAMAICA?

Kellier

A COMPLAINT by Chinese company COMPLANT about the slow pace at which its work permits are being processed by Jamaica has taken Derrick Kellier by surprise.

Kellier, Jamaica's labour minister, told The Gleaner yesterday that his ministry has a responsibility to do the required due diligence on all work permits.

"In the interest of the country - security reasons and otherwise, and the protection of our own workers - we have to do the due diligence on these requests.

Following a closed-door meeting with a Jamaican delegation headed by Prime Minister Simpson Miller in Beijing, China, recently, Dr Carlton Davis, chief adviser to the prime minister, said COMPLANT was desirous of importing skilled workers for the modernisation of their sugar plants.

"I am not going to pre-judge, but what the people are saying is that they need certain technical skills and they want that to be expedited," Davis said.

COMPLANT, which has acquired a number of Jamaican sugar factories, operates as Pan Caribbean Sugar Company Limited. read more....