Topic: workforce

Nepal and India are now among the top five countries for work permits in Cayman, part of a wider shift in where the island sources its workforce across all sectors of the economy.

Professor Mushfiq Mobarak of Yale University delivered a speech to UCCI on the impact of imported labour on Cayman's economic growth.

Retaining Cayman's economic comparative advantage will require a clear, strategic holistic approach that engages all stakeholders.

A newly released survey by Gender Equality Cayman has found persistent gender disparities in the Cayman Islands workforce, as well as notable challenges for Caymanians compared to work-permit holders.

Industry leaders discuss their take on the future of the workforce in the Cayman Islands in a series of roundtable workshops.

Caymanians are earning more on average than expatriates, although the data is heavily skewed by an influx of foreign labour to fill in the lowest paying sectors.

For more than two years, since the COVID-19 pandemic first swept across the globe, leaving a trail of unemployment in its wake, government has been paying stipends of $1,500-a-month to thousands of impacted Caymanians. As the economy bounces back and that programme winds down, its legacy may be a creative new approach to unemployment and training on the islands.

AI will not replace doctors, but it will permit them to treat more patients more effectively and at lower costs. And somehow, I do not think people are quite ready to leave life and death decisions to an iPhone app.

France has all sorts of rules that “protect” employees, but the net effect is that workers suffer because these laws discourage entrepreneurs from creating jobs.

While college is an important and desirable rite of passage for many, policymakers must pay more attention to the segment of the population that is looking for different pathways into the middle class.

Lines are lengthening, applications are piling up, and tales of dysfunction are spilling out. Just another day at the Cayman Islands Department of Immigration.

Recently released testing results from the Cayman Islands Further Education Centre are troubling enough for us to sound an alarm that should alert –...