Prime Minister Gaston Browne has defended the government’s decision to bring in 50 skilled workers from the Dominican Republic, saying the move was necessary to address a shortage of local labour.
Speaking on the Browne and Browne Show, Mr Browne said the workers, mainly carpenters and masons, were contracted to accelerate the delivery of homes under the National Housing programme. He explained that despite two years of advertising, there had been insufficient local applicants with the required skills.
“There are many people who have been waiting years now to get their homes. Some of them have made deposits. What are we supposed to do, sit back and do nothing?” he saidBrowne and Browne Show.
The Prime Minister dismissed opposition criticism, accusing elements of the United Progressive Party (UPP) of spreading a narrative that nationals were being sidelined. He argued that some in the opposition were “hateful” toward CARICOM nationals and Dominicans, while showing no objection to workers from other countries.
Mr Browne also noted that Antigua and Barbuda had previously welcomed foreign labour from Cuba for road rehabilitation projects, questioning why there had been no objections at that time
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This government really has a love affair with whit these people,they are not even Caricom members,Iam very sure that we can find workers from Haiti or other places in the Eastern Caribbean. Don’t understand Antigua and Barbuda,these people don not love or respect Afro descendants,look at how they treat black people in the D.R. ,It doesn’t make sense,no equity in this country
Although not my favorite choice of workers, because of the language barriere that may exist, workers from the DR have a very healthy work ethics. I mean when I see how they work on the job, you wish our construction workers generally speaking were all like that. Just like the Chinese. Their out put is much higher than the local workers. I even remember times when we had Trinidadians working here. Their work ethics was so much higher than the local workers. And furthermore, I do not know for how long any of them will be staying. But Antigua has one of the largers group of Dominican migrants living here. They have their own churches as well. Even in the Catholic Church their is a mass in spanish for them. So they will fit in easily.
The ALP is determined to destroy the country with these foreign degenerates. Antiguan jobs should go to Antiguans! No to foreign scabs!
Any Antiguan that truly believes Gaston Browne loves us is out of their cotton picking minds. No one can convince me we do not have enough skilled workers here. These people are to sure up his hold on power, the fellow is power drunk. TEK WARNING PEOPLE
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