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<SPAN class=Subheadline>New hotel to open Dec 15</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>By Carl Gilchrist Business Observer staff reporter
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>Thousands of persons rushed recruitment centres in St Ann between Tuesday and Thursday last week in an effort to gain employment at the Bahia Principé hotel in Pear Tree Bottom, which is scheduled to open at the start of the 2006/2007 winter tourist season on December 15.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The first phase, which comprises just over 700 of the projected 1,918 rooms of the US$200-million resort, is on schedule for the December opening.
The recruitment drive, held in Runaway Bay, Brown's Town and St Ann's Bay and supervised by HEART/NTA, was to select workers for all levels of employment at the Spanish-owned hotel.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=330 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Job hunters wait to be interviewed for employment at the Bahia Principé Hotel in St Ann. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>All three centres were overwhelmed with job seekers, a representative of HEART told the Business Observer on Thursday at the Baptist Church hall in St Ann's Bay.<P class=StoryText align=justify>When the Business Observer visited the location shortly after midday on Thursday, hundreds of persons were seen on the compound waiting their turn to be called into the interview area.
With the midday sun blazing, job seekers had to seek shelter under trees and elsewhere on the property.<P class=StoryText align=justify>One woman, who said she had been at the centre since 8:30 am, decided to give up as she had run out of patience.
"I am going home because it doesn't make sense. Too many people are here and look where I am," she complained, as she stood closer to the back of one of two lines from which applicants were being called to the hall for interviews.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Persons who had proceeded from the lines and were given numbers, lined both the upper and lower corridors of the hall, waiting for their number to be called.
Sales manager at Bahia Principé, Vanessa da Silva, told the Business Observer that she was unable to give the specific number of persons to be employed at this time, but said the figure would be high.<P class=StoryText align=justify>When former Prime Minister PJ Patterson broke ground for the hotel last October, it was stated that upon completion the resort would employ 2,000 persons.
Da Silva said the majority of the employees would be Jamaicans, who would work alongside employees from Mexico, Spain, Germany and Portugal.
<SPAN class=Subheadline>New hotel to open Dec 15</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>By Carl Gilchrist Business Observer staff reporter
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>Thousands of persons rushed recruitment centres in St Ann between Tuesday and Thursday last week in an effort to gain employment at the Bahia Principé hotel in Pear Tree Bottom, which is scheduled to open at the start of the 2006/2007 winter tourist season on December 15.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The first phase, which comprises just over 700 of the projected 1,918 rooms of the US$200-million resort, is on schedule for the December opening.
The recruitment drive, held in Runaway Bay, Brown's Town and St Ann's Bay and supervised by HEART/NTA, was to select workers for all levels of employment at the Spanish-owned hotel.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=330 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Job hunters wait to be interviewed for employment at the Bahia Principé Hotel in St Ann. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>All three centres were overwhelmed with job seekers, a representative of HEART told the Business Observer on Thursday at the Baptist Church hall in St Ann's Bay.<P class=StoryText align=justify>When the Business Observer visited the location shortly after midday on Thursday, hundreds of persons were seen on the compound waiting their turn to be called into the interview area.With the midday sun blazing, job seekers had to seek shelter under trees and elsewhere on the property.<P class=StoryText align=justify>One woman, who said she had been at the centre since 8:30 am, decided to give up as she had run out of patience.
"I am going home because it doesn't make sense. Too many people are here and look where I am," she complained, as she stood closer to the back of one of two lines from which applicants were being called to the hall for interviews.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Persons who had proceeded from the lines and were given numbers, lined both the upper and lower corridors of the hall, waiting for their number to be called.
Sales manager at Bahia Principé, Vanessa da Silva, told the Business Observer that she was unable to give the specific number of persons to be employed at this time, but said the figure would be high.<P class=StoryText align=justify>When former Prime Minister PJ Patterson broke ground for the hotel last October, it was stated that upon completion the resort would employ 2,000 persons.
Da Silva said the majority of the employees would be Jamaicans, who would work alongside employees from Mexico, Spain, Germany and Portugal.