{"id":31415,"date":"2026-08-14T20:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=31415"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:21:41","slug":"labour-ministry-takes-jobs-services-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/labour-ministry-takes-jobs-services-to-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Ministry takes jobs, services to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by David Clarke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jobseekers and members of the public today had an opportunity to access employment opportunities and a range of government services without having to visit multiple agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Labour and Manpower Planning held an integrated outreach at Stabroek Market Square, bringing together its recruitment, labour and skills-training services, along with health services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one-day event brought together several government agencies, including the Central Recruitment and Manpower Agency, the Board of Industrial Training, the Occupational Safety and Health Department, the Department of Co-operatives and the Department of Labour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief Recruitment and Manpower Officer Yolanda Grant says the Central Recruitment and Manpower Agency is working to connect jobseekers with employers across a range of fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cWe have jobs from the highest level. We have jobs available in the medical field, we have human resources, we also have low-level jobs. We have jobs to meet everybody who&#8217;s looking for some kind of job<\/em><\/strong>,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grant says the Ministry plans to take the outreach model to other communities, with a job fair planned for Region Three in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry says the continued outreach is part of efforts to make its services more accessible to citizens, particularly those who may have difficulty visiting its offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by David Clarke Jobseekers and members of the public today had an opportunity to access employment opportunities and a range of government services without having to visit multiple agencies. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[488,370,806,412,405],"class_list":["post-31415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ministry-of-labour-and-manpower-planning","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31417,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31415\/revisions\/31417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}