By The Caribbean Camera Inc. on April 17, 2024 By Neil Armstrong Jamaica’s Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles Jr. has announced plans to improve the Overseas Employment Program, better known as the Farmwork Program. This follows recommendations that a fact-finding team made in April 2023 and a visit that the minister made to farms in … Continue reading Jamaican government plans to improve overseas farm work program
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Register for this March 7th event and join Canada's High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency Emina Tudakovic, Jamaica's Minister of Labour and Social Security, the Honourable Pearnal Charles Jr. M.P., Dr. Natalie Dietrich Jones, Research Fellow, SALISES, The UWI, and Joy Kelly for a discussion of the Canadian Farm Worker Program. The Canadian Farm Worker … Continue reading Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program: March 7th, 2024 8:30 am. Discussing the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program between Canada and Jamaica
Watch this CBC Documentary Series on CBC Gem What I see today in Canada is the exact system of plantation labour that has ravaged the Caribbean Chris Ramsaroop · CBC Docs · Posted: Nov 20, 2023 4:26 PM EST | Last Updated: November 20 Black Life: Untold Stories reframes the rich and complex histories of Black people in Canada, dispelling … Continue reading November 29, 2023… Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Canada: Part of CBC Series on Black Life in Canada
Published: September 6, 2023 By Sean McNeely Julie-Ann McCausland, a former civil servant and Justice of the Peace in Jamaica, is seeking to highlight the experiences of women in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). A second-year PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Women & Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) in the Faculty of Arts & Science, McCausland is examining … Continue reading September 6, 2023… “Alot of hardship”: Researcher explores the experiences of women who are seasonal workers
On April 30, 2020, the Canada-Caribbean Institute, anchored by The University of the West Indies (The UWI) and Brock University in Ontario, Canada hosted an online forum on Seasonal Farm Workers in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic. While the COVID-19 pandemic has locked down travel around the world, over the past few weeks one group of … Continue reading April 30, 2020… Seasonal Farm Worker Issues during COVID-19: An online Forum
While the COVID-19 pandemic has locked down travel around the world, over the past few weeks one group of necessary workers have made their annual return to Niagara. Nearly 55,000 migrant farm workers come to Canada each year to work in farms, greenhouses and other agricultural settings across the country, with many taking jobs in … Continue reading April 27, 2020… Online discussion to aid migrant workers during COVID-19 pandemic