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EVOLUTION The company has become a lot more structured in the last 16 years. The last 6-7 years have been challenging with the industry contracting dramatically, the diversity of projects has increased during that time.
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As the recession has hit Grenada hard the pot of projects is less for everyone to go around. The flip side to this is when a project like Sandals comes in the challenges are to meet their timeline, but in order to meet their timeline and to complete the project we had to import skilled labour from St. Lucia, Antigua, and St. Vincent because our labour force is quite finite. It doesn’ t take much to consume all of the local resources.
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The period following Hurricane Ivan was the most challenging time of all. Houses were destroyed and businesses badly crippled, so we had an even larger amount of imported labour. Hundreds of Guyanese, Vincentians, Bajans, St. Lucians, even some Polish workers were imported so we could fulfil the demand from a nation destroyed.
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When we are fully occupied we employ around 250 full time workers, while the Sandals project required 400 workers employed by us directly, so our contribution to NIS and the Government Treasury is considerable.
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We estimate that on average when things are going well, our payroll is around 2.4 million dollars a year, but the first 6 months of 2015 have been very slow we have had to lay off those workers that we can’ t find anything for, but most of them come back as soon as we have the work for them. This has been a pattern for the last 3 years.
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KEEPING CD RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY We were the first company to introduce CAD( Computer Aided Design) into Grenada and recently we have expanded on this; 3-4 years ago we started using the integrative design processes known as the RIVITS programme by Autodesk the makers of AUTOCAD.
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