Labour Ministry sends 14,434 workers abroad under Overseas Employment Programme

A total of 14,434 Jamaicans were placed in jobs abroad last year under the Ministry of Labour and Social Security's Overseas Employment Programme.

Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dione Jennings, in making the disclosure, said of the total, 8,255 workers or 57 per cent travelled to Canada under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme.

She was speaking at a send-off ceremony for 96 workers to the North American country at the Ministry's Overseas Employment Centre in Kingston on Friday.