Online feedback

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Recruiters pull plug', about a company contracted to source employment in Canada for licensed practical nurses in Jamaica vowing to cut all ties with the island in six months as it cites bureaucratic roadblocks and a lack of organisational support from the Jamaican Government.

An indictment ?

If Mr Patterson's statements are true, it is a sad indictment on the Government of Jamaica, specifically the minister/Ministry of Health.

- Wato

Why should wetrain for overseas?

Why this company is lambasting the Government for not spending more of poor people's taxes to train nurses so that the company can ship the nurses to work in Canadian hospitals? The Government's responsibility is to spend poor people's taxes, on training Jamaica's nurses to provide service in Jamaica's hospitals. That should be the Government's goal. Subsequently, in time the nurses can decide if they want to migrate to another country.

The beneficiaries in recruiting nurses to work in Canada are the recruiting company and the Canadian government. The recruiting company must understand that they are running a business in Jamaica; part of their company should be a training faculty in Jamaica to produce nurses/workers to export to Canada and other countries. The company shouldn't expect the poor people of Jamaica to foot the bill for their business.

Patriotic Jamaicans are embarrassed that the leaders in Jamaica over the years are such a dismal failure that any Tom, Dick and Harry can disrespect the Government. This is insulting to proud Jamaicans everywhere.

- Lenny

Join us on twitter

Stay connected to The Gleaner, Jamaica's leading source for news and information, on the social media website Twitter. Join the conversation by following us at www.twitter.com/jamaicagleaner.