Source document
St. Kitts and Nevis: Retraining the Sugar Workers
Has everything in it been taken?
CompleteReviewed 8 Oct 2026
Reviewed. Everything in it that belongs in the tables has been taken.
What the document holds
OECS Secretariat report (Oct 2005) on retraining sugar workers: 1,406 SSMC employees in July 2005 (80% full-time), about 12% of the labour force, EC$44 million severance package (all already recorded); US$6 million Post-Sugar Social Reconstruction Project; worker survey tables (age, sex and department of 1,200 workers; education; skills; training requests of 371 respondents out of 1,108 displaced workers aged 15-62) and an employer survey of 105 establishments (about 600 forecast job openings). The survey tables are labour-market detail with no indicator in this dataset and no programme numbers; not recorded.
What it supports
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About the document
What it covers Survey of SSMC workers at the July 2005 closure: headcount, share of labour force, severance, training needs.
Notes Prepared with UNDP funding at the request of the Government of St Kitts and Nevis. Figures on severance and share of the labour force differ from the IMF (see kna-sugar-imf-cr07141).
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