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Jamaica - 2006
Early Works Programme Delivers Local Benefits
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The Early Works Programme—phase one of an expansion project at Jamalco's
alumina refinery in Halse Hall, Clarendon, that began in 2005—delivered substantial employment opportunities for the local workforce.
Training for operating, supervisory, and management personnel was a critical part of the project, which increased the refinery's alumina production capacity by 150,000 metric-tons-per-year to 1.425 million.
Jamalco partnered with the local national training agency, HEART Trust, to train craft workers for the expansion project at Jamalco's former mining offices and workshops at Breadnut Valley, which were converted into the Breadnut Valley Engineering Training Institute. Of the 400 trainees enrolled in the program, 225 received employment on the Early Works Programme.
More than 70% of the craft and unskilled workers on the project came from Clarendon communities, delivering economic benefit to these communities in wages and salaries. Seventeen of the 21 contractors used on the project were locally sourced Jamaican contractors.
The US$120-million-plus project had a wholly Jamaican craft workforce of more than 850 at peak construction, with most drawn from communities nearest to the refinery.
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