Will the Need for Employees Begin Strategies of Hope in Colon?
Posted by Mike | Under Colon Hotels, Colon PanamaSoon a new motorway will link Colón with Panama City. A Spanish-backed consortium wants to build a forty billion dollar energy hub. Other investors plan hotels and shopping centers in Colon. Those projects are in addition to the over five billion dollars, that will be spent to widen the Panama Canal, through 2014. That’s a lot of business enterprises and many potential employment positions.
The Panama International Merchandise Mart (PIMM) is currently under development near Panama’s Colon Free Zone and is Latin America’s first wholesale merchandise mart. Now you can book a showroom, office, a condo or a hotel room. PIMM will be the largest commercial structure in Latin America with 21,572,782 square feet (2 million square meters) of construction, designed in the shape of a butterfly.
Total investment in PIMM will top 1 billion USD over a 3-year period. There are plans to create more that 31,195 jobs by the end of 2009, within the Mart. You’d think that with all those jobs; that the people who need jobs the most would get them. But it isn’t true. They don’t have transportation to work, they don’t have the clothes to work in, and they don’t have second language skills or good work habits to offer to a potential employer. Who will help?
Today Colón Free Trade Zone, the ‘Zona Libra’ is the largest free trade zone in all of the Americas, with 30,000 workers and 2,500 businesses. It is a place where billions of dollars in goods are unloaded, stored and either sold or reshipped free of tariffs, within a 1.8 sq. mi. (468 hectare) compound. But outside of the compound there are people in despair.
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