Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to Canada Phillip Buxo is working assiduously to secure opportunities for nationals to fill 300 positions in Canada's oil industry. That was revealed by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communications Surujrattan Rambachan yesterday after a media conference at the ministry's office, Tower C, International Waterfront Complex, Port-of-Spain. Rambachan said the province of Alberta in Canada needed plenty of workers in its oil industry. He said Buxo had been seeking these opportunities for nationals of T&T.
He said discussions were being held with the Ministry of Labour as they would be responsible for recruitment. "In a similar way where we send over 1,000 farm workers to Canada every year, we enjoy excellent relationships with Canada," said Rambachan. Yesterday's media conference was held to welcome the new Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Costa Rican Ambassador Ricardo Thompson Thompson, as well as usher out his predecessor Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See, Thomas Gullickson.
Gullickson, whose first diplomatic posting was to T&T and the Caribbean, spent six years in the country.
During the media conference Thompson, though full of praise for T&T's culture, said there was a need to look at the service industry in T&T. "A lot of the world needs to know about Trini culture but people can't come here and when they go around they get bad service," said Thompson.