SL focusing on foreign empl. market

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The government is to hold talks with several powerful countries including the United States in order to send local labour as there was a large number of vacancies in those countries, the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) said.

SLBFE chairman Amal Senalankadikara said Sri Lankan government officials would meet representatives from the US, Canada, Germany, Australia and Japan in this regard. There are over 150,000 vacancies for nurses in Canada and another 350,000 in the United States, the Bureau said.

Sri Lankan now sends local workers to some twenty countries, mainly to the Middle Eastern countries.

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sad Sunday, 29 April 2012 08:54 AM

of course we have such a prof. nurses who have got more than 7.0 in IELTS with science degrees

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Sam Sunday, 29 April 2012 09:02 AM

And Please stop sending House Maids to middle east

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Noor Sunday, 29 April 2012 09:28 AM

Good do it fastly and quickly, stop maids export. this is an action come tooooooo late

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Labby Sunday, 29 April 2012 09:51 AM

Are we having a surplus of nurses in the country?

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Ami Sunday, 29 April 2012 09:40 AM

Good only if we can qualify in exams held in those countries and achieve 7 in IELTS !

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j Sunday, 29 April 2012 10:29 AM

most of ppl find job at overseas by themself government has not done anything so far

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Kolikuttu Sunday, 29 April 2012 10:49 AM

We need doctors, nurses, teachers. Can we export our politicians?

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herath Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:02 PM

crap, look at the unemployment rate in USA, these people are making me laugh, hehehe

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Mohamed Iqbal Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:14 PM

Country becomes famine day by day as the cost of living being increased. So government take this opportunites to send the people for over seas without giving opportuniteis in the country as this will benefit in following three(03) ways.
1- Bring more forign currency exchanges to make profit to sri Lanka to make joy of our beloved ministers, and to increase their facilities and percks
2- Get rid of the main burden from unemployed educated students appeal, strikes and tense situation etc.
3- When many Sri lankan work in overseas, any body can bear the on going cost of living whenever it is increasing in an unbelivable way in the country time to time. All these acts for government selfish things not and really to serve for public

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citizen Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:21 PM

Lol we have to get permission from Weerawansa for the recruitment first otherwise there will be a big issue please SLBFE take care you will be sued otherwise

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Sammy Sunday, 29 April 2012 02:05 PM

Unemployment has increase in this countries, so what will these guys do?

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Sanjay Monday, 30 April 2012 07:15 AM

Good initiative but how many qualified nurses do we have??? and with the unemployment rate at 9.% in the U.S.A thats 27 million people unemployed hahahah that's 9 million more than our population. So am guessing this is solely for the nursing sector which will leave us with untrained/unqualified nurses resulting in 6 tries per injection, wrong medicine served to the correct patient.

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