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EVOLUTION The company has become a lot more structured in the last 16 years . The last 6-7 years have been challenging with the industry contracting dramatically , the diversity of projects has increased during that time .
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As the recession has hit Grenada hard the pot of projects is less for everyone to go around . The flip side to this is when a project like Sandals comes in the challenges are to meet their timeline , but in order to meet their timeline and to complete the project we had to import skilled labour from St . Lucia , Antigua , and St . Vincent because our labour force is quite finite . It doesn ’ t take much to consume all of the local resources .
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The period following Hurricane Ivan was the most challenging time of all . Houses were destroyed and businesses badly crippled , so we had an even larger amount of imported labour . Hundreds of Guyanese , Vincentians , Bajans , St . Lucians , even some Polish workers were imported so we could fulfil the demand from a nation destroyed .
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When we are fully occupied we employ around 250 full time workers , while the Sandals project required 400 workers employed by us directly , so our contribution to NIS and the Government Treasury is considerable .
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We estimate that on average when things are going well , our payroll is around 2.4 million dollars a year , but the first 6 months of 2015 have been very slow we have had to lay off those workers that we can ’ t find anything for , but most of them come back as soon as we have the work for them . This has been a pattern for the last 3 years .
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KEEPING CD RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY We were the first company to introduce CAD ( Computer Aided Design ) into Grenada and recently we have expanded on this ; 3-4 years ago we started using the integrative design processes known as the RIVITS programme by Autodesk the makers of AUTOCAD .
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