Gold Fields shedding 600 jobs

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• Nana Esi, ottawa 12 years ago

  The suppliers have condoned and conived with the workers and milking the mines.

  The suppliers have condoned and conived with the workers and milking the mines.

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• FM 12 years ago

  Well Nana,
  
  It comes to the same question as to who really controls our resources and our economy. You can bet your bottom dollar that the people who are the least paid are the guys who will be on their way out. The well-pa ...
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  Well Nana,
  
  It comes to the same question as to who really controls our resources and our economy. You can bet your bottom dollar that the people who are the least paid are the guys who will be on their way out. The well-paid top executives from Europe and North America working in Ghana will keep their nice lucrative jobs and perks that are about 40-50 times that of these local workers. They can keep these local people in many other new innovative roles, as this is only temporary. It is not a long term slump in prices of gold.

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• MENSAH 12 years ago

  Why don't GOLD FIELDS train GHANAIANS IN INNOVATIVE SKILLS IN JEWELLERY DESIGNING & MANUFACTURING,USING CAM/CAD,CNC MACHINERY?
  But deems it fit to send the metal outside Ghana to process it?
  When the price of gold shoots u ...
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  Why don't GOLD FIELDS train GHANAIANS IN INNOVATIVE SKILLS IN JEWELLERY DESIGNING & MANUFACTURING,USING CAM/CAD,CNC MACHINERY?
  But deems it fit to send the metal outside Ghana to process it?
  When the price of gold shoots up,do they complain of too much profit?
  Why don't they train Ghanaians,that have one of the cheapest labour force
  in the world,to process the metal over here in Ghana?
  They always train people in masonry,plumbing,electrician,welding,painting etc,whilst those artisans already abounds in Ghana.
  GHANA'S LABOUR FORCE DOES THE MONKEY JOB,BUT THE REAL NEEDED JOB ON THE GOLD,IS DONE OUTSIDE GHANA.
  I believe,God is finding a way to preserve our gold for us,therefore,in disguised,the lower world market price ,is in the end,to our favour.
  WHO KNOWS?
  If we do not take care very well to preserve our natural resources,by the time,our children might be proficient enough to have processed it to our advantage,all might be gone already.
  We must stop our uncaring,unpatriotic,selfish,covetous attitudes,and think about the future of our dear children,so something/legacy worthwhile,would be left for them to entail.
  I WISHED MAHAMA & HIS "GUINEA FOWL POLITICIANS" MIGHT READ THIS PIECE.

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• ebenezer 12 years ago

  the government must came in

  the government must came in

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• Dr Robert Glah 12 years ago

  Diversification of the mining industry
  is needed.
  Putting all our eggs into one risky basket of rising and falling price is our bane.

  Diversification of the mining industry
  is needed.
  Putting all our eggs into one risky basket of rising and falling price is our bane.

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• Abdul bassit 12 years ago

  Now the problem with this exercise is that,first they are not following the right criteria for laying the workers off because those who have say in the mining companies are rather saving those they knew.The logic was first la ...
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  Now the problem with this exercise is that,first they are not following the right criteria for laying the workers off because those who have say in the mining companies are rather saving those they knew.The logic was first last come last off,which now is vice versa.

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