Economy - Jobs : Dominican Entrepreneur wants to create more textile jobs in Haiti

Did you know? The Industrial Development Company (CODEVI) located in the Ouanaminthe free zone in Northern Haiti currently employs more than 11,000 Haitians in the textile sector. That's 20 percent of the workforce in this sector. They want to create even more jobs.

Fernando Capellàn, Dominican entrepreneur and president of "Groupe M" who manages the CODEVI free zone plans to more than doubles these jobs

"by 2020, we plan to offer 25,000 jobs," provided that there is a decline in the pace of strikes, he said. (sispann fè manifestation ak grèv)

There is no better place for light manufacturing than Haiti right now, the Dominican businessmen said, because of its proximity to the United States and also the HELP legislation. Read more from haitilibre.com

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Yanick says...

Hello,
The Dominican Republic should think about paying Haiti
The retribution money they owe Haiti.

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