Mitur coordinates personnel training for the new tourist port of Cabo Rojo

The Ministry of Tourism (Mitur) began inter-institutional coordination with other institutions, in order to work together in the search for the personnel that will require the jobs in the construction and operation of the new Port of Cabo Rojo, with the focus of prioritizing in social inclusion that benefits the inhabitants of the Enriquillo and Pedernales region.

The meeting, coordinated by Carlos Peguero, deputy minister of International Cooperation and executive director of the Pedernales Project, seeks to form a synergy between the aforementioned institutions, as well as the creation by the Ministry of Labor of the Labor Coordination Office that will assume control of the personnel that will require the different phases of construction and operation of said tourist terminal, together with ITM Group.

Peguero justified the start of the work groups to the fact that what will start first in the Pedernales Tourism Plan will be the issue of cruise ships before hotel projects”.

He considered that it is a challenge for the Government and the Tourism Development Commission of Pedernales to have all the training and recruitment processes for human resources ready before the start of operation of the Port in November 2023, as has been the wish of President Luis Abinader. .

He reaffirmed that “the entire human resource recruitment plan that the Ministry of Labor and ITM Group will have will be carried out with a total focus on social inclusion in favor of the residents of the Enriquillo region.

“The important thing is that the inhabitants of the region will be the ones who primarily occupy all the jobs that the port of Pedernales will generate,” he said in relation to the role that the aforementioned institutions will have in the future together with ITM Group.

He added that “the 4,700 rooms that will generate some 10,000 direct jobs must leave the Enriquillo region,” and that if these jobs are not found, they will be sought in other places outside the region.

The first meeting, held at the Mitur headquarters, was attended by ITM Goup, Karen López, International Relations Manager, José Antonio Rivero, Procedures Manager, and Orfila Salazar, Mitur Cruises Director.

Julián Mateo Jesús, Deputy Minister for Inspections; Juan Ramón Ventura, Director of Inspection and Claudia Pérez, in charge of Labor Migration, and for Infotep, Luis Beltré, South Regional Director.

Among the issues discussed are reaching a consensus on the date for holding a job fair, in charge of the Ministry of Labor, the coordination of a recruitment campaign for the personnel required for the construction phase of the port works to request for ITM and the implementation of special training programs by Infotep in areas demanded by the area.

He also appeared at the meeting on the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the institutions present together with the Presidential Commission for Tourism Development of Pedernales.

It is recalled that the construction of the Cabo Rojo Port, which will last until December 2023, and will have an investment of 98 million dollars generating more than five thousand direct and indirect jobs, began at the end of last May.