About eight per cent were studio apartments, a drop from close to 20 per cent in the previous year. During her stay she met with the premier at the Cabinet Office to talk about human resources issues and the importance of preparing for globalization in terms of labour standards. The pressure to put some labour standards in place will have to happen here. What's relevant in a business is what's going to happen in half an hour, not what could happen in five years time. We have to look at the radar screen and see these things coming.
Nobody wants to be hit at the last minute when it's too late.
But this year, to mark 30 years, they decided give its staff the whole day off. Well, not quite a day off, but out of the office at least. The staff spent the morning helping to clean up the FRN facility on Mount Hill in Pembroke, where they did some painting and gardening. They weeded the garden, which was totally overgrown, and put in plants which were donated by another local business. They also painted over some graffiti on the side of the building.