OK I sent it, Just remember I am not available til April.

Anyway what is inflation/ Salaries like in Belize?

Chapin, please pm me the details of the job, salary, requirements, and if you are intending to assist your employee get a work permit, etc... if she is not interested I have a 4 yr degree in Business + Financial Management.

NOMAD, there is a nursing shortage in Belize because the US has been headhunting all of our nurses. Contact the Ministry of Health and Public Service: http://www.belize.gov.bz/cabinet/j_coye/welcome.shtml

The nursing schools in the States are back-logged 2 years and the nursing shortage is worldwide, not just in the States.......the job never paid a whole lot until a few years ago. I can understand Belizeans or any other citizen from abroad wanting to come to the States and make the kind of money the hospitals are offering. As far as "head-hunting"...I think not.

Recruiters from the US regularly come to Belize (and other countries, Canada has experienced the same) and offer high paying nursing jobs along with assistance in all immigration requirements. A headhunter is a headhunter is a headhunter no matter what you call them.

"High Paying" seems to be the key to keeping nurses in Belize....that is unless the headhunters kidnap those nurses.

Give me a break, you really think that this country can afford to pay anywhere near what a US hospital would.

Personally I think it's unconscionable to raid a country of nurses and severely impact an already borderline health care system. Poor planning on the US's part should not constitute an emergency for Belizeans.

Typical New World mentality.

Sure. Typical new world mentality to offer better opportunities and MUCH better wages to people from third world countries. How awful.

/sarcasm

I think it is unconscionable to under pay skilled professionals...forcing them to seek work outside the country to provide a good life to their family...I have assisted several Belizeans (who intend to return to Belize in a few years) in finding work in the US.....they are happy......the word "raiding" is the typical norteamericano bashing that seems to negate the indviduals right to "choose" their own destiny. A Registered Nurse in the States can make $40-60 US.............are they traitors? I think not. The most ludicrous issue is "offering better opportunities and much better wages to people from 3rd world countries". I guess the alternative is preferred for people from 3rd world nations.......keeping them in their place....sounds like the Bush administration.

I've been vacationing/pursuing work in Belize at least once a year for the past 6. I don't expect to make the money I make in the US, but would like to at least extend my vacations and continue twice yearly visits. I hope to eventually be accepted by the Ministry of Health and be able to work some when I'm in Belize. I'm a registered nurse and involved in a program shipping medical supplies/drugs from my hospital to the clinic on San Pedro. My daughter, a school teacher, went to SP with me early this year, she started a job with the school system there on SP in August. I think I will have to change careers !! I know that I would be lucky to make the salary that she makes on SP, a fraction of what I'm paid here in the US. I am in close contact with medical personnel on SP, and some are still pursuing their physician licensing - after several years. If you find out something different for RN's, drop me a line. In the meantime, my daughter is living my dream...