CONGRATS TO KENSWIFE!!!!!!!
MORE GOOD NEWS KG, ME MYSELF JUST WAITING TO HEAR BACK SINCE HUBBY DROPPED OFF THE MED AND POLICE REDO, Found out anyone who did their police records before june of last this year cannot recall the immediate date will have to re-do their police records no matter what.
Fraud Squad investigators are currently probing the operations of Medley Development Corporation, a self-styled employment agency, which allegedly fleeced victims of millions of dollars.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security alerted the Fraud Squad after the matter was brought to its attention by job applicants who had grown anxious about their prospects.
Some of these victims had paid as much as $40,000 for a range of fees, some in U.S. dollars, before they became suspicious and started asking questions.
Ministry officials and the police recently visited the company and seized its books.
Wooed by ad
The sequence of events started with the placement of a newspaper advertisement by a company bearing the name Medley Development Corporation, with a local address at 89 East Street. This address, ironically, is situated just a few chains from the Labour Ministry's employment recruitment centre at 110-114 East Street.
Several persons from southern St. Elizabeth responded to the advertisement and were promised jobs in a wide range of occupations in various states in the U.S. They subsequently met with the 'recruiters' in Black River and immediately began a series of payments.
Payment for airfares
These payments were for application fees, processing fees, work permits, police records, U.S. visa applications, and identification cards.
It was only when the job applicants were asked to pay the company up to $39,000 for their air fares, even before they had received the requisite visas, that some of them began second-guessing their earlier decisions.
"In the first it sounded very good, but in the end it didn't sound so good at all, because they wanted us to pay the air fare before we got the visa, so I got suspicious," explained Dennis Henry.
Had they exercised due vigilance earlier, the job seekers might have uncovered several points of concern.
One U.S. address given by the company turned out to be the office of the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, D.C.; so was the telephone number.
Two names given in association with that address were unknown to embassy staff, according to Derrick Scott, information attachat the embassy.
"We have no record of either of these gentlemen being employed at the embassy and the names are not known at all. The embassy will be carrying out its own investigations into the matter," Mr. Scott promised.
"Our officers investigated the company and were convinced that the employment agency had not complied with the requirements of the law," Alvin McIntosh, Permanent Secretary in the Labour Ministry, told The Gleaner. These conditions fall under the Employment Agencies and Regulation Act.
Given the pattern of activities and addresses used by the suspect company, the Permanent Secretary believes a deliberate strategy was employed to mislead the public into believing that it was aligned with the Government.
"This might serve to undermine the credibility of the Government's own programmes and we have to do everything to preserve the integrity of these programmes," he said.
When The Gleaner visited the East Street address of the company, an employee of another firm at the premises confirmed that Medley Development Corporation had been there for a brief period but had recently closed down.
Just thought I'd share, you all probably aware of this SCAM, if its not hard enough for us to get our other halfs up here, can you Imagine!!!
Dis juss piss me the $%%^^&^ off! Truss me
Just venting cause when my hubby had to do his police redo he had to be there at 4am and him no get thru until 2pm cause dem let in 300 persons a time everything a go change up in dis ya IMM matter and me pissed off bout it right now...CHO!!!!