TrustedHire was started by someone from the island who left decades ago, never forgot where they came from, and decided it was time to do something about it.
I left home decades ago. I built a life in the diaspora, stayed connected to the island through family, through visits, through the stories people share. And over the years, one kind of story kept coming up — again and again, from different people, in different villages.
Someone hired a worker to look after their land, their water, their trees and their animals. The money was taken. The work was never done — and all the animals disappeared. Someone else's relative struggled for months to find help to climb her coconut tree and pick her coconuts, despite many promises from many people. In each case, the person who suffered had no way to warn anyone else — and no way to find someone better next time.
I experienced bad service myself. And I have heard enough of these stories to know this is not just bad luck. It is a gap — a real and serious gap — in how trust is built and how good work is recognised on our island.
TrustedHire is my attempt to do something about that. Not to complain. Not to punish. But to give good workers the recognition they deserve — and give people looking for help a fair, honest way to find them.
I am coming home soon — in just a few weeks. This is my contribution. I hope it serves the community for many years to come.
"Good work deserves to be seen. Honest workers deserve to be found. And every person looking for help deserves the truth."
A community registry — a permanent, verified record of tradespeople and the work they have done. When a customer says a worker did a good job, that gets written down, checked by a real person, and published for anyone on the island to see.
It is a way for good workers to be found. And a way for people looking for help to make an informed choice, with confidence.
This is not a complaints board. It is not a place to attack people or settle scores. It is not run by the government, and it is not funded from outside.
Every entry is checked before it goes public. The goal is recognition and fairness — not punishment or exposure.
TrustedHire was designed by someone from this island, for the people of this island. The verifiers who check the work are local. The workers in the registry are local. The community keeps this running — not a government department, not a foreign company.
Word of mouth has always been the way here. TrustedHire makes it permanent, fair, and visible to everyone — not just those who know the right people.
There is no grant behind this. No handout. No dependency. The small annual registration fee that tradespeople pay is what keeps the registry running and the verifiers paid.
That is something to be proud of. A community that builds its own systems and maintains them. That is what this is.
Nothing appears publicly without being checked. Workers are not named on complaints without due process. Customers' details are always kept private.
Trust levels are earned through verified evidence — not ratings, not rumour. The system is structured so that feelings cannot override facts.
The purpose of TrustedHire is to lift good workers up — not to drag others down. We believe most people, given the right system, will do the right thing.
This belongs to the island. The people who verify the work live here. The workers in the registry live here. The community decides what good looks like.