It was doing fantastic work and we had encouraged it to expand its work by linking up with the Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College.
The unit is currently being "spun off" from the Cabinet Office into a new mutual company so that it can expand its work – both in the public and private sector – and provide revenue to central Government.
It recently announced that it wished to expand its work to take on anti-piracy missions off the coast of Somalia and was ready to send its ship, the McCarthur, to the area to escort potential targets passing through the Gulf of Aden.
The company, based in Pittsford, N.Y., said it expected to expand its work force to more than 2,500 employees over the next 12 to 18 months.
FRIEDMAN, BILLINGS, RAMSEY GROUP, Arlington, Va., an investment banking firm, said it would open an office in New York, as it looks to expand its work force.
The company, which now has about 500 employees in three buildings in New York City, said it expected to expand its work force in the city to 700 within the next couple of years, particularly in the engineering area.
She added: "The ICC should expand its work outside Africa, but it does not mean that its eight current investigations in African countries are without basis.
At the same time, it has striven to expand its work with a variety of partners in global health, he said.
It also hopes to expand its work mapping worm prevalence around the world and examining the longer-term effects of deworming programs by evaluating standardized test scores of students in areas that have been dewormed.
"The ICC should expand its work outside Africa, but it does not mean that its eight current investigations in African countries are without basis," Amnesty's deputy director of law and policy, Tawanda Hondora, said.
It does hope to expand its work to the U.S. market someday, said Moy.
