(Trinidad Guardian) Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus said yesterday she suspected that over 5,000 people have lost their jobs in the last seven months as T&T continues to go through economic challenges.
“I will give you what my suspicions are in terms of the unemployed from September to now. I suspect they may be in the vicinity of 5,000 or a little beyond that,†Baptiste-Primus told reporters at yesterday’s post-Cabinet media briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister, St Clair.
Although the Central Statistical Office should be the agency to provide data of the unemployment rate, Baptiste-Primus gave an approximation of those terminated and assured that a new mechanism was being put in place to capture precise figures on the number of people who were retrenched recently.
“I will give you what my suspicions are in terms of the unemployed from September to now. I suspect they may be in the vicinity of 5,000 or a little beyond that,†Baptiste-Primus told reporters at yesterday’s post-Cabinet media briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister, St Clair.
Although the Central Statistical Office should be the agency to provide data of the unemployment rate, Baptiste-Primus gave an approximation of those terminated and assured that a new mechanism was being put in place to capture precise figures on the number of people who were retrenched recently.