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Last week, Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk ex­am­ined the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cruit­ment dri­ve through Em­ployTT.

Months lat­er, many who ap­plied to the Gov­ern­ment for jobs have not been called to work.

At the time of its launch, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced the ini­tia­tive would pro­vide more than 20,000 job op­por­tu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go. It came at a time when thou­sands of work­ers were laid off from make-work pro­grammes such as the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme and the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme.