CSO data shows 12,000 job losses from April to September 2025
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March 1, 2026
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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.
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