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Tens of thou­sands of peo­ple have ap­plied to the Gov­ern­ment’s new­ly launched on­line em­ploy­ment plat­form, in what Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said is a clear sign that cit­i­zens are ready to work.

A state­ment from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter said more than 30,000 ap­pli­ca­tions were sub­mit­ted with­in 24 hours of the web­site’s launch on Sun­day at em­ploytt.gov.tt/job­sre­cruit­ment­drive.

“The re­sponse from cit­i­zens across our na­tion has been ex­tra­or­di­nary,” the state­ment quot­ed Per­sad-Bisses­sar as say­ing. “In just one day, over 30,000 peo­ple have stepped for­ward through the Na­tion­al Re­cruit­ment Dri­ve; a clear sign that our peo­ple are ready to work, to grow, and to build a bet­ter Trinidad and To­ba­go.