Unemployment stress takes toll on retrenched workers

For more than 800 work­ers re­trenched be­tween Sep­tem­ber and Oc­to­ber, the loss of a job has brought far more than fi­nan­cial un­cer­tain­ty. For some, it has trig­gered de­pres­sion, anx­i­ety at­tacks and se­ri­ous health com­pli­ca­tions, while oth­ers are seek­ing coun­selling to cope with the emo­tion­al toll of sud­den­ly los­ing their liveli­hoods.

Work­ers from Pro­man Trinidad, Nu­trien, Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort, Massy Cat and the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA), who were thrown on­to the bread­line in re­cent weeks, are strug­gling to find new jobs to sur­vive while bat­tling health com­pli­ca­tions, fi­nan­cial woes and an un­cer­tain fu­ture.

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Be­tween Sep­tem­ber and Oc­to­ber 20, 2026, Guardian Me­dia’s cal­cu­la­tions showed that more than 800 work­ers were laid off.