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Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Kennedy Swarats­ingh is rub­bish­ing claims made by for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert that the un­em­ploy­ment rate has near­ly dou­bled.

At a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) meet­ing on Thurs­day in Mal­abar, Im­bert sound­ed alarm bells over what he de­scribed as a sharp rise in un­em­ploy­ment un­der the new Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ad­min­is­tra­tion, just three months af­ter the PNM was vot­ed out of of­fice.

Im­bert claimed that un­der the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion, of which he was a min­is­ter, the na­tion­al un­em­ploy­ment rate stood at four per cent.