Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of fail­ing to de­liv­er on its job promis­es and called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ac­count to thou­sands of ap­pli­cants.

In a state­ment, Beck­les said more than 70,000 peo­ple were dis­missed with­in ten months while 1,801 were hired un­der the Na­tion­al Re­cruit­ment Dri­ve. She said the Gov­ern­ment had promised 20,000 jobs in Oc­to­ber 2025 and 50,000 jobs dur­ing the elec­tion cam­paign.

Beck­les said over 110,000 peo­ple ap­plied for the pro­gramme and few­er than two per cent were hired. She de­scribed the ini­tia­tive as an at­tempt to mis­lead ap­pli­cants and de­flect at­ten­tion.