Trinidad PM: Crime Fight Will Create Jobs

By: - November 9th, 2011

Above: Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Photo: TGISL)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Trinidad’s government will create 20,000 new jobs at a cost of $47.2 million as part of an anti-crime strategy called “Reclaiming Our Youths, Embracing Our Future,” Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced today.

The Prime Minister said the job creation exercise would engage mostly youths from vulnerable communities, creating jobs through a series of existing social programmes.

She also said the government was prepared to debate several pieces of legislation involved in the country’s crime fight, including the possibility of abolishing preliminary inquiries.

Earlier this week, Persad-Bissessar announced that the government had lifted the curfew imposed after the country’s State of Emergency was declared on Aug. 21.

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