Registered jobless

There were 7,699 persons registering for work with the Employment and Training Corporation (ETC) at the end of January, the National Statistics Office said yesterday. The figure represents a drop of 481 persons when compared to January 2005. However,...

There were 7,699 persons registering for work with the Employment and Training Corporation (ETC) at the end of January, the National Statistics Office said yesterday.

The figure represents a drop of 481 persons when compared to January 2005. However, the number of registered unemployed last month rose by 320 over the preceding month.

In September 2005, the unemployment rate stood at 4.9 per cent of the labour supply.

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