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Businesses facing labour shortage

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23 Jun 16 - The idea might seem contradictory and even unbelievable to many, but while workers are being laid off in the current recession, the country is actually woefully short of people to fill vacancies in a whole range of companies and sectors. A team of consultants from the University of the West Indies, headed by economics lecturer, Dr Roger Hosein, has calculated that Trinidad and Tobago will need at least 330,000 additional workers if it is to expand the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by fifty percent by the year 2030.