(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ruth Wijdenbosch says that the drop in unemployment as recently reported by the General Bureau for Statistics (ABS) is a positive development, but she believes that the announcement by President Desi Bouterse that 5000 new jobs will be created every year is a “pipe dream”, as it has no foundation and the President did not mention how he reached that figure and did not indicate in which sector. The figures that show how high unemployment is are important in this regard. A drop is always positive, but every figure higher than 9% is unacceptable to the Deputy Speaker.
