Presidential candidate of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Brigadier (ret) David Granger has challenged Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir’s claim that Guyana’s unemployment rate had fallen from 11.7 to 10.7 per cent.
Granger is contending that there are no reliable unemployment statistics and Guyana’s Household Income and Expenditure Survey which was undertaken more than a decade ago had disclosed that “about half of the population” was not gainfully employed, APNU said in a press release.
APNU asserted that many who would