Government Senator Don Wehby on Friday assured the nation that he would undertake personal oversight of the long-promised unemployment insurance scheme, to ensure that it becomes a reality. His comments come more than a year and half after Finance Minister Nigel Clarke announced that the Planning Institute of Jamaica would be tasked with undertaking the feasibility of such an arrangement coming into being a reality for Jamaican workers.

Wehby noted that Jamaica has not been spared the ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of job losses, and pointed out that the pre-pandemic unemployment rate, which stood at 7.2 per cent, is now trending down and stood at 7.1 per cent as at November 2021.

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