As the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic con­tin­ues to rage across the world with no sign of slow­ing down, a lo­cal be­hav­iour­al change con­sul­tant says the State can­not con­tin­ue to pro­vide hand-outs to cit­i­zens with­out any pro­duc­tiv­i­ty in ex­change.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar be­lieves the coun­try’s un­em­ploy­ment fig­ures have jumped from 60,000 last year to over 100,000 dur­ing the sec­ond wave of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The warn­ing came from Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar two weeks ahead of the coun­try’s Oc­to­ber 5 fis­cal pack­age which will be de­liv­ered by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert.

Rhon­dor Dowlat-Ros­tant

A man want­ed by the po­lice was shot and killed dur­ing a po­lice-in­volved killing in La Hor­quet­ta yes­ter­day.
Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 2.10 pm a team of po­lice of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion of a want­ed man by the name of Don Ja­cobs was seen hid­ing out in a house at Phase 6 La Hor­quet­ta.
On ar­rival, the of­fi­cers called out to the oc­cu­pants and spot­ted the sus­pect run­ning out of the house to the back of the house and in­to a yard en­ter­ing in­to a wash­room.
The re­port said of­fi­cers gave chase and Ja­cobs drew a firearm and point­ed it in the di­rec­tion of the of­fi­cers fired in the di­rec­tion of the sus­pect hit­ting him.
Ja­cobs was tak­en to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal where he was treat­ed.
He, how­ev­er, suc­cumbed to his in­juries at bout 2.40 pm.