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Unemployment rate drops during May

The Island's unemployment rate has fallen slightly.

Last month 1,283 people were without a job, 64 fewer than in April.

April saw the highest number of people registered as unemployed in the last 20 years.

It leaves the unemployment rate at three per cent, down 0.1 per cent from April.

Of those unemployed - 59 per cent were men, and 41 per cent women.

According to the latest government statistics, the highest numbers of vacancies are in the E-gaming and medical services.

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