Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), interacting with community members during his visit to the Olympic Gardens Health Centre in Kingston to participate in Labour Day (May 23) activities.

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), signs the guest book following a tour of the Jamaica Music Museum by Director/Curator, Jamaica Music Museum, Herbie Miller (right), today (May 23) in downtown Kingston.

Scores of volunteers turned out at the Jamaica Society for the Blind (JSB) on Labour Day (May 23) to beautify and improve accessibility to the facility, located at 111 ½ Old Hope Road in St. Andrew.  The scope of works included redesigning an existing ramp to enhance accessibility to the entity’s vision centre by persons with disabilities; rehabilitation of several...

The St. James Municipal Corporation will not be approving plans for public buildings that do not include access for members of the disabled community, says Montego Bay Mayor, Councillor Richard Verron.  The move is in keeping with the Disabilities Act, 2014, which provides that public buildings should be outfitted with the requisite amenities to enable easy access by disabled persons. ...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government has been working to improve access for the most vulnerable in society including the poor, elderly and the disabled.  He cited increases in the age relief exemption for pensioners, which came into effect on April 1, and establishment of the Social Pension Programme for elderly persons who are not National...

Mayor of Montego Bay and Chairman of the St. James Municipal Corporation, Councillor Richard Vernon (right), and Commanding Officer for the second battalion, Jamaica Regiment, Jamaica Defence Force, Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Lysight, paint disabled parking spaces at a car park at the intersection of Creek Street and St. Clavers Avenue in Montego Bay. The work was part of the Labour...

The 196 students of Stimulation Plus Child Development Centre on Ostend Close in Kingston will return to a spruced-up school environment next Monday.   HEART/NSTA Trust, in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security and National Housing Trust (NHT) carried out a slew of revamping activities on Labour Day (May 23).   Volunteers painted classrooms and the perimeter wall of...