Volunteers from various organisations across Portland came together to beautify the coastal community of Bryan’s Bay for Labour Day on Friday (May 23).  The project was organised by the Portland Municipal Corporation and embodied the environmental theme for Labour Day 2025 – ‘Protect the Environment: Our Land, Our Duty, Our Future’.  The volunteers, including Miss Portland Festival Queen 2025 contestants,...

St. Martin de Porres Primary and Infant School in Gordon Town, St. Andrew, received a double treat on Labour Day (May 23).   The institution’s playground got a colourful makeover while the Infant Department was outfitted with an interactive panel, a charging cart and 20 tablet computers with cases and protective screens.   The initiative was coordinated by e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited...

The enduring legacy of National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Samuel Sharpe, was honoured at the annual Labour Day floral tribute held at Sam Sharpe Square, St. James, on Friday, May 23, 2025.  The event, hosted by the St. James Municipal Corporation in collaboration with the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), brought together government leaders, civic representatives, and members of the...

The Charles Gordon Market and the surrounding market district in Montego Bay, St. James, experienced major clean-up and infrastructural upgrades as part of the Labour Day 2025 activities. The Market was designated the official parish project for Labour Day, at a cost of approximately $5 million. Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon, said the initiative underscores the Corporation’s commitment...

The Government has spent $8 million to improve the Mason River Environmental and Research Park in Clarendon. Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, today (May 23) led a group of government officials, stakeholders and scores of other volunteers to undertake improvement works at the facility, which was selected as this year’s Labour Day National Project. In 2022, the...

Ardenne High School Drummers in performance during the wreath-laying ceremony at the shrine of National Hero, the Right Excellent Samuel Sharpe at National Heroes Park in Kingston on Friday (May 23). The Labour Day activity commemorates the day Sharpe was executed on May 23, 1832 for his leadership in the 1831 Christmas Rebellion.

Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Andrew Swaby (foreground), and Enforcement Officer at the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), Yanique Robinson, paint a building at the Rae Town Fishing Village in Kingston on Friday (May 23), as part of Labour Day 2025 activities. In addition to works in Rae Town, volunteers carried out improvements at the Happy Grove Community Centre...