An additional 6500 persons with varying degrees of disabilities have been added to the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) database, through a series of islandwide registration fairs, currently underway. The initiative, which began on July 22, forms part of the Council’s thrust to enhance its outreach programme to disabled persons across the society. Executive Director of the JCPD,...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, is urging Jamaicans to be more supportive of children with special needs. “They need us more than ever to assist in their overall development. We also need to work much harder as a nation to create a society that is caring and inclusive for the disabled community, in keeping with the...

Entrepreneurial expert, Professor Rosalea Hamilton, says Jamaica offers many prospects for business development, which must be exploited for the country’s progress. According to Professor Hamilton, small businesses have the power to “take our country to another level to enable us to reinsert ourselves in a global market economy that is transforming and changing rapidly as we speak. ” “There is...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), has embarked on several initiatives, aimed at sensitizing law enforcers about the ongoing issue of child labour in Jamaica. Project Officer of ILO TACKLE in Jamaica, Nasolo Thompson,said many persons, including law enforcers, are not fully aware of the issue of child labour in Jamaica,...

Ground is scheduled to be broken on July 11, for the construction of anew city/business hotel in Kingston. This was disclosed by Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, Hon. Dr. Wykeham McNeill, during his contribution to the 2013/14 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 2. The Minister informed that the Courtyard Marriott, which is being developed by a...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has collaborated with the Golden Age Home (GAH) in Vineyard Town, Kingston, to procure a generator  for the home. General Manager of the Home, Laurette Adams-Thomas, told JIS News that the generator has helped to alleviate some challenges that the institution encounters once there  is a power outage. “The residents would be in...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, says he will continue to work assiduously to ensure the passage of relevant legislation to enable the ratification and implementation of the Domestic Workers Convention at the earliest possible date. The treaty in question is Article 189 of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Convention, which requires Governments to take steps to...

Over 80 per cent of Jamaica's neediest are receiving assistance under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) initiative. This was disclosed by Consultant to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Professor Godfrey Gibbison, during a forum focused on the Beneficiary Identification Systems (BIS) and Findings of the 2012 Targeting Assessment of the PATH at the Knutsford...