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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (second right), makes remarks before placing a wreath at the Aggie Bernard Monument, Kingston Craft Market, downtown Kingston, on May 19, in recognition of National Workers’ Week/Labour Day. Workers’ Week is being observed under the theme ‘Together we rise, together we build and together we progress’, to pay tribute to Jamaican workers who participated in the 1938 Labour Riots, which led to improved working conditions for the workers of today. Waiting to place their wreaths (from left) are State Minister in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne; Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams (right); and Deputy Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Winston Ennis.
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (second right), makes remarks before placing a wreath at the Aggie Bernard Monument, Kingston Craft Market, downtown Kingston, on May 19, in recognition of National Workers’ Week/Labour Day. Workers’ Week is being observed under the theme ‘Together we rise, together we build and together we progress’, to pay tribute to Jamaican workers who participated in the 1938 Labour Riots, which led to improved working conditions for the workers of today. Waiting to place their wreaths (from left) are State Minister in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne; Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams (right); and Deputy Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Winston Ennis.

PHOTOS: Laying Of Wreaths In Recognition of National Workers’ Week/Labour Day

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange.
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange.

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses a digital press conference at Jamaica House on Monday (May 18).
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses a digital press conference at Jamaica House on Monday (May 18).

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Divisional Director for Industrial Relations and Allied Services in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Gillian Corrodus.
Divisional Director for Industrial Relations and Allied Services in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Gillian Corrodus.

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Public Education Officer at the Forestry Department, Daniel Dunkley, plants a Caribbean Pine in the British Forest Estate in Clarendon. The Department is offering free timber seedlings to the public for Labour Day, starting on May 18.​
Public Education Officer at the Forestry Department, Daniel Dunkley, plants a Caribbean Pine in the British Forest Estate in Clarendon. The Department is offering free timber seedlings to the public for Labour Day, starting on May 18.​

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