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Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson (left), in conversation with Permanent Secretary, Colette Roberts Risden (centre) and World Bank Country Manager, Galina Sotirova, at the launch of PATH’s Youth Ambassador Programme on November 9, at Mona Visitors’ Lodge, in Kingston.
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson (left), in conversation with Permanent Secretary, Colette Roberts Risden (centre) and World Bank Country Manager, Galina Sotirova, at the launch of PATH’s Youth Ambassador Programme on November 9, at Mona Visitors’ Lodge, in Kingston.

Persons Selected to be Youth Ambassadors for PATH

Sixteen persons have been selected to be Youth Ambassadors for the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH). This is to support the main objective of PATH to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty by reducing stigma and discrimination...
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson, delivering the keynote address at the PATH Top Achievers’ Awards ceremony, held at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge on November 9.
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson, delivering the keynote address at the PATH Top Achievers’ Awards ceremony, held at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge on November 9.

PATH Students Recognised for Academic Achievements
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson, delivering the keynote address at the PATH Top Achievers’ Awards ceremony, held at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge on November 9.
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson, delivering the keynote address at the PATH Top Achievers’ Awards ceremony, held at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge on November 9.

$30 Million Allocated for Extension of TAG
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson (right), greets Professor of Coastal and Environmental Management at the University of the West Indies (Mona), Dale Webber, just before the start of the sixth annual ‘On the Road, On the Job’ International Safety Workshop, held on November 2, at The Knutsford Court Hotel. At centre is Managing Director of Grennell’s Driving School, Alphonso Grennell.
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson (right), greets Professor of Coastal and Environmental Management at the University of the West Indies (Mona), Dale Webber, just before the start of the sixth annual ‘On the Road, On the Job’ International Safety Workshop, held on November 2, at The Knutsford Court Hotel. At centre is Managing Director of Grennell’s Driving School, Alphonso Grennell.

Passage of OSHA Remains High on Labour Ministry’s Agenda
Additional classrooms constructed at the Discovery Bay All-Age School, to remove the institution from the shift system. They were built through the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF) Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) programme. (File)
Additional classrooms constructed at the Discovery Bay All-Age School, to remove the institution from the shift system. They were built through the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF) Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) programme. (File)

JSIF Has Spent $18.6 Billion on Social Development Projects

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Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson.
LabourTourism

Minister Robinson Welcomes Upgrading Works in Ocho Rios

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson, has welcomed upgrading works being undertaken by the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) in resort town Ocho Rios, noting that the projects will boost tourism and create employment. “I am all about employment and what is in the best interest of the people,” said Mrs. Robinson who is also the Member...
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Executive Director of the National Council for Senior Citizens, Cassandra Morrison.
Labour

Do Not Abuse the Elderly

Acting Executive Director of the National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC), Cassandra Morrison, is imploring Jamaicans to take care of their elderly relatives and not abuse them. She noted that the country’s seniors are valuable contributors to national development, and the NCSC sees them as “resources to Jamaica and not as burdens”. Ms. Morrison, who was speaking in an interview...
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LabourParliament

Actuarial Review of NIS Every Three Years

The House of Representatives has approved amendments to the National Insurance (Amendment) Act, allowing for an actuarial review of the national insurance scheme (NIS) every three years, instead of the current five years. The Bill was piloted by Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Shahine Robinson, in the House on September 28. Mrs. Robinson said the reduction in the...
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Rodney Rose of the Charles Town Maroon Council (right), blows an abeng to welcome persons to the launch of a National Community Tourism Portal by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) at the Devonshire, Devon House on September 28. Looking on are (from left) Tourism Specialist with JSIF, Beverly Stewart; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith; Managing Director at JSIF, Omar Sweeney; and World Bank Country Manager, Galina Sotirova. In the background (at right) is Marcia Douglas of the Charles Town Maroon Council. The National Community Tourism Portal is a web-based platform to promote registered community-based tourism enterprises in Jamaica.
LabourTourism

National Community Tourism Portal Launched

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has launched a National Community Tourism Portal, which is a web-based platform to promote licensed community-based tourism enterprises across the island. The portal, launched at the Devonshire at Devon House in St. Andrew, today (September 28), is part of the Government’s US$15-million Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) project, being implemented by JSIF through funding...
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Executive Director of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD), Mrs. Christine Hendricks. (File)
LabourTourism

Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) Commends Tourism Ministry

Executive Director of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD), Christine Hendricks, is lauding the Tourism Ministry for enabling access to some of the island’s best beaches by the physically challenged. Mrs. Hendricks noted that retrofitting the Boston Beach in Portland with wheelchair ramps and international standard design for bathroom fixtures as part of the Ministry’s National Beach Development...
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Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (right), and Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney, examine one of two wood chipper machines which, along with 30 bins, were handed over to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) by JSIF for use in a waste separation and compost project to be jointly undertaken by the agencies in collaboration with Recycling Partners of Jamaica.
CommunityLabourLocal Government

JSIF, NSWMA Embarking on Waste Separation Project

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has provided just over 2,000 bins and two wood-chipping machines, valuing nearly $22 million, to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA). These will be used to assist in improving garbage collection and disposal in 30 communities islandwide under a waste-separation and compost project being jointly undertaken by the agencies with input from the...
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Winner of the National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC) 2016 Spelling Bee Competition, Lenworth Wright (centre), receives his awards from NCSC Chairperson, Dorothy Finlayson (right), following the final for the event’s 12th staging at the St. Andrew Parish Church hall in Kingston on September 15. Sharing the moment is Acting NCSC Parish Coordinator for Trelawny, Lloydia Williams.
Labour

History Created in National Senior Citizens Spelling Bee Competition

Sixty-three-year-old Lenworth Wright from Trelawny created history after winning the 2016 National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC) Spelling Bee championship. In winning the annual tournament during the final at the St. Andrew Parish Church hall in Kingston on September 15, Mr. Wright earned the distinction of being the first male to do so since the competition’s inception in 2004 He...
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