Another $75 million will be allocated under the Short Term Poverty Intervention Project this year, as the Government continues its work to protect the nation’s most vulnerable. Cabinet has approved the increased funding due to the positive impact the initiative has had on recipients. Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon Derrick Kellier, in a statement to the House on...

The National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC), in association with HelpAge International, will host its Ageing Conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on June 25, under the theme: ‘Ageing and Development, Ensuring an Enabling and Supportive Environment’. Speaking with JIS News, Executive Director at the NCSC, Angela Toyloy, said the purpose of the conference, which will begin at 8:30 a.m....

Minister for Agriculture, Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, is imploring Jamaicans to protect the nation’s children from exposure to child labour. The call was made on Friday (June 12), at the St. Catherine Child Protection Committee’s SYMPAR (Symposium Party) at the Church of God of Prophecy in Spanish Town, to mark World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL). Minister...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Colette Roberts Risden, has underscored the Government’s dedication to advancing the country’s disability agenda. In addition to the passage of the Disabilities Act, she noted that a working group has been created, “as a demonstration of the commitment to the transformation process and of making the Jamaica Council for Persons...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, says the Government is looking at legislation to better protect household workers who continue to provide valuable and essential services to many families across Jamaica. She assured that the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, with support from her office and the relevant stakeholders, “will work towards the policy framework and will...

Residents of St. Thomas are happy with the work done on Labour Day (May 25) to beautify and rehabilitate the Rudolph Elder Park in Morant Bay. “I am happy they chose our park for the National Labour Day project. It is full time now we have something like this in St. Thomas, because we too are a part of Jamaica,”...

Minister of Agriculture, Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, is calling on Jamaicans to endure a while longer, the stringencies of the Economic Reform Programme (ERP), as the Government strives to grow the economy under the current International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement. “Given the present dispensation in which we are forced to operate as a nation, we have no...