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Labour and Social Security Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says the quality of service offered by the ministry is to be improved through the establishment of a contact centre as part of the thrust to provide greater efficiency. “This is being...

Mounting criticism of PATH

FROM workers complaining about poor working and living conditions, to employers complaining about the poor work ethics of some Jamaicans, the Canadian farm work programme was dogged by controversi...

Jamaica now has an official Accessibility Checklist for persons living with disabilities which complements the long called for Disabilities Act 2022, that was made effective on Valentine’s Day that year by the Government. This checklist is...

AMID recent unsavoury reports about some Jamaicans participating in the overseas farm work programme, Member of Parliament (MP) for St Elizabeth North Eastern Delroy Slowley is calling for the int...

CHAIRMAN OF the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) Mikael Phillips has urged the administration to step up its efforts to recruit more social workers to effectively administer the Programme of Advancement Through Health and...

There can be no denying the value to Jamaicans of farm work programmes in North America, which goes back decades. It started in the 1940s at the height of World War II as the war effort tugge...

THE undesirable conduct and poor work ethic of some Jamaicans participating in Government's overseas farm work programme is making it difficult for other nationals to secure employment. This was ...

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security is reporting that work continues in earnest to reach persons being targeted for the Government’s Social Pension Programme. The programme, which officially came on stream in 2021, is geared towards Jamaican...

It is not Star Trek or some corny analogy, but the women have crossed another frontier yet to be celebrated by the deadlocked lawyer and the Chinese businessman. From one single defensive error, by Deneisha Blackwood, the hybrid of Carl Brown and...