The Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) is reacting with “shock and outrage” at last week’s murder of an 80-year-old woman in St Ann and is demanding greater protection for the elderly, even as investigators struggle to solve the case..
In delivering on the commitment to overhaul the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles Jr is set to host the second in a series of PATH town hall meetings on Wednesday at.
CHAMBERS PEN, Hanover The sons of 82-year-old Kathrine Miller are thrilled that their mother has received a furnished, two-bedroom, concrete house worth $10 million from the Government, something they could not have done themselves. Miller has for years lived in a board house that was badly in need of repairs. Her younger son, Nigel Samuels, said they had to use tarpaulin to cover the roof of the old.
Western Bureau Two senior citizens who reside in the deep rural district of Chambers Pen, in Hanover Western, can now sleep more comfortably at night, after being gifted with newly built houses, constructed by the government under its indigent.