Minister Grange Participated in Labour Day

May 24, 2016May 26, 2016 News Room

Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Andrew Holness and Minister of Culture, Gender Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange look towards a gully being pointed out by Member of Parliament, East Central St. Catherine, Alando Terrelonge. They were walking towards a mosquito breeding site in Gregory Park, Portmore as part of the cleanup activities for the National Labour Day Project, yesterday, May 23, 2016.

With mosquito bourne diseases on the rise and with the deadly nuisance constantly on the prowl … the Andrew Holness led JLP government decided to focus this year’s clean up in Portmore, a dormitory community of over 100,000 inhabitants.

Swamp

It is a known fact that Portmore, St. Catherine was a swamp and was dump up and land reclaimed from the sea through dredging. There have been 5 confirmed cases of the deadly ZickV cases. So far there have been 9 confirmed cases in Jamaica so far. With this undisputed fact the JLP government has rightly decided to concentrate in this highly populated area.

We hope this will put a dent in the mosquito breeding spots.

PM Andrew Michael Holness has stated that the “mosquito is the deadliest creature on earth killing more than a million persons worldwide.”

Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie is Senior International Correspondent & photojournalist for Vision Newspaper Canada