Dancehall artiste Beenie Man (left) and Digicel Jamaica's Head of Public Relations, Elon Parkinson, teamed up to get the job done quickly at the Digicel Foundation Labour Day project, which was geared at reviving the Trench Town Agri-Business Cooperative Society's greenhouses. In addition to the greenhouse, where volunteers planted sweet peppers, they bushed the grounds and painted the administrative office. Digicel Foundation also donated a laptop computer and a printer to the cooperative in order to assist with proper record keeping and financial accounting.<b>Photo: couretsy Digicel</b>
May 22, 2016
‘Corporating’
As is customary on Labour Day — observed yesterday — hundreds of people across the country dedicate their time and energy to volunteer for projects at schools, hospitals, police stations, and other community-based organisations. They build, renovate, repaint, clean, plant gardens, donate equipment, among other things. Here, we show you how some members of corporate Jamaica spent the day.
Managing Director of Flow Garry Sinclair joined members of his staff who freshened the paint job and improved the vegetable garden at Shortwood Practising School in St Andrew.<strong> (Photo: Naomi Francis)</strong>
Staff members of the Jamaica Private Power Company, led by General Manager Ingrid Christian-Baker (second right), were out in their numbers at the Rockfort Police Station where they improved on the grounds, to include planting a lawn and paving some sections.<b>Photo: Antonio Graham</b>
Member of Parliament for St Andrew East Rural Juliet Holness (left) and president and CEO of Jamaica Public Service Compnay Kelly Tomblin did their Labour Day project at Grove Primary in the constituency.<b>Photo: Aston Spaulding</b>
Acting managing director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) Paul Abrahams (left) and the company’s Marketing and Communications Manager Clinton Clarke repaint a pedestrian crossing in Twickenham Park, just outside Spanish Town. Other JUTC staffers volunteered on the project.<b>Photo: Aston Spaulding</b>
Deniesha Pitter-Gregory (foreground) and other Unicomer (Jamaica) Limited volunteers pay keen attention to detail as they paint a section of the Accident and Emergency Unit at Port Maria Hospital yesterday. It was one of four public hospitals at which the furniture and appliance giant carried out projects to include painting and the donation of air conditioning units and nebulisers. The others were Spanish Town, St Ann’s Bay, and Bustamante Hospital for Children.<b>Photo: Collin Reid </b>
