New wheels
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July 3, 2021

New wheels

Errol McKenzie (left), vice-chairman of Jamaica Legion, Royal Commonwealth Ex-Servicemen League, demonstrates how the new wheelchair-enabled vehicle — purchased from donated funds — works to Asif Ahmad (second left), British High Commissioner to Jamaica, and Thalia Lyn, chairman of NCB Foundation, while Brigadier Roderick Williams of the Jamaica Defence Force looks on yesterday at the handover and commissioning ceremony for the vehicle at Curphey Place in St Andrew.

(Photos: Joseph Wellington)

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