Prime Minister Andrew Holness at the JLP's annual conference on Sunday.
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Prime Minister Andrew Holness
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced plans to revive the Lengthsman Programme to employ poor Jamaicans to help maintain public roads and drains.
He made the revelation at the 76th Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) annual conference on Sunday.
Mr. Holness said it was one of the mechanisms the government will use to empower low income Jamaicans so they can educate their children.
"So each lengthman will have a certain mile of road, or chains as they call it, to maintain, and they will be paid for that. We expect that that will employ a significant number of people right across rural Jamaica to ensure that they get a little piece of the prosperity, that they get a little income to help bump them out of poverty," he outlined.
Heritage trust
Mr. Holness also announced Sunday that a special trust is to be created to protect attractions and heritage sites from piracy or being sold.
He said study will also be done on assets which are vital to 'Brand Jamaica'.
"Many of these assets are now in the UDC (Urban Development Corporation). We have asked the UDC to ring-fence them and start the process now of putting them in a trust. And once they are in a trust, government can't touch them, private sector can't touch them. We own those properties," he declared.
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