Code of Conduct
signed by all As of February 15, 2006, all Members of Parliament and Senators have affixed their signatures to the Revised Agreement and Declaration on Political Conduct, the Political Ombudsman disclosed
Thursday.
On September 20, 2005, the revised document was presented in the House of Parliament and received the approval of the leaders of the nation's two main political parties. Since that time, all elected political representatives, primarily Members of Parliament and Senators were urged to sign the document which would serve to guide their political practices.
NHT completes lots
for sugar workers
The National Housing Trust has so far spent over $900 million on the Sugar Workers Housing Programme (SWHP). An estimated $1.7 billion is projected to be spent on the SWHP which, when completed, will provide just under 3,000 service lots to sugar workers on estates across the island.
So far 1,490 serviced lots have already been completed and another 402 are scheduled for completion next month.
Part settlement for slain farm workers' families
The court case against the man who killed two Jamaican farm workers in Canada is proceeding well with one family receiving part settlement from the insurance company, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Horace Dalley, said yesterday.
"The case is going very, very well in the case of McNeill. The Bells from Clarendon have decided not to use the lawyer provided by the Ministry of Labour and they have used their relatives in Canada, so they are proceeding with that," Minister Dalley said.
Last year, the two Jamaican farm workers, 54-year-old William Bell of Sandy River District in Kellits, Clarendon, and 39-year-old Desmond McNeill of Lennox Bigwoods District in Darliston, Westmoreland, died in hospital after being hit off their pedal cycles while riding in the Simcoe area in Ontario. Another farm worker, 35-year-old Frederick Smith of Ticky Ticky, Coleyville, Manchester, was also injured in the incident.
