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Jamaica Gleaner Lifestyle
published: Tuesday | May 23, 2006

Celebrating Labour Day
TODAY IS Labour Day and it is intended to be a day of reprieve from work. But instead, we are usually caught up doing volunteer work in the community. This has been so since 1972. Despite what Labour Day is today, in the past it was never....

National project - refurbishing the Falmouth Water Square
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: LABOUR DAY is as old as our independence. It started in 1961 when the then Prime Minister, the late Right Excellent Norman Washington Manley, abolished Empire Day and replaced it with Labour Day, using May 23, in celebration...




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