ANOTHER JAMAICAN farm worker has died on the programme overseas.
In a release yesterday, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, said that 31-year old Neville Bryan, who was employed on the Canadian Overseas Employment Programme and is a native of Pratville, Manchester, Jamaica was reportedly killed in a motor vehicle accident in Shelburn, Canada on Thursday, August 29 at approximately 9.15 p.m.
The Ministry's liaison office in Canada said that Mr. Bryan was hit from his bicycle by a pick-up truck. He died on the spot.
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Dean Peart, has expressed condolences and will visit the family of the deceased. The body arrived home on Thursday and the Ministry is working with the family on the funeral arrangements, as well as to ensure full compensation from the employment programme.
Mr. Bryan is the third participant in the overseas work programme, known as the farm work programme and operated through the Ministry, to have died tragically within the last three weeks.
The other victims were 31-year-old Christopher Kerr of Catherine Hall, St. James who died in a motor vehicle accident in Atlanta, U.S.A. on August 16 and 39-year old Ned Peart of May Pen, Clarendon who perished when a 450 kg kiln of tobacco fell on him while he was working on a farm in Branford, Ontario, Canada on August 22.
