BLACK RIVER, St. Elizabeth:
The St. Elizabeth Parish Council has made an interim arrangement, which could see the merger of the Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) and the Outdoor Poor Relief Operation in St. Elizabeth.
The Poor Relief Committee of the agency for some time now had brought up the matter to bring the persons who were classified as Outdoor Poor (poor persons who are not living in an infirmary), under the PATH scheme.
According to inspector of poor of the St. Elizabeth Parish Council, Joan Beckford, "Some 95 per cent of the Outdoor Poor persons in the parish are currently getting benefits under the PATH scheme."
Speaking at a recent meeting of the Council's Poor Relief Committee in Black River, Mrs. Beckford said, that a revision of the number of Outdoor Poor in St. Elizabeth will be conducted before the end of February.
The committee members agreed that having all the beneficiaries under one scheme would make the programme easier to manage.
R.D.
