JAMAICANS ARE expected to turn out in their numbers today to support Labour Day projects in hundreds of communities across the country.
Calling the nation to action, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, in her first national broadcast since assuming office, urged Jamaicans to support all Labour Day projects, particularly the cleaning of drains, gullies, parks, streets and beaches.
DEFINING MOMENT
"Let us plant as many trees as we can across the country. But even as we work shoulder to shoulder as countrymen and women, we must be determined to make today a defining moment in the history of our country," said Mrs. Simpson Miller.
The national project this year is the beautification of Water Square in Trelawny's Georgian-style town capital Falmouth. Once a home to planters, painters and poets, the Prime Minister said it is fitting that Falmouth become the place for "the awakening of the Jamaican spirit of community."
The theme for Labour Day is 'Jamaica's Beauty - Our Duty'.
In Clarendon, about 49 projects have been registered in that parish, with the focus being cleaning, bush clearing, painting, planting of flowers and trees, erection of street signs, construction of a post office, among others.
Similar projects are to be carried out in St. Ann, where 25 projects have been registered.
Cleaning the town of Port Maria in St. Mary has been designated the parish project. Planting of trees, repainting of no-parking areas, painting of sidewalks and the erection of a community notice board are some of the other projects targeted.
