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The Jamaica Coalition on the Rights of the Child (JCRC) [1] is a UNICEF-sponsored program in Jamaica for protection of children's rights. JCRC works to monitor and implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in Jamaica. The Coalition was established in November 1989.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Jamaica oversees Social Security and Welfare, Education Affairs and Services, and Labour Relations Employment Services. The head offices of the labour and social security divisions are in Kingston.
Universal pension (also referred to as "demogrant", "categorical pension" or "citizens pension") is a pension where the only criteria for receiving it is age and citizenship, resp. residence. Some countries are specifying these criteria further, like The Netherlands which requires 50 years of residency between ages of 15 and 65 for a full ...
[2] [3] [4] Children are admitted to the home after having been determined to be in need of care and protection as provided by the Child Care and Protection Act, which was nationalized in 2004. [5] [6] Children at the facility are referred from the Jamaican Child Development Agency (Children's Office), the police and the courts (Children's or ...
developing Jamaica's old age pension program May Farquharson OJ (26 March 1894 – 29 June 1992) was a Jamaican social worker, birth control advocate, philanthropist and reformer. She was a founder of the Jamaican Family Planning League and Mother's Welfare Clinic, as well as the driving force behind the Old Age Pension program.
The Bustamante Hospital for Children was established in 1963 and has serves approximately 35,887 outpatients and 70,331 casualties per year. [1] It has 283 including 5 ICU beds.
From 1863, the Colony of Jamaica included the Cayman Islands and from 1874, the Turks and Caicos Islands. [32] Jamaica became a crown colony in 1866 and its administration and legislative authority were transferred to the crown. [56] In 1911, at the Imperial Conference a decision was made to draft a common nationality code for use across the ...
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