The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) is resolved to ensuring the business sector survives the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic while supporting the care of patients experiencing is debilitating effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Chamber\u2019s board members are leading in putting together a number of initiatives to support the wider community and to uphold members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following an appeal to members for assistance, last week the Chamber was able to present the Cornwall Regional Hospital with monitors and other personal protection equipment (PPE) valued at $3.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has also targeted donation of care packages for 10,000 in poor communities under a \u201cLove Thy Neighbour\u201d project, which has oversight by the Chamber\u2019s company secretary, Chumu Paris, and administered under the watchful eyes of pastor, Rev Everton Jackson and his team of representatives from the beneficiary communities, because \u201cwe don\u2019t want this to be political at all,\u201d says MBCCI President, Janet Silvera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The business sector is contributing to the \u201cLove Thy Neighbour\u201d project and the first 1,000 care packages were distributed last week.
Further to that, \u201cWe also have a project where we\u2019re working with the elderly and the poor relief; we\u2019re going to try to get vitamins for them because we know that building the immune system is extremely important and a lot of the older people don\u2019t have access to vitamins,\u201d says Silvera. The vitamins project is to cost $1.3 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a wider scale, there\u2019s a \u201cMask MoBay\u201d project to be launched. Silvera says it has been observed that while a lot of people have been wearing masks, many do not know how to wear them and how to protect themselves when taking off the mask. Therefore, the Chamber of commerce will be producing a number of educational videos for public circulation showing how to handle a face mask under the present order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s also a drive on to get a number of business people to sponsor persons who may not be able to afford purchasing a mask as chamber is encouraging the wearing of masks by everyone in the city and to do so effectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the business side, the chamber has embarked upon a number of initiatives designed to assist the Montego Bay sector to be better able to cope with the current pandemic with three workshops planned for members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Silvera says MBCCI is partnering with the University of the West Indies Western Jamaica Campus on these workshops to prepare the business sector mentally for what\u2019s happening now, and how to get back on its feet once the green light is given that the worst of the pandemic has passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mental workshop will be led by a Clinical Psychologist and the other two will look at the economy and entrepreneurship with Angela Whitter spearheading. These workshops are being spearheaded by directors of the chamber but with resource persons drawn from the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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