SFC Report: Labour Minister pleads with gov’t to help seniors!

Minister for Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration, Vincent Wheatley, has extended a plea for government to intervene to bring more relief to seniors.

This is according to the report of the House of Assembly’s (HOA) Standing Finance Committee (SFC) budget deliberations which were held late last year.

Wheatley, who is also the Ninth District Representative, requested that the Senior Programme under the Ministry of Health and Social Development (MHSD) be reinstated.

The Labour Minister further told those in attendance at the SFC meeting that throughout the BVI, seniors are without proper care and attention that is needed.