Concerns about social interventions under ZOSOs

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Concerns about social interventions under ZOSOs

Some concerns are being raised about the design of social intervention programmes being implemented under zones of special operations (ZOSO). Speaking during a Gleaner Editors’ Forum on Friday looking at the prime minister's declaration...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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