Richard Morais, Gleaner Writer

(From left) Member of Parliament for north Trelawny, Dr Patrick Harris; Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) parish manager for Trelawny, Donald Robinson; principal of the Clarks Town Primary School, Sylvia Spence, and Trelawny RADA deputy parish manager, Charles Brooks, participating in the Trelawny parish project for Labour Day, the planting of trees at the Clarks Town Primary School. - Photos by Richard Morais

WESTERN BUREAU:

HUNDREDS OF Trelawny residents bought into the Labour Day theme of 'Grow what you eat, eat what you grow' last Friday by planting fruit trees.

The bulk of work, however, went into beautification projects with a number of buildings being painted.

Variety of fruit trees

The planting of fruit trees at the Clarks Town Primary School got strong support as 149 june plum, ackee, guava and cherry trees were planted on about one and a half hectares.

Dr Patrick Harris, member of parliament for North Trelawny; Government Senator Dennis Meadows; superintendent of the Trelawny Parish Council, Ezekiel Clarke; principal of Clarks Town Primary, Sylvia Spence, and Rural Agricultural Development Authority executives, Donald Robinson and Charles Brooks, all participated in the planting activities.

The Falmouth Infant School got a facelift courtesy of the Trelawny Association of Voluntary Organisation and the People's National Party Youth Organisation.

Meanwhile, the Bank of Nova Scotia gave the Falmouth Hospital a facelift with landscaping and planting of flowers.

The Howard Cooke Primary in Montego Bay, St James, was home to some 40 staff members of Caribbean Producers Jamaica Limited on Friday. The employees planted star-apple trees, painted the bathrooms and a grade-three classroom. Duke Bucknor (standing) of Caribbean Producers supervises as his colleagues (from left), Ewart Young and Nicole Tummings and school principal Lincoln James, plant a tree on Labour Day. - Photo by Janet Silvera

Corporal Denise Blackwood (left) and district constable Roydell Hamilton beautify the dilapidated Falmouth Police Station with a paint job on Labour Day in Trelawny.