LADY BUSTAMANTE'S caregivers have been hailed by Parliament for the way in which they dedicated their lives to ensuring the good health and comfort of the country's matriarch.

"I cannot stress too much the value of the work that was done by Seragh Lakasingh and his wife Effie," Prime Minister Bruce Golding said during a salute to Lady Bustamante inside Gordon House on Wednesday.

"We were loving her from a distance; they were ensuring that they kept her in the best possible condition that her age and circumstances would have allowed," Prime Minister Golding said.

Lady Bustamente died last Saturday at age 97. She will be buried beside her husband, Sir Alexander Bustamante - Jamaica's first prime minister - at the National Heroes Park, on August 8.

Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller, who hailed Lady Bustamante as a trailblazer for Jamaican women, also saluted the role played by her caregivers.

"She gave us the vision that we have the right to participate fully in the development of our country," Simpson Miller said.

With regard to her caregivers, Simpson Miller said they had provided high-quality care and "did so at a time when for many of our seniors who served, there were no support systems in place".

Culture Minister Olivia Grange, Transport Minister Mike Henry, Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett, Health Minister Rudyard Spencer, West St Mary Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Montague, as well as Opposition MPs Roger Clarke and Robert Pickersgill, also paid tribute to Lady Bustamante and her caregivers.

"Lady B was a wonderful lady and I thank all those who have been there for her," Grange said.

Among the caregivers mentioned by Prime Minister Golding, who, he said, "are never in the photographs and are never mentioned in the reports in the papers", are Lady B's physiotherapist Caroline Donaldson; her household staff comprising Florence Lindo, Leena Lemar and Nelly Walker; her nurses Shantine McKenzie, Sylvia Bryan, Janice Palmer, Nicole Jenkins and Carol-Hay Moodie; groundsman Van Walker; and, members of her security detail.

Golding said that the "Government is considering an appropriate and fitting memorial to Lady Bustamente ... a lasting memorial to the life and the works of this great woman".