Nearly 50 per cent of the staff at Caribbean Cement Company Limited has been vaccinated.

This was revealed by Yago Castro, Carib Cement’s managing director, who was speaking during the official commissioning of an 800 square-metre concrete road in the community of Taylor Land, East Rural St Andrew, on October 7.

“We are above the national average, which we need to continue to push higher. More than 150 people or (45 per cent) in our company have already been vaccinated and this is something I am personally proud of,” he said.

Castro, who echoed similar sentiments to those of Juliet Holness, the member of parliament for the constituency, in encouraging residents to become vaccinated, noted that this is necessary in order to get children back to school, people to offices, and to really recover the economy of the country.  

Carib Cement has been taking proactive steps through the Private Sector Vaccine Initiative (PSVI) to have staff vaccinated with regular visits to the Girl Guides Association of Jamaica vaccination site in Kingston.  

Meanwhile, in describing herself as an advocate for vaccines, Holness, who took theAstraZeneca shot, emphasised its how safe it was, noting that no Jamaican has died from taking vaccines.

Completed at a cost of $7 million, the concrete roadway is a part of a total of 1,400 square metres of concrete solution constructed by the cement company in Taylor Land and surrounding communities.  

This is part of the more than $25 million spent by Caribbean Cement Company Limited in the Bull Bay area of St Andrew over three years, not only on road construction, but on scholarships and COVID-19 relief.