KINGSTON (JIS):
November 24, 2009
Minister of State with responsibility for Local Government, Hon. Robert Montague, has said that the Department is contemplating legal action, under the Maintenance Act, against Jamaicans, who abandon their elderly parents in state care.
"You have some children out there, lawyers, doctors, teachers, who have abandoned their elderly relatives and leave them to the state and we need to deal with that," Mr. Montague stated yesterday (November 23) as he addressed a contract signing ceremony held at the Department's Hagley Park Road office.
He noted that while the Maintenance Act is usually enforced against delinquent fathers, it is rarely imposed against children of the elderly.
According to the Local Government State Minister, some elderly persons are taken to the infirmaries by family members, who then take control of their possessions. He noted that this ought not to happen.
Abridged
SOURCE: Jamaica Information Service
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