Businesses in Barbados are again being challenged to make a concerted effort to employ more people with disabilities.Minister of Labour Colin Jordan reiterated the call during the media launch of the Deaf Ambassador Project at the Barbados Council for the Disabled (BCD) headquarters on Wednesday.He said the launch of the new initiative, which seeks to encourage more hearing impaired individuals to enter new job spaces, is an important step in normalising cooperation between deaf and hearing persons for more fruitful economic and social development on the island.“The objectives of the project to be launched today are to encourage hearing persons to interact with deaf persons and to heighten our collective awareness to the fact that our deaf citizens can also contribute to economic development, and indeed want to contribute, through involvement as productive workers once they are given the opportunity and once employers make reasonable accommodations,” Minister Jordan said.
