Opposition Spokesperson Dr Angela Brown Burke says Jamaica's social protection system has been reduced to charitable handouts — and that the State's obligation to its most vulnerable citizens demands far more than that.

Kingston, Jamaica — Calvin G. Brown | May 7, 2026 - When a government reframes poverty as a personal failure and social support as an act of generosity, the architecture of injustice is already in place. That, in essence, is the indictment that Opposition Spokesperson on Social Protection and Social Transformation, Dr Angela Brown Burke, levelled at Jamaica's current social protection system during her Sectoral Presentation in Parliament on Tuesday — and she was not mincing words.