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The new Bunkers Hill Basic School, was constructed
in Clarendon by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund
(JSIF) under the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF), funded by
the Caribbean Development Bank.

Under the European Union Banana Support Programme
(EUBSP), JSIF completed the rehabilitation of 3.7 kilometres
of farm roads in Moore Town and Cornwall Barracks,
Portland, as well as agro-business and craft training in the
area at a cost of $43.5 million.

To support crime prevention, the European Union funded
the Second Poverty Reduction Programme for €10 million.
The PRP ll targeted the rehabilitation and upgrade of roads,
schools, and community centres in volatile and vulnerable
communities including Mountain View, Maverley, Maxfield
Avenue, Waterhouse, Olympic Gardens, and Windward Road.

2011The Fund’s Gustav Emergency Recovery Project, was also

Islington Early Childhood Institution Handover

financed by the EU through an
agreement with the World Bank
and cost US$10 million.

For rural economic Children playing on the new
development, the European playground equipment at the
Union Banana Support Project Islington Early Childhood Institution.
(EUBSP) was a €$1.5 million
grant aimed at the upgrading Dr. Morais Guy, Member of Parliament for St. Mary Central (right), Maxine Henry
of agricultural feeder roads Wilson, representing the Minister and Rhonda Lumsden-Lue, JSIF General
and educational facilities in Manager, Corporate Services, at the handing over of the Islington Early Childhood
Portland, St Catherine, St Mary, Institution. This school was the first model Early Childhood Institution with state-
and Clarendon. It is expected of-the-art facilities built to the specifications of the Ministry of Education and was
to help farmers diversify their funded by the Basic Needs Trust Fund 6th Programme.
crop production as a result
of the decline in banana
production and export.

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