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Secretary, Treadlight Youth Community Club Benevolent Society, Polly Ann Bailey (left); Member of Parliament for Clarendon Central, Mike Henry (second left) and Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney, display symbolic cheque for $2.2 million, representing the amount spent on equipment for small business owners in Treadlight, Clarendon. The beneficiaries were presented with the equipment by JSIF at the Versalles Hotel, in May Pen, on January 29.
Secretary, Treadlight Youth Community Club Benevolent Society, Polly Ann Bailey (left); Member of Parliament for Clarendon Central, Mike Henry (second left) and Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney, display symbolic cheque for $2.2 million, representing the amount spent on equipment for small business owners in Treadlight, Clarendon. The beneficiaries were presented with the equipment by JSIF at the Versalles Hotel, in May Pen, on January 29.

Entrepreneurs in Treadlight, Clarendon, Get Equipment From JSIF

Fourteen entrepreneurs from Treadlight, in Clarendon, were presented with equipment valued at $2.2 million, on January 29, through the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP-II), of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). To date, three St. James communities and two from...
President, Vinyl Record Collectors Association (VRCA), Michael Owens (left), hands over a laptop computer to Grade Six Teacher at the Chetolah Park Primary School, Nordia Brown, during a function held on January 28 at the Chetolah Mel Nathan Education Centre in Kingston. The Vinyl Record Collectors Association donated five Laptops and 19 tablets to the school under its newly established Vilma Whyte Ellington Scholarship.
President, Vinyl Record Collectors Association (VRCA), Michael Owens (left), hands over a laptop computer to Grade Six Teacher at the Chetolah Park Primary School, Nordia Brown, during a function held on January 28 at the Chetolah Mel Nathan Education Centre in Kingston. The Vinyl Record Collectors Association donated five Laptops and 19 tablets to the school under its newly established Vilma Whyte Ellington Scholarship.

PHOTOS: Students Receive Computers
Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness. (File Photo)
Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness. (File Photo)

Prime Minister Commits to Providing Greater Protection for the Homeless Community
Children’s Advocate, Diahann Gordon Harrison (left), receives two tablets from Assistant National Secretary, Universities and Colleges Apostolic Ministry, Joan Weir, to support chuldren affected by domestic violence, during a ceremony at the Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA) in Kingston on Wednesday (January 13). Benjamin Fraser (second right) and Rasheem Martin from the Universities and Colleges Apostolic Ministry look on. The organisation also donated $15,000 for the vulnerable children.
Children’s Advocate, Diahann Gordon Harrison (left), receives two tablets from Assistant National Secretary, Universities and Colleges Apostolic Ministry, Joan Weir, to support chuldren affected by domestic violence, during a ceremony at the Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA) in Kingston on Wednesday (January 13). Benjamin Fraser (second right) and Rasheem Martin from the Universities and Colleges Apostolic Ministry look on. The organisation also donated $15,000 for the vulnerable children.

Universities And Colleges Apostolic Ministry Supports Children Affected By Domestic Violence
President of the Hinds Town Youth Empowerment Foundation in St. Ann, Laphen Haye
President of the Hinds Town Youth Empowerment Foundation in St. Ann, Laphen Haye

Foundation Donates Tablets To Needy Students In St. Ann

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Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, and Member of Parliament for West Kingston, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (left); and Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (right), applaud after the symbolic handover of a cheque to entrepreneurs (in the background) from Denham Town, Kingston, representing the value of equipment provided to improve their businesses. The presentation ceremony, under JSIF
Community

Micro-Entrepreneurs In Denham Town Receive Equipment Valued At $2.8 Million

Eight owners of microenterprises in Denham Town, Kingston, have benefited from equipment valued at $2.8 million towards improving their businesses. The support was provided under the Enterprise Development Project being implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) under the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP) Phase 2. These community entrepreneurs, which include cookshops operators, a dressmaker, a barber, and a...
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Member of Parliament for West Central St. Catherine, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), in discussion with student at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Brad Pinnock, at the entrance of the Frazer’s Content community, in the parish, where a major beautification project is under way, at a cost of $6 million provided by the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo). The Minister visited the community on December20.
Community

Major Beautification Project In Progress At Frazer’s Content

A major beautification project is being undertaken in the community of Frazer’s Content in St. Catherine, at a cost of $6 million provided by the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo). Member of Parliament for West Central St. Catherine, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, told JIS News that the entire stretch of road from the entrance to the community will see...
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Customers purchase produce at the Social Development Commission
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Small Farmers And Business Operators In St. James Benefit From SDC Community Fair

Thirty-five small farmers and 26 operators of local economic initiatives (LEI) in St. James got the opportunity to market their goods during a community market and business fair staged by the Social Development Commission (SDC) on Thursday (December 17). The event, held at Montego Park Estate in Ironshore, was the third for the parish and targeted businesses under the SDC’s...
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Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Audley Shaw (left), shares in the symbolic handover of a cheque valued at $20 million by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) to benefit community entrepreneurs under the Enterprise Development Project. Others from (second left) are Managing Director, JSIF, Omar Sweeney; beneficiaries Lorna Green and Shawn Castell; Opposition Spokesperson on Education and Training, Dr. Angela Brown Burke; and Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie. Occasion was the official launch of the project at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on December 16.
Community

115 Community Entrepreneurs To Benefit From JSIF’s $20-Million Enterprise Development Project

A total of 115 entrepreneurs from six communities across the island will benefit from business support under the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) $20-million Enterprise Development Project. The entrepreneurs are from the communities of Salt Spring and Anchovy in St. James; Treadlight in Clarendon; and August Town, Greenwich Town and Denham Town in Kingston and St. Andrew. Speaking at the...
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Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) General Manager in charge of Finance, Orville Hill.
Community

Tucker Community Benefits From JSIF-Poverty Reduction Programme Training Initiative

Some fifteen (15) persons within the Community of Tucker in Montego Bay, St. James recently benefitted from a Behaviour Modification Training programme funded by the JSIF-Poverty Reduction Programme through grant funding support from the European Union. This sub-project is one of five (5) life changing programmes being implemented by the JSIF-Poverty Reduction Programme at a cost of Three Million Jamaican...
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Community Development Officer with the Social Development Commission (SDC), Denzil Kerr (third left), assists Claudette Walters (in wheelchair), after presenting her with the unit, donated by Food For the Poor (FFP), at her home in Kitson Town, St. Catherine, on December 8. Sharing the moment (from left) are daughter of Miss Walters, Natoye Ferguson; SDC Field Supervisor, Janice Golding Williams; President of the Kitson Town Central Citizens Association, Carmen Barton, and executive member of the Association, Carole Morgan.
Community

Two Amputees In Kitson Town Receive Wheelchairs

Two elderly female amputees from the Kitson Town community in St. Catherine have received wheelchairs through a collaboration involving the Social Development Commission (SDC) and Food For the Poor (FFP). The needs of the two women came to the attention of the SDC through their work with the Kitson Town Central Citizens Association, after which they sought help from FFP,...
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