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Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund, Omar Sweeney, CD. PE.
June 4, 2024
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Thousands of Jamaican households are being provided with legal connections to electricity, through the Community Electrification Programme.

The Programme, which is being administered by Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), in partnership with the Jamaica Public Service Company, has two components –house-wiring and pole line construction/extension.

Thousands Benefit from Legal Connections Through Community Electrification Programme

Thousands of Jamaican households are being provided with legal connections to electricity, through the Community Elec

More than 200 Special Education Assistants trained

Education and Youth Minister, Fayval Williams (left), observes as Chairman of the Board, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Dr. Wayne Henry (right), hands over a tablet computer to Director of The Mico University College Child Assessment and Research in Education (CARE) Centre, Sharon Anderson-Morgan. The event was the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) capacity-building for special education contract signing ceremony on May 9 at The Mico University College
May 10, 2024
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More than 200 Special Education Assistants have been trained as part of the Ministry of Education and Youth's programme to strengthen inclusive education and to ensure that no student with special needs is left behind.

More than 200 Special Education Assistants trained

More than 200 Special Education Assistants have been trained as part of the Ministry of Education and Youth's

Award-winning primary school groundsman recalls tough childhood

Hon. Fayval Williams (left), minister of education and youth (left) , and Mona Sue-Ho, Senior Manager for Social Development at the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (center), present an award to Denis Reid Groundsman at the Edward Seaga Primary School.
May 13, 2024
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Two pink poui trees shed their flowers by the hundreds in the front yard of the St Andrew Primary School but Denis Reid doesn’t mind; he sweeps them with pride. At 70 years old, he has finally found purpose. And this is it.

He is a groundsman – the best in at least four parishes islandwide, according to the 2024 Best Kept School and Community Competition put on by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), in collaboration with several other state entities.

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