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(From L-R) Joney Levy Smith, Acting Principal of Austin Primary School in St. Elizabeth; Ervin Bellanfante, Member of the School Board; Leela Dee Gayle, Education Officer for South Eastern Region, St. Elizabeth; Orville Hill, JSIF’s General Manager for Finance, and Basil Bennett, Board Chairman of Austin Primary, sign contracts valued at approximately $29 million, for the rehabilitation and fencing of the School, to be undertaken by the JSIF implemented Community Investment Project, which is funded by the Caribbean Development Bank.
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Such problems as chunks of ceiling falling during class and animals wandering onto the school premises should soon become things of the past at Austin Primary School in Myersville, St Elizabeth. Better conditions are also coming for Bethlehem All-Age and Infant School in the community of Malvern in the parish.Both schools will be upgraded under the Community Investment Project (CIP), which is implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and financed by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).The contracts valued at roughly $29 million, were signed last Thursday, and work is expected to be undertaken over a period of three months.