Zinc Fences to be Removed From Barrett Town Communities

Tourism Minister and Member of Parliament for St. James East Central, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (2nd left); Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (3rd right), affix their signatures to the financing agreement between the JSIF and the Barrett Town Community Development Committee Benevolent Society; for the removal of zinc fences from several areas of the community. Others signing (from left) are: JSIF's General Manager for Project Management, Loy Malcolm; Vice President, Barrett Town Community Development Committee Benevolent Society, Roxroy Dinham, and Councillor for the Rose Hall Division, Anthony Murray. In the background are JSIF Programmes Officer, Dawn Allison (3rd left); and Treasurer/Assistant Secretary, Barrett Town Community Development Committee Benevolent Society, Murine Dixon. The agreement was signed during a ceremony held on February 7, 2017 at the JSIF on Oxford Road, in New Kingston.
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Several communities in Barrett Town in St. James are to be rid of the zinc fences, which make the areas unsightly and hinder effective policing.
The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), on February 7, 2017 signed a financing agreement with the Barrett Town Community Development Committee Benevolent Society for the works, which will be carried out under the Zinc Fence Removal Project.