01
rime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (left), presents a framed citation to outgoing Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Scarlette Gillings, during a farewell luncheon in honour of the outgoing Managing Director at the Mona Visitor’s Lodge and Conference Centre in St. Andrew on June 17, 2015.
News Detail
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has commended former Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Mrs. Scarlette Gillings for her contribution to the Government’s efforts to reduce poverty in Jamaica. Delivering the main address at a Farewell Function in honour of Mrs. Gillings on Wednesday (June 17) at the Mona Visitor’s Lodge at the University of the West Indies, the Prime Minister noted that “It is significant when someone spends 30 years working to improve the living conditions of other people. This is what her (Scarlette Gillings) career has been about.”
As JSIF’s Managing Director for 18 years, after its establishment in 1996, Mrs. Gillings directed the Fund’s nationwide Poverty Alleviation Project at a value of some US$177 million, with funding by the Government of Jamaica, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Union, the Caribbean Development Bank and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.