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Managing Director of Jamaica Social Investment Fund, Omar Sweeney (3rd left) presents contractor Steven Chung with his signed contract to undertake integrated infrastructural improvement to the Barret Town community. The signing took place on Friday at the Barrett Town Community Centre. Looking on are (from left) Councillor for the Rose Hall Division, Anthony Murray; Inspector Stanley Gordon of the Barrett Town Police Station and Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Homer Davis.
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The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is pouring millions of dollars into a number of projects aimed at transforming the crime-plagued community of Barrett Town in St James.
So far, JSIF’s commitment to Barrett Town amounts to some $177 million, drawn from a loan facilitated by the World Bank. Having first implemented a zinc fence replacement programme, ground was broken on Friday for the next step, an lntegrated Infrastructural Project of road improvement, concrete channels and drainage.