Violent halt - Flare-ups put brakes on Zika fight & infrastructural projects

Managing Director of the JSIF, Mr. Omar Sweeney makes impassioned plea to residents of communities plagued by violence, to cooperate with the security forces to ease tensions in these areas so that planned social and infrastructural projects to be implemented by the JSIF can be implemented.
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A major clean-up exercise to rid communities of mosquito breeding sites to prevent the spread of the Zika virus has been stalled, at least for now, because of the flare-up of violence in a number of targeted communities.
The clean-up activities were planned by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and the Ministry of Health.