World Bank Team Tours Projects in Barrett Town, St. James

Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister (West), Hon. Homer Davis (right), and World Bank's Country Director for the Caribbean, Lilia Burunciuc, engages students at Barrett Town Primary School in St. James, during a tour of the Barrett Town community on Friday (September 16).
September 18, 2022
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A team from the World Bank toured Barrett Town in St. James on Friday (September 16), to get a firsthand look at several projects undertaken in the area over the years under the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP).

Implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) through funding from the World Bank, ICDP, which ended in May 2021, aimed to enhance citizens’ access to basic infrastructure and services, as well as increase community safety through targeted, comprehensive violence prevention programmes.