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In 2003, JSIF recorded 140 projects completed since JSIF also awarded 16 civil works contracts amounting to over
its inception in 1996, with further investments made in $90 million during the first quarter of 2003. The contracts
education during the year. JSIF spent $5.9 million to construct ranged from the construction of schools to the rehabilitation of
a basic school and carry out rehabilitation work on a primary roads across the island.
school in Good Hope, St. Catherine. A contract to the tune of
$5.4 million was signed for the completion of a basic school in 2003
the Delveland community in Westmoreland. Some 45 projects
were approved for the parish of St Catherine at a cost of $302
million, with JSIF providing approximately $270 million. The
projects included: construction, repairs and refurbishing of two
health centres, one infirmary, two children’s homes and places
of safety, two community centres and 19 schools, as well as
the establishment of five water projects, seven road projects,
one sanitation project, one skills training project and five
organisational strengthening projects.

JSIF gets Incorporated Master Builders
Association of Jamaica award

l-r Scarlette Gillings, JSIF Managaing Director and Dr. Wesley
Hughes, JSIF Chairman accepting the prestigious Roy McGregor
Award from the Incorporated Master Builders Association of
Jamaica. It is given to a non-builder who renders outstanding
and exemplary service to the construction industry.

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