Edward Seaga Primary School won the Best Kept School prize.

The Most Outstanding Groundsman award went to Denis Reid of St. Andrew Primary School, while Anchovy Primary School copped the Best Kept Grounds trophy.

Minister Williams, in lauding JSIF for implementing the project, said it was pivotal in empowering communities, enhancing infrastructure, improving the quality of life for countless Jamaicans islandwide, and building hope, resilience and opportunity.

Principal Shernet Clarke Tomlinson is very aware of the many negative stereotypes people have of the West Kingston inner city in which the Edward Seaga Primary School is located.

However, she told The Gleaner that those negative perceptions are not allowed to seep into the environment of the school she has headed for the last two years.

Scores of environmental wardens have been certified and recognised for their involvement in community sanitation, by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA).

The JSIF’s Environmental Wardens Programme was implemented under the second phase of the Government of Jamaica Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP 2) Solid Waste Management cycle four sub-project.

Work is under way on the construction of  a road to serve farmers in Mendez Town in Lowe River, Trelawny.

The $120 million project is being undertaken by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) in partnership with the Trelawny Municipal Corporation, with Contracts Enterprise as the contracting entity.