JSIF Making Moves with Chess in Schools Programme

Participants of the JSIF 2025 Summer Camp in August Town, St. Andrew, engaged in a game of chess.
August 14, 2024
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It was an exhilarating and rewarding experience to engage with 39 students from the community of August Town, St Andrew who recently concluded their sports summer camp. The camp targeted students aged 11-17 and featured an exciting chess component with a competition and awards ceremony at its pinnacle. Since its commencement in 2024, the JSIF Chess in School Programme, has engaged just over 110 students from the community of August Town in activities including summer camps and clinics, schools sensitization sessions and registration of students with FIDE – The International Chess Federation.

Chess has the power to transform lives and offers numerous benefits to students on and off the chess board including the building of a range of skills including critical thinking, decision making,  problem solving, sportsmanship, and focus. It can also be integrated into the curriculum to boost academic performance in Math and other subjects.

The Chess in School Programme is funded under the Government of Jamaica, Integrated Community Development Project 11. Kudos to Mr. Gregory Prince, Social Officer, JSIF and City Knights Chess Club for their ongoing support to the Programme.

JSIF and JPS fete students at Chambers Pen Back-to-school Fair in Hanover

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund, JSIF through the GOJ Community Electrification Project partnered with the JPS for

Scores of Households in St. Elizabeth and Manchester Wired for Electricity

Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Hon. Daryl Vaz (right) and Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund, Mr. Omar Sweeney, tour a section of Comma Pen, in St. Elizabeth, during a visit to the community, to observe house wiring and pole extension activities under the Community Electrification Programme.
July 12, 2025
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Scores of households across the parishes of St. Elizabeth and Manchester have been wired for connection to the national grid under the Government’s Community  Electrification Project. 

Being implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) in partnership with Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the project aims to regularize electricity access for communities, prioritizing vulnerable populations.  

It involves free house wiring and connection to the JPS grid for eligible households, ensuring safe and legal access to electricity.  

Scores of Households in St. Elizabeth and Manchester Wired for Electricity

cores of households across the parishes of St.

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