Minister Shaw Hails Use Of Reclaimed Bauxite Lands For Agriculture

Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw (second left), listens to farmer Leister Burton (left) while tasting a cherry tomato from Mr. Burton’s greenhouse farm in Manchester. Occasion was a recent tour of the Greenhouse Cluster and Water Harvesting Project in Content in the parish. Minister of State in the Ministry, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson, and Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, Rhoda Moy Crawford, were also on the tour.
February 23, 2022
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The Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI)/Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Greenhouse Cluster and Water Harvesting Project is being hailed as an example of sustainable land use in post-mining areas.

The project, being implemented under the World Bank-funded Rural Economic Development Initiative II (REDI II), which is administered by JSIF, seeks to enhance bauxite communities by encouraging the productive use of mined-out lands for agriculture.

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Jamaica Information Service

Regent Street Seventh-day Adventist Early Childhood Development School and the rehabilitation of the Denham Town Police Station

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Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund Omar Sweeney and Livia Eliasova, European Union coordinator for Jamaica, rap with Cataleya Barr and Amier Greenswood from the Regent Street Basic School in Denham Town Kingston during a tour of the facility recently.

Denham Town ZOSO delivering big time

Aniceto Rodriguez Ruiz (left), Head of Cooperation, Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica (EU), along with Livia Eliasova, EU coordinator, raps with Shaqwayne Williams (second right) and Marcello Richards from the Regent Street Basic School located in Denham Town Kingston. The EU conducted a tour of the community along with JSIF on February 9.
February 22, 2022
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The Denham Town Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) to date has seen considerable investments that have resulted in major rehabilitation works to the community’s roads and key community resource assets funded to the tune of over $100 million.

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Jamaica Gleaner
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