Several schools to benefit under Basic Needs Trust Fund Project
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Several schools across the island are to benefit from upgrading works this fiscal year under the Basic Needs Trust Fund Project (BNTFP).
These include the Christiana Moravian Primary and Mandeville Primary in Manchester, Discovery Bay All-Age and Ocho Rios Primary in St Ann, Old Harbour Primary and Brown’s Hall Primary in St Catherine, Braes River Primary in St Elizabeth, and May Pen School of Special Education, in Clarendon.
The upgrading is to be carried out with a sum of $234 million allocated in the 2017/18 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives.
The objective of the BNTFP is to reduce poverty and vulnerability through enhanced access to basic and social infrastructure and human resource development services.
This will be achieved in three main sectors: basic community access and drainage enhancement, education and human resource development, and water and sanitation systems enhancement.
It is being implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) with funding from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Government of Jamaica.
Originally slated to run from February, 2013 to December, 2016, the project is scheduled to end in December, 2017.
