ST JAMES, Jamaica —Chief Executive Officer of the Digicel Foundation, Charmaine Daniels, has revealed that the entity will be implementing changes going forward as it builds Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) laboratories in schools.

Daniels’ remarks came during a handover event for Hurricane Melissa relief funds to five western Jamaica-based primary schools on Thursday at the Anchovy Primary School in St James.

“You’re never too old to learn, so we will never put back a lab upstairs,” she told the gathering of beneficiaries of grants, which are also recipients of ICT labs.

“We will be building back Anchovy Primary. We are going to build back Unity’s lab as well. These two labs were upstairs, and they were totally destroyed,” she said.

Following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, several ICT labs donated through the efforts of the foundation to primary schools were significantly affected.

“Hurricane Melissa challenged us in many ways, but it also taught us some important lessons. We now understand that when we build, we must build differently, stronger, smarter and more intentional.”

Daniels also highlighted another feature that they will be looking at as it relates to dealing with the labs that were damaged during the storm.

“Our smart labs will be installed in spaces with slab-top roofs,” she said.