Basic Needs Trust Fund News Today

The Ministry of Education and Youth is receiving support from the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) to strengthen capacity in the special education sector. Approximately $34 million will be invested by the agency into various initiatives,...

Two major projects which connect communities in Marriaqua have been completed. These are: a new footpath which connects the Glenside community to the main road, and the Dumbarton River Defence. The Glenside Footpath is approximately 758ft long, complete with safety rails and drains, and was done under the Basic Needs Trust Fund at a cost of over $400,000. Parliamentary Representative for Marriaqua, St Clair Prince said these projects are much...

THE DAVY Hill Community Action Group in Montserrat recently launched a US$21,927 project funded by the CCRIF SPC, formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, to install 10 aquaponics units at the homes of community members and one...

The paved footpath at Dondo Hole, Park Hill is now complete, much to the delight of residents.

WESTERN BUREAU: TWO MONTHS away from its 100th anniversary, students and administrators at Grange Hill Primary School have welcomed the addition of eight classrooms that will reduce overcrowding and increase teacher-student contact time. Clayton...

JAMAICA LAST week hosted the first face-to-face workshop for community development professionals from 17 Caribbean islands, under the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Basic Needs...

ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) — The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CD B) says it has entered into a one-year agreement with the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) aimed at improving the ...

FIFTY-ONE community development professionals from 17 Caribbean countries are being trained in proposal writing at a workshop series funded..

The Cultural Development Foundation (CDF) has launched its Business of the Arts Certification Programme...

FIFTY-ONE community development professionals from 17 Caribbean countries are being trained in proposal writing at a workshop series funded..