JSIF signs contracts for six new projects
published: Saturday | January 11, 2003
- Ian Allen/Staff Photographer Scarlette Gillings (right), managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund, during Thursday's signing of contracts for six projects being financed by the fund, including schools in Canaan Heights, Clarendon; Friendship, Trelawny; Sandy Bank and Happy Grove, St. Elizabeth and the Spanish Town Infirmary, St. Catherine. At left is James Robertson, Member of Parliament for St. Thomas Western, where the sixth project, the upgrading of the Bethel Gap to Richmond Gap pipeline, is to take place. The contracts will cost more than $15 million.
THE JAMAICA Social Investment Fund (JSIF) today signed contracts with three firms for six new projects, four of which involve work on basic schools, the agency announced this week.
Together, the contracts signed at the JSIF's New Kingston offices are valued at $15.717 million.
Guarantee Construction Com-pany Limited was awarded two separate contracts for basic school projects in St. Elizabeth, to build a basic school at Happy Grove, for $4.738 million; and to rehabilitation of the Sandy Bank Basic School for $629,000.
New Era Fencing was also awarded two contracts each valued at more than $400,000. The company will be erecting fencing at the Canaan Heights Basic School in Clarendon and the Friendship Basic School in Trelawny.
Since its six-year inception, JSIF has spent more than $641 million in the construction, rehabilitation and upgrading of basic, primary and all age schools.
A contract was also awarded to HDB Construction Limited for the upgrading of the water pipeline from Bethel Gap to Richmond Gap in St. Thomas. The job will cost just over $9 million and is being carried out ahead of three road projects which JSIF will be implementing in the parish this year.
HDB Construction Limited was also awarded a $1.35 million contract to carry out minor works at the Spanish Town infirmary in St. Catherine.
