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UNDP hurricane recovery grants for TCI businesses to help rebuild & sustain economy
Forty business operators from Turks and Caicos Islands last week began to receive hurricane recovery grants as part of a wider effort to help rebuild and sustain the economy of the Islands through…
Development Minerals industry to receive entrepreneurial skills training
Quarry operators and other stakeholders in the Development Minerals industry will be trained in entrepreneurial skills under a Letter of Agreement signed yesterday by the United Nations Development…
UNDP Jamaica releases Annual Report 2017
UNDP in Jamaica presents Annual Report 2017 under the theme, Leaving No One Behind. Results, highlights and stories of UNDP at work in partnership with Government and people are presented through the…
Jacob’s Ladder – No Longer Left Behind
Securing water to satisfy every sanitation, cooking and agricultural need of this expanding community of persons living with physical and mental disabilities has always been a challenge – until a…
Crisis recovery solutions welcomed by Turks and Caicos Islanders
One hundred and three (103) Turks and Caicos Islanders who suffered losses during the passage of hurricanes Irma and Maria recently concluded participation in a cash for work clean-up programme…
UNDP cash for work programme helps hurricane-hit Turks and Caicos Islanders finance home repairs
On Turks and Caicos Islands, the tell-tale signs of two category five storms lingered through February 2018, especially on Grand Turk and South Caicos, but men and women working shoulder to shoulder…
US$6.45 Million Human Security programme for Northern Clarendon & West Kingston
More than 43 000 residents of Northern Clarendon and West Kingston are expected to benefit from better water and sanitation, entrepreneurial opportunities, enhanced governance and improved adaptation…
"We can plant 50% more" - Hope rises for schools and communities under JCCCP project
In schools and small communities hit by drought the ongoing installation of climate resilient and smart technologies and water harvesting infrastructure under the Japan Caribbean Climate Change…
Powered By The Sun
Challenged by high electricity light bills caused by illegal connections to their power supply, the St Andrew Settlement in an innercity Kingston neighbourhood sought help from the UNDP-implemented…
Five Jamaican companies start Gender Equality Seal certification programme
RUBIS Energy Jamaica, Island Grill, Facey Commodity, Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica, Development Bank of Jamaica and the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce will become the first in the English-speaking…