US$65mil loan to improve JA’s social services

[Dr.Dudd]

US$65mil loan to improve JA’s social services
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
The World Bank has approved three loans to Jamaica valued at US$65 million or more than J$4 billion.

The loans which were approved Tuesday will be used to support Jamaica's efforts to strengthen its social security safety net, improve social services for children and finance HIV/AIDS prevention and control.

They are to be repaid in 30 years.

The payment schedule includes a five year grace period.

The first loan of US$10 million is to help implement the Government's HIV/AIDS Program by supporting prevention efforts targeting high risk groups.

A portion of the money will be used to increase access to treatment as well as provide care and support services for infected and affected individuals.

The second loan which amounts to US$40 million will go to the Social Protection Project.

It will be used mainly to boost the PATH Programme and reform the public sector pension scheme.

The third loan is for US$15 million to be used to co-finance the implementation of Jamaica's National Strategic Plan for Early Childhood Development.

The programme among other things provides for early screening and diagnosis of at-risk children.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: US$65mil loan to improve JA’s social services

Another pair of chains around the ankles of jamaica.

Where is all this in thn eprioriyies of Jamaica? This is all about the priorities of the US.
Why is Jamaica borrowing US$65 million to spend on these areas,while the US is cutting their spending there?

This is what i write about all th ewhile. there is nothing wrong with loans, but loans should be used to increase the earning potential of the people.

Why is it more important to spend US$40 million of borrowewd

money on HIV, when we can't even create jobs for the healthy,

ho will have to pay or suffer the consequences of the government

paying these loans instead of developing their earning potentials?

They are swiftly bringing Jamaica back in the World Bank debt prison, and ther will be nothingg to show for it.

What about the world basnk lending the country the US$65 million to finance small business?

They would never do that. And if they say so on paper,when you read the fine print, it does the opposite.

This is all about enslaving the people ,and nothing more.

This will bring no benefit to Jamaica and pribably intriduce ineffective treatment regimes that only lake the situatioin worse.

[bee_bop]

Re: US$65mil loan to improve JA’s social services

<span style="color: #660000">This administration is no different from the one where the 'man' run wid de bag...
Everybody want their fair share (if you can call it that), this administration only saying, "it's our time now."
Watch and see how much of the public purse become unaccounted for, then they sell-out the country (if there is anything left to sell, other than human bodies), as part of their brilliant tenure of office...</span> [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70361-embarassed.gif[/img]

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: US$65mil loan to improve JA’s social services

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Littleman</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="color: #660000">This administration is no different from the one where the 'man' run wid de bag...
Everybody want their fair share (if you can call it that), this administration only saying, "it's our time now."
Watch and see how much of the public purse become unaccounted for, then they sell-out the country (if there is anything left to sell, other than human bodies), as part of their brilliant tenure of office...</span> [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70361-embarassed.gif[/img] </div></div> the world bank and the IMF are like having a bar and a liquor store on every corner in the ghetto. they are there to destroy th epopulation of the place.

[Seveen]

Re: US$65mil loan to improve JA’s social services

Thousands benefit from free health care


Friday, April 25, 2008



SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine - Over 100,000 people have benefitted so far since government instituted the no user fee policy in public hospitals three weeks ago.

Reports from the health ministry show that some 152,569 patients have benefited from the new policy - hospital registration accounted for over 90,000 while just over 70,000 were registered at type three to type five health centres. Some $24.3 million in hospital registration fees has been waived.

Dr Marion Bullock-Ducasse, senior medical officer in the Ministry of Health, made the report on the health minister's behalf Tuesday, at a handing over ceremony for the Operation Certification Programme at the Registrar General's Department, St Catherine.

She said the abolition of the user fee policy is geared at improving the lives of those who now have unrestricted access to basic health care services, noting that it was a plank on which his ministry endeavours to build a modern and sustainable health sector.

Operation Certification is an Inner City Basic Services Project (ICBSP) launched by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) in January in 14 inner-city communities islandwide, geared at improving access to innumerable basic services where many encounter challenges. One such service is facilitating the acquisition of civil registration documents as well as creating opportunities for inner-city persons to gain access to services and programmes provided by state agencies that will help to enhance and improve their quality of life.

During the four-month project, 1,200 birth certificates were obtained from the RGD at a subsidised cost of $100 for people who could not afford the $750 fee.

Thirty-two children from the Little Angel Early Childhood Basic School in Spanish Town received their birth certificates and are now able to complete their school registration.
Through a subsidy of $1.3 million, the 12 ICBSPs were provided with their civil registration documents.

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