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UNDP Helping to Stabilise Community Livelihoods and Commerce in Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Six months after the passage of  Hurricane Melissa, , hundreds of Small and Micro Enterprises (SMEs) are recovering their livelihoods and markets, while thousands of community residents are benefitting from restoration of commerce and paid debris clearance programmes, under the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Jamaica Resilient Recovery Initiative (JARRI).

UNDP Assistant Resident Representative Lesley Ann Ennevor (right) supports Villette Neil, a poultry farmer who is blind, in receiving her gift of inputs to recover her poultry business resiliently. She is one of 125 SMEs who have so far received support under JARRI, in partnership with Jamaica 4H, Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers and the Bureau of Gender Affairs.

Eutelsat to Help Barbados-Based Company Expand Its Services

PARIS, France – The Paris-based satellite communications company, Eutelsat, Tuesday announced that it had entered into a partnership with the Barbados-based cable provider specialising in television services, Co-op Cable, in introducing an expanded direct-to-home (DTH) and connectivity offering across the Caribbean.

Jose Iganacio Gonzalez-Nunez, senior vice president Americas Video Business Unit at Eutelsa (right) with the chief executive officer Co-op Cable Inc, Richard Rawlins .
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