Galina Sotirova (right), World Bank Country Manager for Jamaica, cuts ribbon for the St. Mary Multi-Purpose Cooperative Cold Storage Facility in Iterboreale, St. Mary, on Friday, May 26. Others from left are Winston Simpson, principal director, Rural Agricultural Development Authority; Dr Winston Green, Member of Parliament, South East St Mary; Donovan Stanberry, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries; Althea McFarlane, marketing officer at the St. Mary Multi-purpose Cooperative; and Dwight Ricketts, Senior Field Operations Manager, Jamaica Social Investment Fund. Funded by the World Bank to the tune of over $19.5m, the project is aimed at increasing the quality and volume of products sold by the farmers and was carried out in partnership with JSIF, RADA, and the St. Mary Multi-Purpose Cooperative.
Stanberry lauds completion of St. Mary cold storage facility
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