EDITOR’S NOTE: From edition 2021-03-19, #InfrastruCaribe has continued its series dealing with social infrastructure in the Caribbean. This newsletter is no different. Our focus this time around is educational facilities. Four locations are covered, namely: The Cayman Islands, Jamaica, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guyana. Guyana has two of the five articles, and there is one each for the three others.
The headline taken from Cayman News Service reads: “JGHS $75M Phase 1 Project On Target, Says Minister”. It speaks to the phased construction of the John Gray High School (JGHS) which is estimated to cost $200 million on completion. Phase 1 is scheduled for completion in August, just before the start of the new school year. However, the project goes back as far as the 2008 global recession.
In Jamaica, the Aviation Authority of Jamaica is seeking to partner with small aircraft operators and overseas aviation training schools to establish an aviation training hub there. And in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the University of the Virgin Islands is seeking to utilize a $4.1M award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to retrofit 5 of its dormitories and a library to withstand hurricane-force winds.
Finally, Guyana broke ground for a new secondary school in February in an effort to achieve Universal Secondary Education, having achieved Universal Primary Education between 2012 to 2014. Their second project is the construction of a primary school to accommodate 200 students which is 60 per cent complete to date and is scheduled for completion in July.
InfrastruCaribe Weekday ed. 2021-03-30
