Above: the dedication photo (JIS Photo)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

A $2 million infrastructure project funded by Prince Charles through a grant from the government of Kuwait has opened in the Rose Town neighbourhood of Kingston.

The project was completed over a seven-month period. It features an improved water supply, roads and a sewerage facility.

“Where communities are strong and united, we always have peace, and it is not difficult for development to take place in such a community,” Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said at the inauguration ceremony last week.

The road project covered a stretch from Harry Street to Spanish Town road.

“It is the responsibility of every citizen of this community to protect everything that is belonging to the community,” the Prime Minister said. “It is yours, it is about you; it is not about anybody from the outside… It is about the future of your children. What we should want to see is that Rose Town is kept as beautiful as the rose.”

Christopher Berry, special advisor to Prince Charles, was on hand for the dedication.