2017 St James Parish Ambassadors Camara Babb and Christopher Nelson planting a West Indian Cherry Tree on the premises of St James Primary School with the assistance of students yesterday.
The St James Parish Independence Committee (PIC) continued the ‘Planting Pride’ initiative at St James Primary School, yesterday.
Students joined the 2017 Parish Ambassadors Camara Babb and Christopher Nelson for the planting of a West Indian Cherry Tree, donated by the Soil Conservation Unit.
St Silas Primary and St James Secondary schools have already received fruit trees within the parish, revealed St James PIC Attendant, Romel Bishop.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the tree planting ceremony, he also disclosed that this year, the St James PIC will continue to push its Junior Ambassador Programme for primary and secondary school students within that parish.
The programme is designed to create a strong and lasting sense of community commitment, nationalism among children, and expose them to the parish.
Bishop said that there are currently seeking to get students from St James Primary involved in the programme, as St Albans Primary and St James Secondary are already participating.
“In fact, we are looking to grow the programme significantly, even to a national level. Then we will have more young people interested in the Parish Ambassador Programme from a very young age…”
Parish activities continue on Saturday, May 20th with a Cricket Match at Orange Hill, and a Talent Show on June 17th at the Learning Centre.
St James 2017 Parish Project is entitled “P I E C E S – a part of something greater”.
The goal of this project is to strengthen the St. James community through the collaborative exchange of education, information, training, skills and talents. (TL)