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The project when complete will serve more than 3,000 youth who utilise the facility for sporting and educational purpose.

Seven years ago the well was decommissioned as the facility fell into disrepair, forcing management to purchase water at an unsustainable price.

The station, which serves the Braco irrigation district, is the first pump facility operated by the NIC to be retrofitted with a large-scale solar-energy photovoltaic system valued at $37.77 million.

Included in the retrofit was the installation of a 90-kilowatt grid-tied solar photovoltaic system to self-generate 75 per cent of the energy requirement of the pump station.

The Prime Minister says this is to give back to the people of Jamaica.

“Our economic strategy is economic independence. For that we mean, the ability of the country and indeed its citizens to make decisions in its own economic interest without having to consider what it owes or what it will lose if it acts or does not act in a particular way,” he said. 

In that regard, the Prime Minister contends that the administration is on a path to secure its economic independence by pushing wealth into the hands of the people.