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  • What can Greece Learn from Jamaica?

    Several months ago a yawning fiscal deficit, spiraling financing costs and a closed capital market threatened a full blooded economic disaster in Jamaica. A number of rating downgrades coupled with a very unstable currency added to the frustration of Jamaicans. The country needed a “game changing” event since the often adopted “muddle through” option was no longer available or applicable to a very bad economic backdrop. Taking the ‘bull by the horn’, the Jamaican economy took its first stride on its path to emerge from its fiscal woes.

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  • SCOTIA Supports Inner-city Kids with Mentorship Programme

    - Staff Volunteer in Big Brother Big Sister Initiative

    While many Jamaicans often use their Sundays to do their routine weekly chores, or get some well needed R&R, a group of employees of Scotiabank take this time to regularly bond and lyme with a few youngsters whom they were mentor through the Scotiabank’s Big Brother Big Sister Mentorship Programme.

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  • Scotiabank HIV Debates Stage Regional Finals

    - Progamme in Final Year; Changes Lives Forever

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  • Scotiabank Donates Bus to the Jamaica Red Cross

    April 20, 2010 - Scotiabank Jamaica today handed over a brand new Nissan Caravan to the Jamaica Red Cross to replace the organization’s bus which was stolen by criminal elements in October 2008. Since then, the organization has been conducting it outreach initiatives with a vehicle which was on loan to the organization.

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  • Scotia Volunteers Build Basic School For Children Without A School House in Clarendon

    Going to school for 50 small children at the Alexandria and Hope Basic Schools in New Ground Clarendon is an exciting adventure, as with all children their age. They are oblivious to the fact that it’s a cellar in the principal’s home and a changing room in the community centre that’s “school”. Teachers and students in the changing room deal with a leaking roof, no windows, no doors and rough concrete floors which left the children with several bruises when they fall.

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