Mary Reid

The High Commissioner set up a working lunch for me today and invited a number of people who might be interested in developing links between the two Kingstons. 

These included  the Town Clerk and a leading councillor from Kingston (sitting on either side of me in the photo - she is the councillor) plus civil servants from the Ministry of Education and the equivalent of our Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.  Standing on the right is Les Green who was with the Met Police on Operation Trident but is now working for the Jamaican Police.

It was a fascinating conversation ranging over afterschool care and activities for children, youth offending, relationships between police, schools and local communities, quality of nursery provision, teacher exchanges - lots we can learn from each other.

This follows on from the meeting we had back home just after Christmas.