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New Fortress Energy gives $5m in school supplies out west

Western Bureau: Three hundred students from 17 schools in St James were the grateful recipients of $5 million in school supplies provided by the New Fortress Energy company, which had a somewhat scaled-down back-to-school fair on the grounds of...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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