THE Ministry of National Security will continue to collaborate with social intervention agencies to reform and build communities while positively transforming the lives of the residents.

This was disclosed by portfolio minister Dr Horace Chang, during the opening ceremony for the third staging of the symposium of best practices in social and community development at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston, yesterday.

“I have seen communities where we have done a lot of the physical work, we still have some more of the soft side to do, but gang wars continue to be a problem,” he said.

He said agencies such as the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) and the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), among others, are important to working with communities to effect change “that will not only bring about physical transformation but human transformation”.

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