The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) continues to provide affordable housing solutions for low and middle-income-earning Jamaicans as well as provide for the regularisation of informal settlements. Providing an update on the agency in his contribution to the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives recently, Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, said of the 14,000 housing solutions...

Up to 10 per cent of the housing solutions in the National Housing Trust (NHT) current housing plan will be reserved for contributors under the age of 35 years old. Making the announcement during his contribution to the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 21, Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, said the policy change...

Several micro, small and medium-sized business operators in Kingston and St. Andrew benefited from the National Housing Trust’s third Compliance Engagement and Mobilisation Session (Compliance 365) at Mandela Park in Half-Way Tree, St. Andrew, on Thursday (March 7). NHT Assistant General Manager for Compliance, Dameon McNally, said the session is pivotal to the entity’s thrust to improve compliance among members...

Real estate dealers across Jamaica are now required to submit weekly updated lists of salespersons within their employ who have paid the requisite licensing fees, along with proof of the payments. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Real Estate Board (REB), Phillip Chambers, says this will greatly improve the entity’s payment confirmation and receipting process. Additionally, he said it will...

The Real Estate Board (REB) says no one will be disenfranchised by the creation of the Client Facilitation Unit that will serve dealerships with more than 50 salesmen. This reassurance comes amid concerns that some salesmen and dealers may be overlooked when the Unit begins operations in the new licensing period that will begin on March 31. “No dealer, or...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (second left), hands over the New Social Housing Programme contract and keys to beneficiary of the programme, Bertlyn Black (third left) on February 21, at Lancewood in St. Elizabeth. Sharing the moment are (from left) Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie; Councillor for the Brompton Division, Whitney Smith Currie;...

An estimated $195 million will be used to complete the establishment of a United Nations (UN) House in the upcoming fiscal year. The sum is contained in the 2024/25 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The Government-funded project began in 2017 and is scheduled to end in March 2025. It involves the renovation of Block 11 at...

With the 2024/25 licensing and renewal period fast approaching, the Real Estate Board (REB) is introducing a new Client Facilitation Unit to improve ease of doing business with the entity. Chief Executive Officer, Phillip Chambers, says addition of the Unit in the Applications Department will also help to improve communication between the entity and real estate practitioners. He informed JIS...

A new fire station is to be constructed at Ulster Spring, Trelawny, as part of the Government’s continued investment in the capacity-building of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB). The JFB will also engage two batches of recruits for training, totalling 220 new firefighters. In addition, two ladder units will be procured to fight fires in high-rise buildings. The disclosure was...