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Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (standing, centre) witnesses the contract signing for the East Palms Housing Development during a ground-breaking ceremony on East Avenue in Kingston Central on Wednesday (June 4). Participating are (from left, seated) Chair, New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) Oversight Committee, Judith Robb Walters; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Arlene Williams; Operations Director, S&G Road Surfacing Materials Limited, Anthony J. Sampson, and Kingston Central Member of Parliament, Donovan Williams. The new development will replace the previous dwelling, which was destroyed by fire in July 2021, leaving a 13-member family homeless ever since.
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (standing, centre) witnesses the contract signing for the East Palms Housing Development during a ground-breaking ceremony on East Avenue in Kingston Central on Wednesday (June 4). Participating are (from left, seated) Chair, New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) Oversight Committee, Judith Robb Walters; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Arlene Williams; Operations Director, S&G Road Surfacing Materials Limited, Anthony J. Sampson, and Kingston Central Member of Parliament, Donovan Williams. The new development will replace the previous dwelling, which was destroyed by fire in July 2021, leaving a 13-member family homeless ever since.
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A family of 13, displaced after a fire destroyed their 12-bedroom home on East Avenue in Kingston Central in July 2021, is set to receive a new multi-family residence –East Palms Housing Development – within six months. This is being provided under the Government’s New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) at a cost of $58.86 million. Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, headed the officials participating in contract signing and ground-breaking ceremony at the East Avenue project site on Wednesday (June 4). The Palmers...
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Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), greets architect of the East Palms Housing Development in Kingston Central, Roni McLaren, during Wednesday’s (June 4) ground-breaking ceremony on East Avenue in Kingston Central. Others (from second left) are Member of Parliament, Kingston Central, Donovan Williams, and project beneficiary, representing the Palmer family, Doreen Palmer. The new development will replace the previous dwelling, which was destroyed by fire in July 2021, leaving a 13-member family homeless ever since.
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), greets architect of the East Palms Housing Development in Kingston Central, Roni McLaren, during Wednesday’s (June 4) ground-breaking ceremony on East Avenue in Kingston Central. Others (from second left) are Member of Parliament, Kingston Central, Donovan Williams, and project beneficiary, representing the Palmer family, Doreen Palmer. The new development will replace the previous dwelling, which was destroyed by fire in July 2021, leaving a 13-member family homeless ever since.

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Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, assists with construction activities on the caretaker's cottage at the Mason River Environmental and Research Park in Clarendon during Labour Day (May 23) activities. Labour Day 2025 was celebrated under the theme 'Protect the Environment: Our Land, Our Duty, Our Future'. The slogan is 'Jamaica Nice, Protect Wi Paradise'.
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Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon Andrew Holness, interacts with little Zahira Mitchell, who is the granddaughter of New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) beneficiary, Elaine Bennett (left). Sharing the moment is Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Arlene Williams. The occasion was the handover of keys to Miss Bennett’s new home in Lloyd’s District, St. Thomas, on Thursday (May 15).
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Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (second left), in discussion with Cybersecurity Analyst, Guardsman Group of Companies, Jacqueline Comrie (seated), during a tour of the company’s security operations centre at 14-16 Balmoral Avenue in Kingston, following the official opening on Wednesday (May 14). Listening (from left) are Executive Chairman, Guardsman Group, Kenneth Benjamin, and Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte.
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