The Government has allocated $14 billion for the continuation of works on the Montego Bay Perimeter Road project. Being implemented by the National Road Operating and Construction Company (NROCC), the project aims to create a safe and reliable alternative route for motorists travelling across and within Montego Bay. This will result in less congestion within the city while opening new...

Construction of the new police divisional headquarters in Westmoreland will continue in the new fiscal year. The Government has budgeted approximately $1 billion to carry out works on the facility located in Llandilo, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland. Details of the project are outlined in the 2025/26 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives recently by Minister of Finance and the...

The Government will be developing intervention systems to support at-risk students at the secondary level and improve student retention in its continued thrust to improve educational outcomes. An early warning system will also be developed to identify at-risk students. These initiatives will be pursued under the Jamaica Education Project (JEP), which has been allocated $752 million in the 2025/26 Estimates...

The Government will be pursuing the development of an electronic Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System, as part of the ongoing public-sector transformation thrust, during fiscal year 2025/26. This was disclosed by Custos Rotulorum for Kingston, Hon. Steadman Fuller, while delivering the Throne Speech during the 2025/26 Ceremonial Opening of Parliament at Gordon House on February 13. Mr. Fuller, who deputised...

The ongoing redevelopment of the St. James-based Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) has been allocated more than $5 billion in the 2025/2026 financial year. Over the next 12 months, the money will be spent to continue civil works associated with Phase one to three of the redevelopment of the institution, taking it to 90 per cent completion. Details of the project...

The recently appointed three-member panel to conduct an administrative review of the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) building approval process will be providing recommendations for reform. The review is intended to improve efficiency and transparency of the building development approval process. At a recent monthly meeting of the KSAMC, at the Corporation’s downtown Kingston offices, Mayor of Kingston,...

Construction of Jamaica’s first Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Academy will begin in fiscal year 2025/26. A Jamaica 60 legacy project, the institution will be erected on the 22 acres of land reserved for social services at the Greater Bernard Lodge Development in St. Catherine. The works will be done under Phase II of the Education System Transformation...