The Government has allotted $200 million to complete activities under the Jamaica Integrated Community Development Project, during the upcoming fiscal year. The project seeks to enhance access to basic urban infrastructure and services, and support increased community safety in selected economically vulnerable and socially volatile inner-city communities of Jamaica. The money has been provided in the 2021/22 Estimates of Expenditure,...

A Child Therapeutic Centre is to be constructed for the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) during the upcoming fiscal year. The facility will offer psychological support to children who have undergone severe emotional trauma and are in need of therapeutic intervention. A sum of $684.4 million has been allotted to undertake this and other activities under the Basic...

Rehabilitation works are to commence at the Hope Valley Experimental School and August Town School in the upcoming financial year. An allotment of $726.2 million has been set aside in the 2021/22 Estimates of Expenditure to carry out these and other activities under the Integrated Community Development Project II. The project is designed to enhance access to basic urban infrastructure...

NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL   Confirmed Cases 193 22,019   SEX CLASSIFICATION       Males 93 9,770   Females 97 12,243   Under Investigation 3 6   AGE RANGE 19 days to 89 years 1 day to 104 years           PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES       Clarendon 1 1,265   Hanover 10...

The Government is quickly moving to provide additional bed space for the increasing number of patients with coronavirus (COVID-19) who require hospitalisation. This was disclosed by Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, who said this has become necessary, especially given that, in the last week, the country added 2,818 new COVID-19 cases and saw hospitalisations move...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is reporting that Construction and Mining and Quarrying grew by an estimated 6.2 per cent and six per cent, respectively, for the October to December 2020 quarter. They were the only subsectors recording growth in the goods producing industry, which PIOJ Director General, Dr. Wayne Henry, said declined by an estimated 0.6 per cent....

Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wayne Henry, says there are “positive signs” regarding the PIOJ’s projection for the country to record economic growth of between four to six per cent during the 2021/22 fiscal year. Speaking during the PIOJ’s digital quarterly briefing on Tuesday (February 23), Dr. Henry said this is in the wake of...