A sum of $489 million has been allocated for the Montego Bay Waterfront Protection Project in the new fiscal year. Details are given in the 2020/21 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. A key activity under the project involves the rehabilitation of the Montego Bay Groynes. This is to reduce the loss of beachfront acreage to coastal...

Some $451.2 million has been budgeted to continue work under phase two of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR II) during the next fiscal year. The sum is set aside in the 2020/21 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Being implemented by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, the project aims to improve the...

The Government will be spending more than $144 million for environmental improvement to the Negril area, as outlined in the 2020/2021 Budget, now before the House of Representatives. Objectives of the Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (IWEco Project) are to restore historical hydrological and other physical processes in the Negril Great Morass; enhance...

A sum of $350 million has been allotted under the Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP) for the continued improvement of the island’s road network. The money has been provided in the 2020/21 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Up to December 2019 under the project, approximately 416km of the 430km of prioritised roads targeted have been rehabilitated,...

The Government will continue rehabilitation of several rural roads this fiscal year with an allocation of $400 million. The sum is provided for in the 2020/21 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which is being undertaken by the National Works Agency (NWA), seeks to facilitate socio-economic development and integration of three parishes – Trelawny, Clarendon...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has been allocated an additional $60 million to further advance work during the upcoming fiscal year, to establish a National Policy and Plan of Action on International Migration and Development. This provision is contained in the 2020/21 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project aims to build the capacities of...

A total of 378 Jamaicans are to benefit from remedial education under phase three of the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) in the new financial year. The undertaking forms part of the targets to be carried out under the CSJP, Phase Three, which aims to improve governance and behavioural changes focused on conflict resolution, social inclusion and safety, and...

The Government has set aside $137 million to strengthen socio-economic projects in the Yallahs and Hope River areas. Details are provided in the 2020/2021 Budget, now before the House of Representatives. The objective of the project, called the Integrated Management of the Yallahs/Hope River Watershed Management Area, is to reduce pressure on natural resources in the Yallahs and Hope River...