The Ministry of Finance and Planning will continue implementation of the Government’s Fiscal Administration Modernization Programme. This will be done with the $1.4 billion allocated in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before Parliament. The project, which commenced in December 2011, seeks to support the Government in achieving a sustainable fiscal position by strengthening the Finance Ministry’s institutional capacity to...

Phase two of the Pilot Programme for Climate Change (PPCR II) continues this year with an $18.7 million allocation, which is outlined in the 2015/ Estimates of Expenditure, now before Parliament. The project, being implemented by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), aims to: enable effective planning and design of adaptation initiatives through access to climate change scenarios specific to...

The country’s effort to develop a robust national greenhouse gas inventory is to be strengthened with the allocation of $25 million in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which is being funded by the United States Agency for International Development, is slated to commence in April 2015. Anticipated targets under the initiative dubbed,...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has been allocated an additional $10 million in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before Parliament, to continue implementation of a project designed to assist persons understand the social effects of the financial crisis. The project, which commenced in June 2010, is intended to strengthen the capacity and generate knowledge of persons that would...

Over six thousand residents in surrounding communities of Ewarton and Mount Rosser, St. Catherine, now have a reliable supply of potable water from a system developed at a cost of $460 million by the National Water Commission (NWC). Speaking at the official commissioning of the system on Friday (February 28), Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert...

The city of Montego Bay in St. James, will continue to benefit from the interventions of the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, for which a further $15 million has been allotted in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure. The project seeks to contribute to the implementation of Montego Bay’s urban sustainability Action Plan, in which the general goal is to address...

Key disaster mitigation activities will continue this year under the Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction project, following a further allotment of $127.9 million. The funds have been provided for in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. Being implemented by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), the project seeks to reduce the risk of...

Repairs to the roadway leading to the Riverton City Landfill, will continue in the new fiscal year, with an allotment of $30 million in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure. The project seeks to improve the utilisation of the Riverton Landfill and reduce the down-time and operating costs of garbage trucks. Rehabilitation of the two kilometres of roadway will include: preparation...