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An allocation of $595 million has been made to meet the cost of servicing the deferred financing facility that was utilized to construct arterial roads across the island, representing the amount which falls due for this financial year. The funds have been set aside in the 2004/2005 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. Arterial roads relates to...

Twenty-five ginger farmers from the Riverside Extension Area in St. Catherine, who are participating in the ginger rehabilitation project, were recently presented with free planting material to begin farming their plots. The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) is funding the project, which is valued at some $225,000 and aimed at increasing the production of ginger that is free from rhizome...

A sum of $247.1 million has been allocated to the Primary Education Support Project (PESP), which falls under the Primary Education Programme in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture. The funds, which are earmarked in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House, are focussed on contributing to the improved performance, efficiency and equity of the primary education...

A sum of $5 million has been earmarked for the Policy Advocacy Special Care and Protection Project in the Ministry of Health in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The allocation is for the promotion of policy and legal reforms to address and enforce the rights of all children and to empower implementing agencies to...

A sum of $46.9 million has been allocated to the New Horizons for Primary Schools Project, as outlined in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House. The funds will be used to increase literacy and numeracy in targeted schools, by the provision of quality education. It also gives support to low performing schools, and focuses on poverty alleviation...

A sum of $57 million has been allocated to the Enhancement of Basic Schools Project, which falls under the Early Childhood Programme, in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture. The money, which has been earmarked in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House, is focussed on enabling young children to learn and develop optimally. Among the targets...

A sum of $14 million has been allotted to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) for the Social and Economic Support Programme and general government services. This is contained in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The Possibility (Street Children) Programme, which falls under the Social and Economic Support Programme is to get the...

The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Government on Friday (April 2) that will see the more than 22,000 teachers agreeing to a wage restraint of three per cent for two years. The signing took place at the Ministry of Finance and Planning, two months after Trade Unions representing public sector workers affixed their signatures...

Industry and Tourism Minister, Aloun Ndombet-Assamba has proposed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between consumers and producers that sets out the commitment of both parties to support each other for mutual benefit. Such a MOU, she said was not necessarily seen as a formal document, but a moral agreement based on principles of symbiotic development. "On the one hand, it...

Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry Wilson has clarified misconceptions surrounding the proposed Teacher Performance Evaluation programme. Speaking at the launch of the Pre-Pilot training programme for the evaluation programme on Friday (April 2), at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston, Minister Henry-Wilson said that "Performance measurement is an attempt to come up with some objective basis on...

Farmers from the community of Arcadia, in South St. James, signed a contract on Thursday (April 1) with the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), giving their undertaking to furnish in cash or kind at least 11 per cent of the total project cost of $8.7 million for the rehabilitation of the Arcadia to Mellerswood roadway. Work on that 2.7 kilometres...

Motorists travelling along Mountain View Avenue will soon be getting instant feedback on their speed to see whether or not they are obeying the prescribed speed limit. 3M Limited, an international traffic safety solutions provider, has partnered with the Jamaican Government to undertake a number of initiatives leading up to and on World Health Day, April 7, said Suzette Henriques,...