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The Ministry of Finance and Planning has set aside a sum of $102 billion for the repayment of domestic debt during the 2004/05 fiscal year. This is contained in the Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Of the total, more than $97 billion will go towards the redemption of securities including Local Registered Stock (LRS) issued to...

The Ministry of Finance and Planning has been allocated a sum of $80 million to carry out research and other studies in support of Government's macro economic management policy, and the improvement and modernization of administrative systems. This has been outlined in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. About $203 million has been allocated to...

The Parish Infrastructure Development Programme (PIDP) has been allotted $60 million in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. The scheme aims to effect changes in the legal and institutional framework that will strengthen local government and the financial viability and institutional capacity of the parishes to carry out their responsibilities and the capacity of the...

The Major Rural Water Supply project, which is being implemented by the National Water Commission (NWC), has been allocated a sum of $23 million in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The money will go towards completing engineering designs, ordering materials for projects, purchasing land for treatment plant and reservoir sites, and completing civil works....

A sum of $165 million has been earmarked for the Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Sport's Flood Damage Rehabilitation Project.This provision is contained in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. The project, jointly funded by the Government and the European Union has as its objectives, the rehabilitation of approximately 65.0 kilometres of flood...

Governor-General, His Excellency Sir Howard Cooke said today that the legislative year 2004/05 would "mark the beginning of a new level of partnership" in the country. "We intend to build on the historic agreement between the Government and the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions, under which wage restraint, job security, increased efficiency and improved fiscal management signal a commitment to...

Governor General, His Excellency the Most Honourable Sir Howard Cooke, has said that during the new legislative year, the Government would continue to deepen the process of democracy through increased engagement of citizens at the local level and to further unite citizens in the fight against crime and violence, public indiscipline and disorder. The Governor General, who was delivering the...

The Ministry of Finance and Planning has set aside a sum of $102 billion for the repayment of domestic debt during the 2004/05 fiscal year. This is contained in the Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Of the total, more than $97 billion will go towards the redemption of securities including Local Registered Stock (LRS) issued to...

The Ministry of Finance and Planning has been allocated a sum of $80 million to carry out research and other studies in support of Government's macro economic management policy, and the improvement and modernization of administrative systems. This has been outlined in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. About $203 million has been allocated to...

The Parish Infrastructure Development Programme (PIDP) has been allotted $60 million in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. The scheme aims to effect changes in the legal and institutional framework that will strengthen local government and the financial viability and institutional capacity of the parishes to carry out their responsibilities and the capacity of the...

The Major Rural Water Supply project, which is being implemented by the National Water Commission (NWC), has been allocated a sum of $23 million in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The money will go towards completing engineering designs, ordering materials for projects, purchasing land for treatment plant and reservoir sites, and completing civil works....

A sum of $165 million has been earmarked for the Ministry of Local Government, Community Development and Sport's Flood Damage Rehabilitation Project.This provision is contained in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. The project, jointly funded by the Government and the European Union has as its objectives, the rehabilitation of approximately 65.0 kilometres of flood...