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In a continued bid to reform the public sector, $272 million has been set aside for the Public Sector Modernisation Programme II in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Being implemented by the Office of the Cabinet with funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Government of Jamaica, the project seeks to enable...

The Government has earmarked $2.2 million to continue work on the March Pen Road community centre in Spanish Town for use by residents under the Community Crime Prevention Programme. As set out in the 2012-2013 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, the project will see the completion of renovation and refurbishing works on the computer laboratory at...

The Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) is set to receive a cash injection of $1.07 billion to carry out its work this fiscal year. This is set out in the 2012/2013 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. With funding support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Department for International Development (DFID), the project aims...

A sum of $6 million has been earmarked in the 2012-2013 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, for the Jamaica National Crime Victimisation Survey. The project is being implemented by the Ministry of National Security, with support funding from the United Kingdom Department of International Development (DFID). Objectives under the programme, which is scheduled to run from...

Activities under the Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Local Offenders and Deported Persons programme should be significantly enhanced this year, through a $81.2 million provision in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. With support funding from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the project is intended to reduce the rate of re-offending amongst local...

Construction on the Foga Road Basic School in Clarendon and a teacher resource centre for the parish is expected to be completed this fiscal year. The work will be carried out under the Enhancement of Basic Schools Project, for which a sum of $137.8 million has been set aside in the 2012/2013 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of...

The Government is to continue work on the development of a National Spatial Plan for the country this year, following the allocation of an additional $14 million in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. The plan, work on which commenced in January 2010, is being tailored to provide the strategic spatial framework to guide urban...

The Government has set aside some $4.5 billion for activities under three critical projects being undertaken by the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing. This is outlined in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. They are the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP), for which some $1 billion has been allocated; Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP),...

Jamaica will play a key role in charting the way forward for the global tourism industry this week, when Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, the Hon. Dr. Wykeham McNeill attends three key meetings, which are strategic to the strengthening of the tourism sector within global economies. Being hosted by Mexico, the meetings include the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of Tourism (T20),...

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Jamaica, Robert Fuderich, has made an appeal for the region to "break the silence" surrounding child abuse to end the scourge, which is affecting a significant number of children. He informed that an estimated six million children in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer severe abuse, including abandonment, and 80,000 children die each...

Beginning this fiscal year, the Government, through the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, will embark on a cadastral mapping and land registration exercise in sections of the country. The project is aimed at assisting persons, particularly rural residents currently occupying lands but not in possession of titles for those properties, to formalise their holdings by providing them...

A sum of $21 million has been set aside for the Bogue Road Rehabilitation Project in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing. This has been outlined in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which is being financed by the Government of Jamaica and the OPEC Fund for International Development,  seeks to enhance...