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The Government has allotted another $168 million in 2019/2020 to continue carrying out activities related to the relocation of the offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade to downtown Kingston. This is outlined in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The money will be used to complete the supply and installation of...

A total of $161 million is earmarked to continue work by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service next fiscal year to construct and renovate several tax offices islandwide. The sum is contained in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which commenced in September 2018, targets construction of tax offices in Cross...

The Government has allocated $8.03 billion to the Jamaica Social Protection Strategy Programme in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The programme aims to support consumption, protect and promote the human capital accumulation of the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) beneficiaries. It also seeks to strengthen the overall capacity of the Ministry...

The Government will spend some $20 million on a Solar Energy Project for the 2019/2020 fiscal year. Details about the project are provided in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The anticipated targets for the 2019/20 fiscal year include retrofitting, upgrading and repairing of the structure of school roofs; the payment of fees to the...

Work to further build out phase two of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR II) will continue this year with a $379-million budgetary allocation. This is contained in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which commenced in April 2013 and initially ran for 30 months, aims to improve the quality and use...

The Government will be spending $1.33 billion to implement the National Identification System (NIDS) in the 2019/2020 fiscal year. The allocation has been set aside in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The money will be used to commence piloting of NIDS with public-sector employees and continue the recruitment of key NIDS staff for the...

The Government has allocated $235 million in 2019/2020 to complete design work on the Western Children Adolescent Hospital in Montego Bay, St. James. The details are contained in the 2019/2020 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The figure will also fund a number of essentials for the 220-bed facility. Other works will include site preparation, setting up...

Construction of the Montego Bay, Yallahs and Port Maria fire stations are to commence in the 2019/2020 fiscal year. This will be facilitated under the Jamaica Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project, for which $1.13 billion has been allocated in the 2019/2020 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House. The money will also be used to commence coastal revetment works at Port...

The Government will be spending $1.2 billion to construct and renovate police stations and other buildings. The project, entitled ‘Construction and Improvement of Police Buildings’, is being implemented by the Ministry of National Security. As outlined in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, the money will go towards the construction and expansion of the Caribbean...

The Education Transformation Programme has received funding of $371.5 million from the Government for the fiscal year 2019/20. Details about the project are provided in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The targets for the 2019/20 fiscal year include the construction of additional classrooms at Papine High, Norman Manley High and Mount St. Joseph High...

The Government will be spending $7.3 billion in the new fiscal year to facilitate the acquisition of aircraft and equipment for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). This is outlined in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The Estimates were tabled in the House of Representatives on February 14 by Minister of Finance and the Public...

The Government has set aside $2.12 billion to continue carrying out key activities under the Jamaica Integrated Community Development Project in the 2019/2020 fiscal year. The project, which is being implemented by Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), aims to enhance access to basic urban infrastructure and services, and support increased community safety in selected economically vulnerable and socially volatile inner-city...