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Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, opens the 2023/24 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday (March 7).
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, opens the 2023/24 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday (March 7).

JUTC to Get 200 New Buses Over the Next Three Years

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company’s (JUTC) fleet of buses will be upgraded, with the addition of 200 electric vehicles over the next three years. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, said purchase of the...
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, uses abacuses to demonstrate his point, while delivering the opening presentation in the 2023/24 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 7) .
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, uses abacuses to demonstrate his point, while delivering the opening presentation in the 2023/24 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 7) .

Eight Years of No New Taxes
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, opens the 2023/24 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 7.
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, opens the 2023/24 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 7.

UK-Based Entity to Provide Forensic Audit Services for SSL Probe
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, opens the Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 7).
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, opens the Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 7).

SLB Will No Longer Require Guarantors for PATH Applicants
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, opens the Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 7).
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, opens the Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 7).

$1-Billion Fund for Film and TV Production

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Budget 2023/2024Finance & Public Service

Gov’t to Make Public-Sector Contract Workers Permanent Employees

Many contract workers now employed in the public sector will be made permanent employees. Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, made the disclosure as he opened the 2023/24 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 7. He said that the objective is to address the longstanding abuse of fixed-term contracts in Government....
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A $2.3-billion allocation has been made to continue work on the Southern Plains Agricultural Development Project in the upcoming fiscal year. The sum has been budgeted in the 2023/24 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, recently. The project, which began in December 2019, aims to provide access to irrigation water on fallow sugar lands, to increase agricultural productivity through the modernisation of the agricultural sector. It includes construction of wells and canal network and the development of the associated agricultural infrastructure in the arable areas of Amity Hall and Bridge Pen in St. Catherine and Parnassus in Clarendon. Up to December 2022, the drilling of three wells and yield test were completed in Parnassus, and abstraction licences were approved by the Water Resources Authority. Other physical achievements of the project include the completion of capacity-building for climate resilience and crop modelling, the design of agricultural buildings, the irrigation network design, the irrigation and road/draining works, and a gender-responsive training manual for farmer groups. For fiscal year 2023/24, anticipated physical targets of the project are to commence the construction of agricultural buildings and to complete the construction of irrigation network and roads/drainage infrastructure, as well as to complete the rehabilitation of Hartlands canal. This is in addition to the re-tender for contract to construct pump houses and reservoir at Amity Hall/Bridge Pen and the acquisition of GIS equipment for the NIC. (more) Southern Plains…2 The project is being implemented by the Ministry Agriculture and Fisheries, with co-funding from the Government of Jamaica and the Caribbean Development Bank. It is slated to end in December 2024. An additional $361.7 million has been earmarked to undertake activities in fiscal year 2024/25, if necessary.
Budget 2023/2024Finance & Public Service

Finance Minister Opens Budget Debate Today

The 2023/24 Budget Debate gets under way in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 7), with the opening presentation by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke. He is expected to outline how the Government’s trillion-dollar expenditure for the upcoming fiscal year will be funded. The funds are allocated across the main expenditure categories...
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Budget 2023/2024EducationFinance & Public Service

$305 Million Budgeted for Education Transformation Programme

A sum of $305 million has been allocated for the implementation of the Ministry of Education and Youth’s Education Transformation Programme in the upcoming fiscal year. The sum is contained in the 2023/24 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project’s main objective is to provide additional classrooms to alleviate the shift system and overcrowding in secondary...
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Budget 2023/2024EnergyFinance & Public ServiceParliament

$967.1M Budgeted to Continue Govt’s Energy Management and Efficiency Programme

Implementation of the Government’s energy management and efficiency programme will continue during the new fiscal year with a $967.17 million allocation. The sum is contained in the 2023/24 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, being spearheaded by the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology (MSET), aims to drive energy management and efficiency in government facilities...
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Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, tables the Estimates of Expenditure in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (February 14).
Budget 2023/2024Finance & Public ServiceNational Security

$315M Budgeted to Construct St. Catherine North Police Divisional Headquarters

Approximately $315 million will be spent by the Government during the upcoming fiscal year to commence constructing the St. Catherine North Police Divisional Headquarters. The provision is set aside in the 2023/24 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, on February 14. The...
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Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, tables the Estimates of Expenditure in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (February 14).
Budget 2023/2024Finance & Public ServiceParliament

$149.8-Million Budgetary Provision for Strategic Public-Sector Transformation

Work under the Strategic Public Sector Transformation Project in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service will continue during the upcoming fiscal year with a $149.8-million budgetary provision. This sum is contained in the 2023/24 Estimates of Expenditure, which were tabled in the House of Representatives by Portfolio Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, on Tuesday (February 14). The...
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