Rehabilitation works at the Hope Valley Experimental and August Town Primary schools in St. Andrew are to be completed in the upcoming fiscal year under the Government’s Integrated Community Development Project II. The project, which has been allocated $796.2 million in the 2022/23 Estimates of Expenditure, seeks to enhance access to basic urban infrastructure and services and contribute towards increased...

Agriculture and community tourism enterprises are to benefit from capacity-building exercises and the provision of seedlings and chemicals under the Rural Economic Development Initiative II, in the new fiscal year. An allotment of $677.45 million has been provided in the 2022/23 Estimates of Expenditure to facilitate these and other interventions under the project, which seeks to enhance access to markets...

Construction of three fire stations across the island is to be completed during the new financial year. These are the Montego Bay Fire Station in St. James, the Port Maria Fire Station in St. Mary, and the Yallahs Fire Station in St. Thomas. A sum of $673.54 million has been allocated under the Jamaica Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project to complete...

Construction of the new Westmoreland police divisional headquarters is slated to commence in the 2022/23 financial year. A sum of $700 million has been allocated in the 2022/23 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. For the upcoming fiscal year, it is anticipated that 50 per cent of construction activities will be completed. The project, which is being...

The ability of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) to monitor and safeguard the country’s borders will be strengthened in the new financial year. The Government has allocated $2.7 billion in the 2022/23 Estimates of Expenditure to facilitate the procurement of radar, marine offshore patrol vessels, cameras, software, hardware, and other equipment. This will be done under the Purchase and Overhaul...

The Government has earmarked $2.2 billion to improve cybersecurity initiatives and purchase telecommunications equipment for the security forces. Details of the provision are outlined in the 2022/23 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, in the House of Representatives, recently. The project seeks to facilitate the security force’s enhanced use...

Approximately $83 million has been allocated to continue work on the construction of the Western Children and Adolescent Hospital in Montego Bay, St. James, during the new financial year. Details are outlined in the 2022/2023 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project is aimed at building a 220-bed facility on the compound of the Cornwall Regional...