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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness makes his contribution to the 2020/21 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Thursday (March 19).
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness makes his contribution to the 2020/21 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Thursday (March 19).

Special Grants For Poor And Vulnerable Persons

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has announced that special grants will be disbursed to poor and vulnerable persons hard hit by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. “The full details of the programme are being finalised and will be announced...
Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, making his contribution to the 2020/21 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 19.
Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, making his contribution to the 2020/21 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 19.

DBJ Provides Additional $10 Billion For Onlending
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, emphasises a point while making his contribution to the 2020/21 Budget Debate, in the House of Representatives, on Thursday (March 19).
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, emphasises a point while making his contribution to the 2020/21 Budget Debate, in the House of Representatives, on Thursday (March 19).

Government Reduces Interest Rates On All New And Existing Loans
Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, making his contribution to the 2020/21 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 19.
Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, making his contribution to the 2020/21 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 19.

$1.2 Billion Budgeted For Jamaica Eye
National Security Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (left, foreground), and Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (right), observe operations inside the Police Emergency Control Centre at the Office of the Police Commissioner in Kingston, during a tour of the facility on Wednesday (March 18). Briefing them is Sub-officer in charge of the Centre, Woman Inspector Vanessa Clarke.
National Security Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (left, foreground), and Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda (right), observe operations inside the Police Emergency Control Centre at the Office of the Police Commissioner in Kingston, during a tour of the facility on Wednesday (March 18). Briefing them is Sub-officer in charge of the Centre, Woman Inspector Vanessa Clarke.

Technology Platform Of JCF Expanded

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Jamaica House Fellowship Programme Awardees To Be Placed In Public Sector By May

The second cohort of awardees under the Jamaica House Fellowship Programme will be selected and placed within the public sector by May. The initiative, launched by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness in 2016, is geared at recruiting and exposing bright, young talent to public administration, in the hope that they will make public service their first career choice....
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Special Task Force To Address Water, Sanitation

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says a Special Inter-Ministerial Task Force has been established to address water and sanitation as the country combats the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz; and Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, will lead the Task Force’s...
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MPs To Get $126 Million For COVID-19 Interventions

The Government will be allocating $126 million from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to Members of Parliament (MP) for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)-related interventions. Each MP will receive $2 million. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the announcement during his 2020/21 Budget Debate presentation in the House of Representatives on Thursday (March 19), under the theme ‘Towards a Decade...
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Bureau Of Standards Targeting MSMEs

The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) will be providing targeted support to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), during the new fiscal year, which begins April 1. Emphasis will be placed on the priority sectors of manufacturing and agriculture/agribusiness as well as the emerging industries of medical cannabis, hemp and bamboo. As stated in the 2020/21 Jamaica Public Bodies Estimates...
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Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, addresses the House of Representatives on March 17.
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Third Supplementary Estimates To Be Tabled March 24

A third Supplementary Estimates for the 2019/20 fiscal year will be tabled in the House of Representatives on March 24, to reflect the revised budgetary provision for the Government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) response. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, said the Estimates will also redirect unused resources to the Contingency Fund to be used in...
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Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, speaks in the House of Representatives on March 17.
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$10 Billion To Offset Impact Of COVID-19

The Government has increased the contingency provisions within the Budget to offset the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) to $10 billion. Making the announcement in the House of Representatives today (March 17), Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, said the banking sector has agreed to forgo the reduction in asset tax announced recently for...
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