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A sum of $450 million has been allocated in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before Parliament, to continue implementation of the Jamaica Foundations for Competitiveness and Growth project. The allocation represents a $410 million increase for the project, which started in September 2014, and aims to strengthen the enabling environment for private sector competitiveness to help boost productivity and...

A project, which aims to provide Jamaicans with increased access to information and communications technology (ICT) services, has received an allotment of $123 million in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before Parliament. The Technology to Empower Individuals and Communities for Development Project also aims to provide ICT and other training programmes to promote personal, organisational and national development; and provide...

The Ministry of Finance and Planning will continue work this year to transform its operations into a high performing Centre of Excellence with an allocation of just over $24 million, set aside in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before Parliament. The project, which commenced in August 2014, seeks to effect the transformation through adoption of a new organisational structure...

A sum of $880 million has been allocated to the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) III to carry out crime and violence prevention programmes in targeted communities. The money allocated for the new fiscal year will see $15 million going towards parenting education; $20 million for counselling interventions; $30 million for violence interruption services; $77 million for social marketing;...

A sum of $11.2 million has been allocated for the hydro chlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) Phase out Management Plan Implementation Project, in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure. The proposed budget is now before the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives. The project seeks to freeze importation of HCFCs at 2009 and 2010 average import levels (baseline consumption) and reduce baseline...

The Ministry of Finance and Planning will continue implementation of the Government’s Fiscal Administration Modernization Programme. This will be done with the $1.4 billion allocated in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before Parliament. The project, which commenced in December 2011, seeks to support the Government in achieving a sustainable fiscal position by strengthening the Finance Ministry’s institutional capacity to...

Phase two of the Pilot Programme for Climate Change (PPCR II) continues this year with an $18.7 million allocation, which is outlined in the 2015/ Estimates of Expenditure, now before Parliament. The project, being implemented by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), aims to: enable effective planning and design of adaptation initiatives through access to climate change scenarios specific to...

The country’s effort to develop a robust national greenhouse gas inventory is to be strengthened with the allocation of $25 million in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which is being funded by the United States Agency for International Development, is slated to commence in April 2015. Anticipated targets under the initiative dubbed,...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has been allocated an additional $10 million in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before Parliament, to continue implementation of a project designed to assist persons understand the social effects of the financial crisis. The project, which commenced in June 2010, is intended to strengthen the capacity and generate knowledge of persons that would...

Employees in the tourism industry are to benefit from the construction of some 100 two bedroom units in Belle Air III, St. Ann, under the Jamaica Economical Housing Project, this year. To this end, Government has allocated just over $1 billion in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, which will go before the Standing Finance Committee of Parliament tomorrow (March 3)....

The Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP) has received an allocation of $3.34 billion in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before Parliament. The project seeks to continue improvement of the island’s road network in order to stimulate economic development and enhance the welfare of Jamaica’s citizens. Achievements to date, include: completion of an engineering feasibility study; signing of a conditional...

The Government is to spend $25 million this year on the development of an irrigation system for the Trelawny Stadium field. The money has been set aside in the 2015/16 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Being implemented by Independence Park Limited, through funding from the Consolidated Fund, the project aims to develop and install a sustainable...