The Government has allotted $200 million to complete activities under the Jamaica Integrated Community Development Project, during the upcoming fiscal year. The project seeks to enhance access to basic urban infrastructure and services, and support increased community safety in selected economically vulnerable and socially volatile inner-city communities of Jamaica. The money has been provided in the 2021/22 Estimates of Expenditure,...

Young people in Trench Town and Tivoli Gardens in Kingston are being empowered to participate in the development of their communities, under the Inter-Agency Network Youth Development Programme (IANYDP). The initiative, which was officially launched during a virtual ceremony on Thursday (February 4), is a collaborative effort between the Planning Institute of Jamaica Community Renewal Programme (PIOJ/CRP) and the Social...

Residents in and around Stony Hill in St. Andrew now have a resource centre, financed by the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) at a cost of $5.1 million. Speaking at the official opening of the Rocky Valley Resource Room, Wednesday (February 3), Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, said he is joyful with the establishment of the centre, because children...

More than 120,000 persons have benefited from interventions implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), under its Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) programme, now in its ninth cycle. The disclosure was made by Managing Director of JSIF, Omar Sweeney, at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’, held at the agency’s headquarters Monday (February 1). “Since BNTF Five in...

Fourteen entrepreneurs from Treadlight, in Clarendon, were presented with equipment valued at $2.2 million, on January 29, through the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP-II), of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). To date, three St. James communities and two from Kingston have received similar grants under the project, which is expected to reach many other communities across the island. In...

 

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the killing of 4 homeless men and the severe wounding of two others, represent a new kind of savagery especially given what appears to be the serial nature of the attacks which call for a new kind of policing. He said, “We will spare no effort in investigating the heinous and barbaric murders of these...