Jamaica’s reconstruction strategy, being deployed across infrastructure, housing, digitalisation, logistics, agriculture and energy, will create thousands of jobs, improve national productivity and protect fiscal sustainability. Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the declaration in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (December 2), where he provided details about the comprehensive financial package of up to US$6.7 billion over...

Jamaica is set to benefit from a comprehensive package of up to US$6.7 billion over three years, designed to strengthen recovery and reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. The funds will be facilitated through CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, the International Monetary...

 

The Ministry of Local Government and Community Development has identified lands owned by the Trelawny Municipal Corporation for the construction of a new administrative building, following the devastation of the existing structure during Hurricane Melissa. “They are now to proceed to start to do the necessary works in terms of the new location,” said Portfolio Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie. He...

Mayor of Black River and Chairman of the St. Elizabeth Municipal Corporation, Councillor Richard Solomon, says that restoring access to communities and essential services is being prioritised as relief and recovery efforts continue across the parish. “Some of the activities that we would have been doing up to now is to ensure that we have access to all our major...

The Government will be reviewing and potentially overhauling the national emergency shelter system, with the aim of improving the standard of buildings designated as prescribed shelters during natural disasters. Speaking during Wednesday’s (November 19) press briefing on Hurricane Melissa recovery at Jamaica House, Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, emphasised that “there is no question in my mind...

The Social Development Commission (SDC) has launched a Temporary Accommodations Needs Assessment Survey across the six parishes severely affected by the passage of Hurricane Melissa. The survey, commissioned by the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development has three primary objectives – to provide an evidence-based report on the number of displaced families and individuals, to determine how many of...