Implementation of the Government’s development strategy will be further boosted in the new fiscal year with an additional $13.7 million. The sum is set aside in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The six-year Technical Cooperation Facility V, which commenced in November 2014, is designed to identify, formulate and implement activities financed under the European...

Work is expected to begin in April on the development of a state-of-the-art Closed Harbour Beach Park in Montego Bay, St. James. This follows the allocation of $550 million in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure to undertake the renovation project in the upcoming fiscal year. Over a two-year period, the 16-acre property, also known as ‘Dump-up Beach’, is to be...

The Government will commence the Montego Bay Waterfront Protection Project in the upcoming fiscal year with an allocation of $400 million. Details are given in the 2019/20 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Activities under the project, which are expected to begin in April 2019, involve the rehabilitation of the Montego Bay Groynes. This is to reduce...

Cabinet has approved the award of a $1.29 billion contract to develop the Closed Harbour Beach Park in Montego Bay, St. James. The Urban Development Corporation (UDC), which is spearheading the project, has awarded the contract to M&M Construction Ltd. to construct a state-of-the-art beach park at the property, which is also known as ‘Dump-up Beach’. This was disclosed by...

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC), today (January 29), launched the People’s Choice Exhibition for the Houses of Parliament Architectural Design Competition. The displays, which have been mounted at the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston, will allow the public to view and vote on one of the competition’s five designs from Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The...

Citizens are being encouraged to recycle and reuse solid waste material, where possible. This, according to Western Parks and Markets (WPM) Waste Management Limited’s Regional Operations Manager, Garnet Edmonson, will greatly serve to reduce the volume of refuse generated and discarded. He was speaking at the official opening of the Cambridge garbage holding area in St. James on January 25....

Jamaica’s global services sector (GSS) is poised for further buildout over the next five years under a special programme being initiated by the Government, with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan funding support totalling US$15 million. Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke; and the IDB’s Chief of Operations, Adriana La Valley, on Thursday (January 24), signed...