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The Government will continue efforts to protect the island’s ecosystem during the current fiscal year, as just over $55 million has been allocated in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, to fund mitigation of the threat of invasive alien species (IAS) in the insular Caribbean. Spearheaded by the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, through the National Environment and...

The Government has allocated almost $200 million for activities under the flood damage rehabilitation projects, being undertaken by the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing. This is outlined in the 2012/2013 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. They are the River Training Project, for which some $61 million has been allocated; and the Cleaning of Gullies Programme,...

Just over $10 million has been earmarked for the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change to undertake an evaluation of groundwater recharge in the upper Rio Cobre River basin. This is contained in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, currently being reviewed in the House of Representatives. The two-year project, which got underway in April this year, and is...

Beginning this fiscal year, the Government, through the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, will embark on a cadastral mapping and land registration exercise in sections of the country. The project is aimed at assisting persons, particularly rural residents currently occupying lands but not in possession of titles for those properties, to formalise their holdings by providing them...

Just over $4 million has been allocated in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives, to fund integrated management of Yallahs/Hope River Watershed Management Area Project, in the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change. The undertaking, being implemented by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) over the next four years, beginning this September,...

Some $1.2 billion has been set aside for the Tropical Storm Nicole- Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA) Drainage Project, in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project seeks to rehabilitate, restore and protect critical sections of physical infrastructure in the island and reduce the vulnerability and difficulties which have arisen for the entire KMA. Rehabilitation...

The Palisadoes Shoreline and Road Project has been allocated some $1.87 billion in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project seeks to protect the integrity and viability of the investments made by the Government and ensure that its citizens have reliable access; and to make the corridor less susceptible to flooding, while also protecting...

Development of Jamaica’s Water Sector Policy and Rural Master Plan by the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, has been further boosted by the provision of  $17.7 million in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, currently being reviewed in the House of Representatives. The undertaking, which commenced in April 2011, is intended to provide access by some 85 per...

Some $907 million has been set aside in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, being reviewed by the Standing Finance Committee of the House, to continue work on the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change’s Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA) Water Supply Project. The undertaking, being implemented by the National Water Commission (NWC), is aimed at providing an improved water...

An additional $19.5 million has been earmarked in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives, to fund the Rural Water Supply Project in the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change. The project, being implemented by the National Water Commission (NWC), and which has been ongoing since April 2002, aims to increase potable water and...

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is undertaking a pilot project on the separation of plastic containers in three communities in the Corporate Area. The initiative got underway on May 1 in Havendale, Karachi and Whitfield Town in Kingston and over the next six months, residents will be encouraged to separate plastic containers from their regular household waste. The...

The Government plans to spend $50 million this fiscal year on the continuation of the local government reform process. As set out in the Estimates of Expenditure for 2012/2013 tabled in the House of Representatives on May 10, the provision is to go towards developing a viable and vibrant system of local government administration to meet the needs of citizens...