The Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JUTC, will be operating a reduced service for essential and frontline staff on the weekends of the curfew and during the Easter holiday period. This follows recent adjustments to the curfew hours by the government to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Corporate Communications Manager Cecil Thoms said “the JUTC will provide normal service during 5am...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says that the policy for the allocation of chicken back importation licences has been revamped. The Minister, who was closing the 2021/22 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 23, said that the measure is part of new policy proposals brought to Cabinet by Agriculture and...

Cabinet has given approval for the acquisition of property at 26 Rose Street in Savanna-la-mar, Westmoreland, at a cost of $38,500,000 for the continued operation of the Family Court. Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, made the disclosure during the post-Cabinet press briefing held virtually on March 24. She noted that in 2019, the property owners indicated...

The Melrose Hill bypass in Manchester is to be incorporated into the new alignment of the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000. This component of the project will entail upgrading of the roadway to a four-lane dual carriageway with a speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour (km/hr). The development is being done by the Government of Jamaica,...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett has revealed that the $6 million tourism linkages backyard gardening project, which has been implemented by the Tourism Enhancement Fund, will be expanded across the island to enable even more Jamaicans to benefit from the tourism sector. The project has already paved the way for ten young men and women to receive certification from the...

The National Water Commission (NWC) wishes to advise its customers that all its commercial offices will close at 12 p.m. on Friday, March 26, 2021. This closure is being done based on the recent directive from Prime Minister Andrew Holness to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in Jamaica. Based on the curfew measures, the commercial offices will also be...

The Government is providing $119 million to assist farmers with the transportation of 35,000 tonnes of sugar cane to the Worthy Park Factory in St. Catherine for the 2020/2021 crop year. Making the disclosure during Wednesday’s (March 24) virtual post-Cabinet press briefing, Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, said that support will benefit farmers from Clarendon, St....