Twelve children at the Bustamante Hospital for Children have benefited from minimally invasive life-saving cardiac procedures, at the facility’s state-of-the-art Cardiac Centre. The one-week cardiac catheterisation mission, which took place from January 20 to 24, was sponsored by the United Kingdom-based charity, Chain of Hope. In an interview with JIS News, Paediatric Cardiologist at the hospital, Dr. Sharonne Forrester, explained...

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) will continue pre-assessment studies during the 2020/21 fiscal year to identify a site to establish Jamaica’s Third City. Some $500 million has been earmarked in the 2020/21 Estimates of Expenditure for the project, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on February 11. It is titled: ‘Third City Planning –Scoping Studies’. The pre-assessment studies...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says the Government has now identified a quarantine facility in the west, and is looking at other facilities elsewhere, in light of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which is affecting some countries worldwide. This was noted by the Minister today (February 18) during a tour of St Joseph’s Hospital in St....

The National Works Agency (NWA) is to repair several roadways across western parishes as part of the Hot Mix Patching Programme. The project, which will be done at a cost of $160 million, and targets approximately 49,000 square metres of roadway, is set to commence before the end of this month. Community Relations Officer in the western office of the...

Community Relations Officer at the western office of the National Works Agency (NWA), Janel Ricketts, says the first phase of the Fairfield Bridge to Tucker rehabilitation project, in St. James, is in the final stages of completion. The project commenced in October 2019 and is being done at a cost of $74.1 million. It represents the first phase of a...

 

The Government has set aside $276.2 million to continue key activities under the Jamaica Integrated Community Development Project, in the 2020/2021 fiscal year. The initiative 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. Activities to be undertaken during the period include providing...