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Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett.

$31 Million Set Aside In Tourism Budget For Creative And Cultural Industries

A sum of $31 million has been earmarked in the 2022/2023 tourism budget to support Jamaica’s creative and cultural industries. Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, made the disclosure while addressing the premiere of the film ‘Link Up’ at the...

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green (right), addressing Tuesday’s (March 1) meeting of the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives at Gordon House. At left is Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke.

Issuing Of NIDS ID Cards To Be Piloted In Corporate Area

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, speaks during Tuesday’s (March 1) meeting of the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, whose members are deliberating the 2022/23 Estimates of Expenditure.

No Visible Impact Of Conflict On Tourism – Bartlett

COVID-19 Clinical Management Summary for Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, (FILE)

Full Resumption Of Face-To-Face Classes March 7

State Minister in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Dr. the Hon. Norman Dunn.

4 years ago Industry

JBDC Establishing Essential Oil Incubator

The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) is establishing an essential oils incubator that will provide manufacturing capacity for clients as well as further position the country to tap into the lucrative global industry. The development forms part of a project that aims to, among other things, establish an organised and viable essential oils industry. In welcoming the initiative, Minister of...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development will be undertaking electrification and water supply projects in Chamber’s Pen, Hanover.
“In another couple of weeks, I will be signing the contract for [electrical] installation of 150 households in Chamber’s Pen and another 150 [communities] between the Corporate Area and Portland,” portfolio Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, told JIS News.
The installation works will be undertaken as part of the Ministry’s Rural Electrification Programme (REP) being spearheaded by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF).
The programme aims to extend electricity to rural Jamaica as part of measures to stimulate economic and social activity, and improve the quality of life in rural communities.
So far, several rural areas across the island have been benefiting from the project.
Chamber’s Pen will also be the focus of a major water supply project.
“An extensive amount of work [will be done] to bring water to the community… and that will be done by Rural Water Supply Limited (RWSL),” Minister McKenzie said, while addressing a water supply commissioning ceremony in Top Aberdeen in St. Elizabeth, recently.
Chamber’s Pen is the pilot community under the Ministry’s $650-million Rural Development Programme.
The programme, which will create temporary and permanent employment opportunities across the country, includes the installation of water, electricity, Internet access, roads, sidewalks, community parks and indigent housing.
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4 years ago Local Government

Electrification And Water Supply Projects For Chamber’s Pen

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development will be undertaking electrification and water supply projects in Chamber’s Pen, Hanover. “In another couple of weeks, I will be signing the contract for [electrical] installation of 150 households in Chamber’s Pen and another 150 [communities] between the Corporate Area and Portland,” portfolio Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, told JIS News. The installation...

Newly appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne.

4 years ago National Security and Peace

Private Security Industry Legislation To Be Reviewed And Amended

The Ministry of National Security is moving to review and amend the legislation governing the private security industry in Jamaica. Speaking with JIS News, State Minister in the Ministry, Zavia Mayne, said the review of the Private Security Regulation Authority (PSRA) Act, which was passed in 1992, is necessary to bring clarity to the issues concerning security guards. “One of...

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Karl Samuda.

4 years ago Labour

Labour Ministry’s Website Out of Service

The Ministry of Labour & Social Security is advising the public that its Website is currently out of service. The Management Information System Unit is working assiduously to have the problem resolved in the shortest possible time. The Ministry apologies for the inconveniences caused.

(FILE) Work in progress along a section of the Mandela Highway. This forms part of the US$64-million Mandela Highway Realignment and Reconstruction Project, which involves road construction works comprising extensive soft soil treatment, construction of a 3.5 km six-lane corridor, with a two-lane overpass bridge, two new three-lane bridges at Fresh River, a two-lane service road adjacent to the main roadway to facilitate the development of Caymanas Estate and upgrading of the Six Miles Interchange.

4 years ago Transport

NROCC To Continue Maintaining Tolled Highways

The National Road Operating and Constructing Company Limited (NROCC) will continue to pursue the monitoring of the operations and maintenance of the completed toll roads, while simultaneously seeking to expand the network of tolled highways in Jamaica. This is contained in the Public Bodies Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the year ending March 2023. Consequently, for the 2022/23 fiscal...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (fifth left), breaks ground for a new police station at Stony Hill in St. Andrew, on February 25. Others participating (from left) are Member of Parliament for St. Andrew West Rural, Hon. Juliet Cuthbert Flynn; Councillor for the Stony Hill Division, Tasha Schwapp; Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Hon. Zavia Mayne; Principal, Stony Hill Technical High School, Eric Smith; Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang; Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson and Senior General Manager, National Housing Trust (NHT), Donald Moore.

4 years ago National Security and Peace

New Police Station For Stony Hill

A new police station will be constructed at Stony Hill, St. Andrew, as part of the Government’s efforts to modernise and upgrade the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, who broke ground for the station on February 24, said its construction is a “strategic direction” of the Government’s crime-fighting efforts. “You will notice that we...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness speaking at the recent ground-breaking ceremony for a new Stony Hill Police Station in St. Andrew West Rural.

4 years ago Foreign AffairsParliament

Preparing For Impact From Ukraine/Russia Conflict

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government is monitoring and preparing for the impact that the country’s economy will face because of conflict between the neighbouring countries, Ukraine and Russia. “We expect that the impact on Jamaica could be through the global energy prices, oil prices, in particular, and possibly through some commodities, maybe wheat [and] flour...