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Census Data to Address Housing Needs for Vulnerable Groups

The Government is looking to use data from the 2022 Population and Housing Census to ascertain and more effectively address the shelter needs of Jamaica’s most vulnerable citizens. This, by further streamlining provisions under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP),...
Chief Technical Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Yaneke Watson.
Chief Technical Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Yaneke Watson.

Applicants No Longer Required To Register For Low-Cost Housing Design Competition
National Coordinator of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme, Colonel Martin Rickman. (File Photo)
National Coordinator of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme, Colonel Martin Rickman. (File Photo)

HOPE Looking For More Opportunities To Place Interns During COVID-19
Managing Director of the HEART/NSTA Trust, Dr. Janet Dyer, speaks at the recent launch of the World Skills Jamaica Shanghai 2021 competition, at The Jamaica Pegasus.
Managing Director of the HEART/NSTA Trust, Dr. Janet Dyer, speaks at the recent launch of the World Skills Jamaica Shanghai 2021 competition, at The Jamaica Pegasus.

Training and Certification of Inmates
Board Director, HOPE Opportunity Charity Limited, Stephen McMorris (third right), presents a cheque valued at $1 million to National Coordinator of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme, Colonel Martin Rickman (third left), for the homeless housing project, during a ceremony held at Jamaica House on August 5. Others (from left) are Board Member, HOPE Opportunity Charity Limited, Ester Clarke; Project Manager at HEART/NSTA Trust/HOPE Programme, Michelle Christie; Board Member, Hope Opportunity Charity Limited, Marcia Edwards; and Board Member, HOPE Opportunity Charity Limited, Marclin Williams.
Board Director, HOPE Opportunity Charity Limited, Stephen McMorris (third right), presents a cheque valued at $1 million to National Coordinator of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme, Colonel Martin Rickman (third left), for the homeless housing project, during a ceremony held at Jamaica House on August 5. Others (from left) are Board Member, HOPE Opportunity Charity Limited, Ester Clarke; Project Manager at HEART/NSTA Trust/HOPE Programme, Michelle Christie; Board Member, Hope Opportunity Charity Limited, Marcia Edwards; and Board Member, HOPE Opportunity Charity Limited, Marclin Williams.

PHOTOS: HOPE Cheque Handover

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (second left), joins in cutting the ribbon to officially hand over a three-bedroom house to Melissa Smith (centre), in Old Harbour Bay, St. Catherine, on Thursday (July 30). Others (from left) are Member of Parliament for South West St. Catherine, Hon. Everald Warmington; Councillor for the Old Harbour South Division, Lloyd Grant; and Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Doreen Prendergast.The unit was provided under the Government
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Gov’t To Launch Design Competition For Low-Income Housing Market

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government will be launching a design competition, where building professionals will be invited to come up with affordable housing solutions to meet the needs of the low-income market. “We are going to be calling on our engineers and our architects to come up with engineering designs, architectural designs and material selections...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses the handing over ceremony of a one bedroom house to an elderly person in Bogue, St. Elizabeth, on July 17.
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PM Says Jamaicans Must Remain Vigilant

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is still a clear and present danger, and that Jamaicans should remain vigilant and avoid becoming complacent. Mr. Holness, who was giving the main address at the handover of a one-bedroom house to a physically challenged man in Bogue, St Elizabeth on July 17, said while Jamaica’s exemplary...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, points to the ‘before and after’ photographs of a housing solution constructed under the Housing Opportunity Production and Employment (HOPE) programme, at the handover ceremony in Annotto Bay, St. Mary, on Thursday (July 2).
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Government To Use Several Models To Deliver Housing Solutions Under HOPE

The Government intends to use several models to deliver new housing solutions, under the flagship intervention, Housing Opportunity Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, gave this update during the handover of the first multi-family housing solution to three sisters residing in the town of Annotto Bay, St. Mary, on Thursday (July 3), which was...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), speaks to one of the beneficiaries of a multifamily housing solution, Kadian Pitter (centre), on Thursday (July 2) inside the new unit in Annotto Bay, St. Mary. Sharing the moment is Member of Parliament for St. Mary South Eastern, Dr. Norman Dunn.
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Prime Minister Hands Over New Houses To Three Sisters In St. Mary

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, today (July 2) handed over a new multifamily house to three sisters living in Annotto Bay, St. Mary, under the social housing component of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) programme. The seaside board and zinc tenement yard, which had housed three sisters and their children, was transformed into three attached two-bedroom...
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Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), engages with Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) interns Danielle Harris (centre) and Rujuan Dawes, who are among 40 youngsters assigned to the Ministry to assist with the digitisation programme. Occasion was a welcome ceremony for the HOPE interns at the Ministry
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40 HOPE Interns To Assist Technology Ministry’s Digitisation Programme

The Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology’s digitisation programme has been strengthened with the addition of 40 young people, who will assist in the digital transformation exercise. Recruited through the Government’s Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme, the youngsters will be engaged for 12 months, where they will carry out work in the areas of records management; customer service;...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (third left), encourages recipients of the Jamaica Labour Party National Scholarship, who will be doing volunteer work, under the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme Volunteer Project. They are (from second left): Raimona Gowie-Roberts; Demar Brown; Sebastian Lawrence; Nile Anderson; and Daniel Meggo. Occasion was a HOPE Volunteer Project event, held at Jamaica House on February 13. At left is National Coordinator of the HOPE Programme, Lt. Col. Martin Rickman.
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Government To Expand HOPE Programme

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government is to expand the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme, in partnership with the private sector. “I will be meeting with members of the private sector on February 14 to see how they can come on board, to create opportunities for employment and engagement for young people, where the...
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