Cabinet has approved the award of a contract to Ashtrom Building Systems Limited for the provision of housing solutions in Tower Hill, St. Andrew. The contract is valued at $286 million and is for the design and construction of housing on four acres of land. “It will see the construction of 16 apartment units with two-bedroom and one-bedroom [options], and...

Constable Owen Graham of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is the proud recipient of a new two-bedroom home in the Roseneath Park development in Old Harbour, St. Catherine. He is one of 30 persons who were presented with keys to units in Phase one of the project, during a handover ceremony on Wednesday (October 12). Constable Graham, who is confined...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), hands over the keys for a new house to resident of Shenton, Bog Walk, in St. Catherine, Francis Dixon (centre), on October 12. At left is Councillor for the Bog Walk Division, Peter Abrahams, and at front is Oswald, son of Mr. Dixon. The unit was constructed under the Government’s New Social...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), engages with Patrick Watson (centre) of Cudjoe’s Hill, St. Catherine, who is the beneficiary of a new home under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP). Member of Parliament for St. Catherine West Central, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), shares the moment. Occasion was Wednesday’s (October 12) ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially hand...

A total of 100 units have, so far, been built and delivered under the Government’s New Social Housing Programme (NSHP). Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says this demonstrates that the society’s neediest persons were being rapidly reached under the initiative. The NSHP, which was conceptualised by the Prime Minister and implemented in 2018, targets the relocation of vulnerable...

Thirty housing units in Phase one of the Roseneath Park development in Old Harbour, St. Catherine, were handed over to proud new homeowners during a ceremony Wednesday (October 12). The units form part of a total of 140 detached two-bedroom units to be purchased by the National Housing Trust (NHT) from Roseneath Developers Limited under the guaranteed purchase programme (GPP)....

The Government intends to absorb the land impact fee associated with the construction of 15,000 new housing solutions in the Greater Bernard Lodge Development Area of St. Catherine. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the disclosure while addressing the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) 2022 Board of Directors Retreat on Friday (October 7) at the ROK Hotel, Downtown Kingston....