A total of 7,525 tablets are being procured for use in conducting the 2022 Population and Housing Census. This is the first time the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) will be using tablets to carry out this exercise. Making the announcement during a virtual post-Cabinet press briefing on Wednesday (January 5), Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams,...

Westmoreland will be given an additional six social housing solutions to benefit the less fortunate in the parish. This was noted by Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, at a recent meeting of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation. These will be in addition to a house being constructed for a family in the Sheffield division in the...

Selected contributors to the National Housing Trust (NHT) are to benefit from the allocation of 178 housing solutions at the Estuary, Phase 2, Housing Development, in St. James. This follows Cabinet’s approval for the promulgation of an NHT Special Benefit Order, effective July 30, 2021, to facilitate the allocation. Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, made the...

Transport and Mining Minister Hon. Robert Montague, on Tuesday (December 21) handed out land titles to five families from communities in St. Ann, as part of land settlement agreements by Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners. The beneficiaries are from the areas of Friendship Cottage, Hartlands, Highbury Road in Alexandria and Minard. The titles represent part of 1200 titles to be conferred by the bauxite company to...

The National Housing Trust, (NHT), wishes to remind our customers that applications for contributions refund are ONLY accessible online. The NHT no longer accepts refund applications in-person at any of our locations as we continue to prioritise the safety of our staff and customers. Contributors may apply for their refunds via our website; www.nht.gov.jm, and also via our mobile app, ‘NHT Online’, which...

The second draft of the National Squatter Management Policy is to be submitted to Cabinet by the end of January 2022, along with the implementation plan and budget. This follows the conclusion of stakeholder consultations on the first draft of the policy on December 14. This is according to data provided by a Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says that the Government is looking to boost the financial ability of the National Housing Trust (NHT) to bring more housing solutions to the market each year. He noted that over the last five years, “the NHT has increased its output by as much as four times what they were producing before. That,...