Parents who utilise the overnight suite located at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in Kingston will now have a more comfortable and aesthetically pleasing environment. The National Housing Trust (NHT) carried out improvements, including cleaning and painting of the interior and exterior of the building, as part of activities for Labour Day on May 23. The scope of work, valued...

Chairman, Rent Assessment Board, Rose Bennett-Cooper, is calling on landlords to take advantage of the low registration fee to sign up with the entity in order to benefit from the range of services provided. She pointed out that legislation being proposed will raise the registration fee from the current $20. Mrs. Bennett-Cooper, who was speaking to JIS News at the...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon Andrew Holness, says the Government is working to build more affordable housing solutions for Jamaicans as part of a strategy to deal with informal settlements. “The squatter problem is not only a function of the unavailability of land; it is really a function of the lack of housing solutions being provided by the formal market....

National Coordinator of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment Programme (HOPE), Lieutenant Colonel Martin Rickman, says the programme is seeking to increase partnerships with private-sector organisations, in an effort to expand its reach. “We invite interested organisations to make contact with the HOPE office located at the Office of the Prime Minister and indicate to us what their needs are...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the National Housing Trust (NHT) is executing plans to build up to 22,000 housing starts for the four-year period to 2020. “This is action that will transform the lives of poor people. These 22,000 housing starts will be spread across Jamaica, and we are innovating to achieve these higher levels of housing...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has announced that a new town centre is to be built for Falmouth, Trelawny. He advised that the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) has identified 50 acres of land in close proximity to the town for the development, which will be similar to that planned for Morant Bay, St. Thomas, which was announced...

The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) is targeting 16 communities across the island under its land-titling programme, aimed at providing citizens with formal documentation for the property that they occupy. The communities to benefit from the land regularisation exercise are part of a number of informal settlements indentified under Operation PRIDE. HAJ Managing Director, Gary Howell, told JIS News that...