The Jamaica Mortgage Bank (JMB) will be staging a housing seminar on June 22 to facilitate discussions on how the housing sector can impact economic development. Themed: ‘Achieving Economic Growth through Investment in the Housing Sector’, the event, to be held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, will feature presentations and a panel discussion with stakeholders and representatives...

The Government has committed to reducing stamp duties and transfer taxes on land transactions. Transfer tax is a payment to the Commissioner of Stamp Duty at the rate of five per cent of the sale price or value for which the property is transferred. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang,...

The Government will be undertaking major work to improve social infrastructure and amenities in West Kingston. This was announced by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, who toured sections of Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town on Friday (May 13). Dr. Chang said the intervention, which is to get underway this...

Minister of Health, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has invited members of the pharmaceutical industry to partner with the Government in facilitating the National Health Fund’s (NHF) Drug Serv counters in their establishments. He made the appeal during a ‘Meet the Minister’ luncheon forum with the industry players, at the Knutsford Court Hotel, in Kingston, on April 19. Dr. Tufton...

Minister without Portfolio with responsibility for Housing, Hon. Dr. Morais Guy, says some 5,900 potential serviced lots have been identified across the island and will be developed as housing solutions, under the National Housing Programme (NHP). Speaking in Balaclava, St. Elizabeth, on December 9, where Certificates of Possession were handed out to beneficiaries of the Balaclava Heights housing development, Dr....

Water, Land, Environment, and Climate Change Minister, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, has expressed satisfaction with the progress of work on the $1 billion artificial groundwater recharge system, being built at Innswood, St. Catherine, by the National Water Commission (NWC). The project, which commenced 15 months ago, is scheduled for completion by the end of November, and will supply nearly five million...

Minister with responsibility for Housing in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, Hon. Dr. Morais Guy, is calling on the private sector to partner with the Government in the regeneration of housing stock and the redevelopment of downtown Kingston and other urban areas. He noted that much of the infrastructure in the urban centres have fallen into disrepair including...