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Minister of Water and Housing, Dr. Horace Chang, has welcomed a Regional Workshop on the 'Integration of Sanitation Policies into National Development Plans of Caribbean Countries' to be held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston on April 28 and 29. The workshop will analyse the current sanitation situation in Caribbean countries, look at operational strategic issues and work at...

The National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) should make ready, some 269 residential lots in Hague/Cave Island in Trelawny, by the end of this year. This follows Cabinet's approval of a proposal for the implementation of infrastructure works on the property to be awarded to Buildrite Construction Company Limited at a cost of some $20.579 million. Information Minister Senator, Burchell Whiteman,...

The Government is to develop a national housing policy, with a number of key components, including a new-look joint venture housing plan. Water and Housing Minister, Donald Buchanan made the announcement on January 25, while speaking at the launch of FirstCaribbean International Building Society's international hard currency mortgage product, at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston. Mr. Buchanan said the...

Cabinet has received an interim report on the Kennedy Grove Housing Development in Clarendon, which was inundated with rising water levels, following unprecedented rainfall in October of last year.This was announced by Information Minister, Senator Burchell Whiteman, at the weekly post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, yesterday (January 23). The Minister pointed out that the interim report resulted from...

The House of Representatives yesterday (Nov. 29) approved a $500 million loan to the Jamaica Mortgage Bank for the financing of housing developments in several parishes. Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies who piloted the resolution seeking the government guarantee, informed that the loan, which is being sought from the Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS), would go towards the...

Water stakeholders throughout the hemisphere will converge in Montego Bay from October 9 to 14 for the fifth annual Inter-American Dialogue on Water Management. This is the first occasion that a Caribbean country will host the prestigious event, which will attract some 200 water specialists and experts from Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis,...

The Government, through the Inner City Housing Project (ICHP), is seeking to bring some order to the housing situation in Southside and Tel Aviv in Parade Gardens. The challenge, though, according to Maurice Anderson, Director of the Inner City Housing Project, is that the area is congested and the project officers are having a hard time finding "significant open spaces"...

Some $19.5 million has been set aside in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure tabled in the House of Representatives today, to continue with the development of land information and cadastral mapping system under the Ministry of Land and Environment's Land Titling Project. The Land Information and Cadastral mapping system supports land registration and divestment, land valuation and general information access...

Some $19.5 million has been set aside in the 2004/05 Estimates of Expenditure tabled in the House of Representatives today, to continue with the development of land information and cadastral mapping system under the Ministry of Land and Environment's Land Titling Project. The Land Information and Cadastral mapping system supports land registration and divestment, land valuation and general information access...

The Ebony Vale Housing Scheme in St. Catherine has emerged as the top scheme for the county of Middlesex in the National Housing Trust's (NHT's) Best Kept Scheme Competition. The county awards ceremony was held on Friday, March 5, at the Hotel Versalles in May Pen.In a keenly contested competition Ebony Vale Housing scheme won by a narrow margin, with...

More than 50 serviced lots were handed over yesterday (March 4) to employees of the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ), Monymusk Division, by the National Housing Trust (NHT). The lots are part of a total of 588 lots and one studio unit (demonstration), which have been allocated to the employees. About 38 lots were also handed over to the employees...