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,...

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...

The Government is to make 2,760 residential serviced lots available by March 2016, as part of its mandate to provide affordable quality housing for all Jamaicans. Minister without Portfolio in the Transport, Works and Housing Ministry, Hon. Dr. Morais Guy, who made the announcement on November 4, said there is now real urgency to get many projects that have been...

The Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing is reporting that work under Phase Two of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP 2) is far advanced. Director of Housing Policy in the Ministry Paula Parkes, told JIS News that “significant work” has been done in realising three of the six expected outputs. These include the Citywide Slum Situational Analysis, the Policy...