The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is encouraging Jamaicans to adopt a culture of composting and recycling, to reduce the amount of waste being produced. “We want to push composting, because depending on the statistics you chose to look at, anywhere between 67 to 75 percent of what we currently load on to a truck, at huge taxpayers’ expense,...

Christmas came early for an indigent family in Moreland Hill, Westmoreland, who received the keys to a $10 million two-bedroom housing unit built under the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development’s Indigent Housing Programme. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, handed over the housing solution to the family of four on Friday, December 9. The beneficiaries included Candice Coke, Antoinette...

Residents of Western Jamaica are being assured of significant improvement in solid waste collection in the region over the Christmas season. Public Cleansing Officer at Western Parks and Market (WPM) Waste Management Limited, Patrick Gilchrist, gave the commitment during the monthly meeting of the St. James Municipal Corporation in Montego Bay on Thursday (Dec.7). Mr. Gilchrist said that the recent...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development is spearheading a review of Jamaica’s road network to facilitate rehabilitation and the updating of records. This was disclosed by Portfolio Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, while speaking during Wednesday’s (December 7) contract-signing ceremony for the Beckford Lodge Road, Eastern Westmoreland rehabilitation project at the Ministry’s offices in Kingston. Mr. McKenzie said the...

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and Hardware and Lumber (H&L) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to facilitate the provision of garbage receptacles to communities across the island under the ‘Drum A Di Gate’ initiative. Executive Director of the NSWMA, Audley Gordon, said that under the agreement, 200 drums will be distributed per month for 12 months...

Significant rehabilitation work will be undertaken on the Beckford Lodge Road in Westmoreland at a cost of $41,723,887.50. The project is slated to be undertaken over four months from January to April 2023. Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, signed the contract with Managing Director of Wadmar Construction Limited, Mark Knight, at the Ministry’s Hagley Park...

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the Jamaica Fire Brigade continues to perform as an elite unit, with workers proudly relishing their role as first responders. Mr. McKenzie, who was giving the main address at the Jamaica Fire Brigade’s graduation ceremony for Intake No. 24 at the Madge Saunders Conference Centre, Tower Isle, St. Mary,...