The National Irrigation Commission Limited (NIC) wishes to advise that it has activated its disaster preparedness plan in an effort to mitigate the effects of possible flooding from the unstable weather conditions which have been affecting the island. Please note the following updates for our respective regions: Eastern Region (St Catherine Irrigation District, St Dorothy’s –Old Harbour, Yallahs –St. Thomas):...

Rehabilitation and expansion works along Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston have addressed the problem of severe flooding of the roadway. The National Works Agency (NWA) is reporting that the heavy rains that pelted the island on Monday night (May 15) into Tuesday morning (May 16), causing extensive damage in some parishes, did not affect the thoroughfare. Last September, a number...

Rehabilitation and expansion works along Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston have addressed the problem of severe flooding of the roadway. The National Works Agency (NWA) is reporting that the heavy rains that pelted the island on Monday night (May 15) into Tuesday morning (May 16), causing extensive damage in some parishes, did not affect the thoroughfare. Last September, a number...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the damage caused by the heavy rainfall is a clear indication that the infrastructural network is inadequate to deal with such occurrences. He told JIS News that the unprecedented level of rainfall in some parishes was way beyond what was calculated for in the original planning and development of...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says the Government is assessing the full impact of the heavy rains that are currently affecting the island. “The assessments continue right across the country. We made available to the Municipal Corporations yesterday (May 15) $175 million, and that was to be spent in the parishes of Clarendon, Manchester, Portland,...

President of the National Water Commission (NWC), Mark Barnett, says that while the company produces more than 90 per cent of Jamaica’s total potable water, it is seriously challenged to improve and expand service delivery. Addressing a recent NWC conference on ‘Financing Water Utilities of the Caribbean’ at the RIU Hotel, Montego Bay, he said that to continue producing such...

The government will update the country this afternoon (May 16) on the heavy rainfall affecting the island at a press conference to be held at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). The press conference will commence at 4:00 p.m. Prior to the press conference, Acting Prime Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang will meet with Heads of Emergency Agencies at...