The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is reporting that it has significantly cut the processing time for building sub-division applications. Mayor of Kingston, Senator Councillor Angela Brown Burke announced at a recent meeting of the KSAC that the Council had brought its backlog of 1,000 applications down to 85. She further informed that for the period January to March,...

Mayor of May Pen, Councillor Scean Barnswell, has urged residents of Rocky Point, Clarendon, to find innovative and creative ways to encourage business in their community. Mayor Barnswell was speaking at the official ceremony to hand over the newly constructed Rocky Point Market, in the community on April 12. Meanwhile, the Mayor thanked the Jamaica Social Investment fund (JSIF) for...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has made another blistering condemnation of those who continue to abuse the nation’s children. “I condemn every attack on any child in this country. If they are misbehaving and you don’t like it, take them to a teacher, a pastor, a community leader, a person that can demand respect. Please do not...

Residents of Rocky Point, Clarendon, are welcoming the construction of a new market in their community, built at a cost of approximately $50 million, on the grounds of a previous facility. More than 300 persons will benefit directly, and 4,200 indirectly, from the market, which was built over five months, primarily to accommodate fish vendors and scrapers in one of...

The Government met 80 per cent of its target for property tax collections in the 2013/14 fiscal year. Senior Director of Revenue Enhancement and Resource Mobilisation in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, Calvert Thomas, told JIS News that approximately $5.8 billion of the $7.26 billion revenue target was collected. Mr. Thomas said this was a satisfactory performance...

The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is reporting that $1.56 billion in property tax was collected during the last fiscal year. “For 2013/14 we collected 95 per cent of the target...falling short by about $81.25 million. Kingston contributed seven per cent to the overall collection and St. Andrew contributed 88 per cent. The target, of course, was $1.64 billion,”...

A sum of $20 million will be spent this fiscal year to repair two kilometres of roadway along the access road to the Riverton City Landfill in St. Andrew. This is to improve utilisation of the landfill, and reduce down-time and operating costs for garbage trucks. The money has been provided in the 2014/15 Estimates of Expenditure, currently being reviewed...