Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeny, said that more than $5 billion has been invested by the Fund in the upgrading of schools across the island over the past 19 years. This includes providing classroom space, fencing, playground, sanitation and other required equipment. He was speaking at a function in Troy, South Trelawny on Friday,...

The dream of owning their own home is one of the most important life goals for many Jamaicans.  Helping Jamaicans realise that important home ownership dream is an important policy objective of government. The Sugar Barracks Relocation Programme is one of the ways in which the Government is doing so.  This initiative is also in alignment with the Government’s poverty...

Work on the Caymanas to Linstead leg of the North-South Highway is more than 80 per cent complete and is on track to conclude in the first quarter of 2016. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, who toured that section of the highway yesterday (October 28), said she is pleased with the progress of the project. She commended...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller Portia Simpson Miller says she is very pleased with the progress being made on the construction of the North-South Highway from Caymanas in St. Catherine to Mammee Bay near Ocho Rios in St. Ann. The Prime Minister was speaking with journalists during a tour of a section of the highway from Caymanas to Treadways in...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has extended condolences to the families of the 19 babies who died from klebsiella and serratia infection at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), in Kingston, and the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), in Montego Bay. Addressing Tuesday’s (October 27) sitting of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Simpson Miller noted that “all...

The Minister with Responsibility for Information wishes to clarify recent reports in the media based on a News Release from the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) alleging the OUR was not apprised of the contents of the Bill establishing a new governance framework for the agency. These reports do not present the complete facts.  Earlier this year, a best practice...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has expressed sympathies to the families of the babies who died from infection caused by the Klebsiella and Serratia bacteria at the University Hospital of the West Indies and Cornwall Regional Hospital, while urging the Ministry of Health to ensure that the situation does not recur. “I extend sincere sympathies to parents...