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Cabinet on Monday, April 15, welcomed the announcement by the Office of the Contractor General that it is investigating the issue surrounding the construction and rental of shops at the Spaldings Market in Clarendon. It appears that standard administrative procedures may have been overlooked in attempting to address a clearly established need for vending space. Cabinet also notes that the...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has expressed profound sadness at the passing of cultural visionary, social anthropologist and founder of the Jamaican Folk Singers, Dr. the Hon Olive Lewin, OJ, CD. The Prime Minister said the passing of Olive Lewin, a pioneer musicologist, leaves a great void in the pursuit and preservation of Jamaica’s traditional music and...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has expressed deepest condolences to the Government, family and people of Great Britain on the death of former Prime Minister, Baroness Margaret Thatcher. As the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to have held the post, Baroness Thatcher made her mark on...

The contributions to public service and the trade union movement by former South East St. Elizabeth Member of Parliament, and Junior Government Minister, Derrick Rochester, have not gone unnoticed. Recently hundreds packed the HEART/NTA-run South West TVET Institute in Junction, in the parish where they heaped praises on him for his years in the public service. When bauxite infrastructural development...

A sum of $135.6 million has been allocated to a project to reduce/eliminate administrative barriers and to establish an improved business operating environment to support private sector growth. Details of the Promote, Renew, Investigate, Develop and Energise (PRIDE) Project are included in the 2013/14 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. Anticipated targets for 2013/2014 include:...

The Government has at no time engaged in any secret deal or quiet withdrawal of funds from the National Housing Trust, NHT. Claims of a secret NHT deal contained in an article in the Sunday Gleaner on April 7 with the headline ‘Secret Deal: NHT paid $4billion into government’s coffers last year’, are incorrect and misleading. It is a well...

A sum of $135.6 million has been allocated to a project to reduce/eliminate administrative barriers and to establish an improved business operating environment to support private sector growth. Details of the Promote, Renew, Investigate, Develop and Energise (PRIDE) Project are included in the 2013/14 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. Anticipated targets for 2013/2014 include:...

Ground was broken on Friday, April 5, for the redevelopment of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Lathbury Barracks at Up Park Camp, which is to cost approximately $1.7 billion. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, who performed the task, said she was happy that the project has finally gotten off the ground after being so long in the...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has stressed the need to spread proper values and attitudes throughout the length and breadth of Jamaica. “I feel we could do much more in terms of the values and attitudes. I don’t think we have gotten off the ground the way we ought to,” Mrs. Simpson Miller said, during an interview...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has expressed sadness at the passing of business icon and philanthropist the Hon. Maurice Facey, OJ, JP while describing the business executive as a founder of the contemporary real estate industry in Jamaica and a pioneer developer who helped to lay the foundation for the modern business and commercial life of the...

Prime Minister and Minister of Sport, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has congratulated the Jamaican team on its outstanding performances at the just concluded Carifta Games in the Bahamas. The team’s performance was outstanding and spectacular, said Mrs. Simpson Miller, adding: “the sheer brilliance, depth and dominance of Team Jamaica once again demonstrates to the world that we are...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has congratulated Jamaican Whycliffe ‘Dave’ Cameron on being elected President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The elections were held on Wednesday, March 27, in Barbados. In a congratulatory message, the Prime Minister said Jamaica and the region expects that under his watch West Indies cricket can chart a new course...