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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...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has called on Jamaicans to build a quality society characterized by excellence noting that “Jamaica cannot maximize its potential for greatness and achieve what we need in the next 50 years without sustained hard work.” Speaking to hundreds of persons gathered at Emancipation Park in New Kingston on Sunday (March 24) for...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, is urging the media to be vigilant against any practice which corrodes competitiveness and the growth of democracy. “Indeed, the media are the watch dogs and the guardians of our democratic system and that is why they are called the fourth estate. The media have a natural interest in campaigning...

The Social Development Commission (SDC) has been making gains in developing the nation’s communities, assisting them to access approximately $30 million to date, to undertake various wealth creation projects. According to Executive Director of the SDC, Dr. Dwayne Vernon, the agency has helped communities to access these monies, “by virtue of being trained, completing a community priority plan, and submitting...

The Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica’s (BCJ) recent digital media literacy presentation at Mona High School, St. Andrew, has been hailed as a major success by several students who participated. Representatives of the Commission, led by Executive Director, Cordel Green, delivered wide ranging presentations on several topics during sessions held with Grade 10 and 11 students and their teachers. These included:...

Distinguished, pioneering, passionate, and committed, are a few of the outstanding traits exhibited by recipient of the Management Institute of National Development’s (MIND) inaugural Public Life Award for Leadership Excellence, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Managing Director, Scarlette Gillings. The award, which was presented to her during the recent staging of MIND’s annual Leadership Development Conference, recognizes innovations in governance...