Jamaica Promotions Corporations (JAMPRO) is collaborating with the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), and other stakeholders to create a concept, which will allow the development and packaging of specific projects, with most of the necessary approvals in place, before the investor makes a decision to invest. This measure is part of Government’s endeavour, to make the process of investing, easier. Minister...

Member of Parliament for East Portland, Dr. Lynvale Bloomfield says young people must be the focus of any progressive development agenda. “Our youth form the largest segment of our population and who set the trends. (They) are innovative, creative, dynamic, prolific and terrific. We must empower our youth… for indeed there exists the fierce urgency of now and how,” Dr....

Water systems in several South East St. Ann communities are to be ungraded this year, to allow more residents access to the utility. This was announced by Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna as she highlighted developments in her constituency during her contribution to the 2014/15 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, May 20. Water systems...

As of June 1 this year, a cold storage facility to benefit farmers in South East St. Ann is to be re-opened in Lydford. Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna, made the announcement during her contribution to the 2014/15 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on May 20. She noted that while the cold storage facility is being made...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has committed $60 million to finance construction of a therapeutic centre for abused children. The facility is the brainchild of the Ministry of Youth and Culture. Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says the centre is intended to address the effects of abuse suffered by the nation’s children; particularly those taken into residential child...

The Board of the Maxfield Park Children’s Home in Kingston is to consult with the Attorney General’s office to review the facility’s legal status, to determine how it can become an incorporated Government institution. This consultation forms part of the several undertakings, which Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says must be addressed as part of initiatives by the...

The Ministry of Youth will be introducing, for the first time, an industry specific skills Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development programme to engage 40 youth in animation, graphic design and videography training. “We have also built in exposure/internship opportunities into the programme to ensure that our young people will develop their technical expertise and be ready to start their...