Approximately $99.6 million has been allocated to enhance resilience to climate change among targeted fishing and aquaculture communities in Jamaica, under the Promoting Community-Based Climate Resilience and the Fisheries Sector Project. Details of the provision are outlined in the 2022/2023 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Anticipated Physical Targets for 2022/2023 are the commencement of a final...

More than $2.6 billion has been set aside to continue the Essex Valley Irrigation Infrastructure Development Programme. Details of the provision are contained in the 2022/2023 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The programme aims to assist in achieving food security and modernisation of the agricultural sector by increasing the area under formal irrigation in St. Elizabeth...

More than $1.3 billion has been allocated for the Southern Plains Agricultural Development Project, which aims to provide access to irrigation water on fallow sugar lands, to increase agricultural productivity through the modernisation of the agricultural sector. Details of the provision are contained in the 2022/2023 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project includes construction of...

For the 2022/23 financial year, the Jamaica Mortgage Bank (JMB) will continue to mobilise financial resources for on-lending to developers, so as to contribute to the overall increase in the supply of housing solutions. This is outlined in the Public Bodies Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the year ending March 2023. Accordingly, securing funding at competitive rates for on-lending...

The Government of Jamaica has allocated $105 million for the rehabilitation of select facilities at the Bodles Research Station, which will directly impact the level of support given to farmers. Details of the project, which is being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, are provided in the 2022/2023 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The...

A sum of $150 million has been budgeted for the Modernisation of the Agricultural Sector Programme. The objective of the project, which is being implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, is to increase agricultural productivity and income for beneficiary smallholder farmers. Details are outlined in the 2022/2023 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Among the...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, says that while representational politics was never a first career choice, she now finds it both rewarding and very inspirational. Minister Williams, who was speaking at a virtual forum, “Youth Career Talk”, on Friday (February 11), said that while some persons close to her tried to dissuade her from entering the political...