The ability of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) to monitor and safeguard the country’s borders will be strengthened in the new financial year. The Government has allocated $2.7 billion in the 2022/23 Estimates of Expenditure to facilitate the procurement of radar, marine offshore patrol vessels, cameras, software, hardware, and other equipment. This will be done under the Purchase and Overhaul...

Approximately $83 million has been allocated to continue work on the construction of the Western Children and Adolescent Hospital in Montego Bay, St. James, during the new financial year. Details are outlined in the 2022/2023 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project is aimed at building a 220-bed facility on the compound of the Cornwall Regional...

The Government will be spending $1 billion on the National HIV/AIDS Response in Jamaica Project over the 2022/2023 fiscal year. Objectives of the programme are geared at reducing AIDS-related morbidity with effective biomedical and supporting interventions, and reducing new HIV infections among key populations through behavioural and structural interventions. Details of the project are outlined in the 2022/2023 Estimates of...

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...