For the 2022/23 financial year, the National Water Commission (NWC) will be undertaking key projects aimed at improving water supply and facilitating residential and commercial developments. “These include the replacement of aged infrastructure in Mandeville through the Greater Mandeville Water Supply Improvement Project and the transmission main replacement and installation along the south coast main roads in St Thomas,” Minister...

The National Water Commission (NWC) has substantially completed the transmission main from Six Miles to downtown Kingston, which is one of the major transmission mains serving Kingston and St. Andrew, at cost of more than $3.4 billion. The entity also rehabilitated the five-million-gallon Treated Water Storage Reservoir at Constant Spring. This was noted by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry...

The National Works Agency (NWA) will continue its programme of building out its fibre-optic network to connect key sections of its infrastructure, such as the traffic signals and its intelligent Traffic Management Centre. “The NWA has been at the forefront of building out a Public Safety Network for the Government and people of Jamaica. This is part of the Agency’s...

The National Housing Trust (NHT) has committed more than $37.8 million towards the national squatter survey. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, with responsibility for Works, Hon. Everald Warmington, made the disclosure during his contribution to the 2022/23 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on May 11. He noted that the initial budget...

The Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation is moving to regularise settlements occupied by more than 120 households in Kingston and St. Andrew, and St. James. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, with responsibility for Works, Hon. Everald Warmington, said that the Land Administration Management Branch will be taking steps to acquire six...

The Government is anticipating that substantial works will be completed by March 2023 on the first two tranches of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Programme (SCHIP), totalling approximately $11.5 billion. The Government’s flagship road project, the SCHIP, is being executed in three parts: Part A – May Pen to Williamsfield – 28 kilometres (km); Part B (ii) – Harbour View...

During the last fiscal year, the Government spent approximately $5.3 billion on road maintenance and repairs. Speaking in the 2022/23 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on May 11, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Everald Warmington, said another $637 million was expended on flood mitigation works. He pointed out that these...