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Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, Mrs. Doreen Prendergast, speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on January 21, about the launch of Phase Two of the UN Habitat’s Slum Upgrading Project.

Phase 2 of UN Habitat’s Slum Upgrading Project to be Launched

The Government is set to launch Phase Two of the UN Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP 2). The programme, which is being implemented in three phases, is intended to help in improving the living conditions of the urban poor...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, Hon. Richard Azan (left), points out a section of the Old Porus Road in Manchester, where rehabilitation work costing over $24 million is to commence by January 21. The State Minister was on a tour of the area on January 14. Others (from second left) are: Mayor of Mandeville, Councillor Brenda Ramsey; Councillor for the Porus Division, Muriel Swaby; Member of Parliament for South Manchester, Michael Peart, and National Works Agency (NWA) Regional Director, Sadiq Mahabeer.

Old Porus Road to be Rehabilitated

Marketing and Communications Manager at the JUTC, Clinton Clarke, displays replicas of the Smarter cards used on the state owned bus company.

JUTC To Remove ‘Pay For Other’ Feature

Marketing and Communications Manager at the JUTC, Clinton Clarke, informing JIS News about the company’s extension of night service on New Year’s Eve.

JUTC Extends Night Service New Year’s Eve

Commanding Officer for the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Traffic and Highway Division, Senior Superintendent of Police, Calvin Allen (left), conversing with students in Half-Way Tree, St. Andrew.

Police Call for Greater Caution on the Roads

11 years ago Transport

Section of North Coast Highway Collapses After Flash Flooding

A section of the North Coast Highway just outside of Galina in the vicinity of Villa Road collapsed during days of heavy rains and flash flooding in St. Mary. The roadway was blocked-off by the National Works Agency and signage posted to inform motorists of a temporary detour through a Parish Council Road adjacent to the Highway. The NWA has...

Minister of State, Transport, Works & Housing, the Hon. Richard Azan.

11 years ago Transport

Emergency Works Underway in St. Mary

Hon. Richard Azan, Minister of State, Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing following site visits to St. Mary and Portland over the weekend met with a Technical Team today to carry out flood damage assessment of the areas affected by days of heavy rains and flash flooding up to Saturday December 20, 2014. Minister Azan says the meeting was held...

11 years ago Transport

Emergency Patching Along Corporate Area Main Roads and Bus Routes

Starting today Wednesday, December 17, 2014, the National Works Agency (NWA) will embark on the first phase of an emergency pot hole patching programme along selected main roads and bus routes in the corporate area. The duration of the programme is three (3) weeks, however phase one of this two phase programme will begin today and end on Friday, December...

Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) Senior Director, Commercial Development and Planning, Alfred McDonald (right), makes a presentation to Neil Graham of Corinaldi Avenue Primary School in St. James, for placing first in the five to nine age category of the AAJ’s inaugural Schools’ Art Project. Occasion was the award ceremony held on Friday (December 12), at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.

11 years ago Transport

Students Benefit from Exposure to Visual Arts – Lady Hall

Lady Rheima Hall, wife of former Governor-General, His Excellency Professor Sir Kenneth Hall, is hailing the benefits to be derived from exposing students to the visual arts. She said they learn to develop creative and flexible forms of thinking and acquire mental habits that they are not taught in other classes including envisioning, innovating and reflecting. “They (are able to)...

11 years ago Transport

Heavy Rains Leave Several Roads Blocked in Portland/St. Mary

Heavy rainfall during the past 48 hours has resulted in the blockage of roadways in Portland and St. Mary. Stephen Shaw, Manager of Communication and Customer Services at the National Works Agency (NWA) says that in Western Portland four blockages occurred between Lennox and White Gate in Black Hill. Mr. Shaw says the roadway has been cleared allowing single lane...

11 years ago Transport

JMB Reports Increase In Loans To Private Housing Developers

The Jamaica Mortgage Bank (JMB) has reported an increase in loans issued by the bank to private housing developers between 2011 and 2014. Director of Business Operations at Jamaica Mortgage Bank, Hecton Hemans, said the bank disbursed between $424 million and $699 million to finance projects between 2011 and 2014. “The funds were used to undertake the development of between...

Director, Business Operations at Jamaica Mortgage Bank, Hecton Hemans addressing a JIS Think Tank on December 9.

11 years ago JIS Think TankTransport

JMB Develops Housing Statistics Database

Jamaicans will soon be able to benefit from a database of housing starts that is being developed by the Jamaica Mortgage Bank (JMB). The Housing Starts Metrics will be used to provide information on, monitor and measure island wide performance of housing starts. Housing starts is an economic indicator that reflects the number of privately owned housing units on which...