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KINGSTON — Carnival Cruise Lines has reached an agreement with the Government of Jamaica, which will guarantee cruise ship ports in Montego Bay and Ocho Rios at least 1.2 million visitors over three years. The effective date of the agreement is March 1, 2011, and it will ensure that both ports maintain current levels of cruise arrivals, despite the competition...

KINGSTON — Cabinet has approved a $137,348,523 contract with ACID Security Services Limited to provide security services at all Transport Authority locations. Speaking on August 10 post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, said the contract is for a period of three years. “The contract was awarded following the...

KINGSTON — Minister of Transport and Works, Hon Mike Henry, is to address a number of issues raised by taxi operators in Clarendon at a meeting with the Minister at Denbigh High School, on Thursday August 11. Mr. Henry called the meeting with the transport operators, after they had raised concerns about alleged harassment, including their claim that operators in...

The Bog Walk Gorge in St. Catherine reopened this morning, August 11. The corridor, which had been closed to vehicular traffic since July 4, will reopen at 5 am. The corridor was closed for one month to allow for the completion of pipe-laying works by the National Water Commission (NWC). In order to facilitate the closure of the roadway, the...

KINGSTON — Minister of Transport and Works, Hon. Michael Henry, says he will be taking a zero tolerance approach to illegal operators who seek to evade structures created to ensure safe and reliable public transport services. At the same time, Mr. Henry said he believes that public transport monitoring and regulatory systems should facilitate and encourage order, safety, and reliability,...

KINGSTON — The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will be extending its services on Independence Day, Saturday August 6 to facilitate persons getting home after the Grand Gala at the National Stadium in Kingston. The extension of the service will see buses running past their regular hours on select routes. These include, those running between the National Stadium and the...

KINGSTON — Minister of Housing, Environment and Water, Dr. Horace Chang, says details of Government's national housing policy will be presented in Parliament, when it resumes after the summer recess. Speaking at Friday's July 29 titles presentation for the Eden Park housing development, at the Eden Park sports complex, Jack's River, St. Mary Dr. Chang said that the policy will...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) funded Phase II of the Fern Gully Restoration and Rehabilitation Project is on schedule to be substantially completed by mid December this year when the roadway will be reopened to traffic. Manager of Communication and Customer Services at the National Works Agency Stephen Shaw says that...

KINGSTON — Housing, Environment and Water Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says work will commence on 5,000 additional starter units this year, to increase the number of units being developed to 11,000 by the end of the 2011/12 fiscal year. Development of the starter units, which forms part of the national housing programme, aims to address the incidence of informal...

KINGSTON — The lives of some 103 residents of Jack's River, St. Mary, are expected to be significantly enhanced with the provision of titles and letters of possession for serviced lots in the Eden Park housing development by the Ministry of Housing, Environment and Water. A total of 126 lots have been developed, of which 103 have already been sold...

OCHO RIOS — Residents of Thicketts in St. Ann are expressing gratitude for the work done under the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) to rehabilitate the main roadway leading into the community. Some $20 million was spent under the programme to repair the two-kilometre stretch, which was officially opened on Friday (July 29) by Minister of State for Transport and...

KINGSTON — The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will be offering transportation service to and from the Denbigh agricultural show, which gets underway on Saturday, July 30. The cost is $995 per person per day over the three days of the event, which concludes on Monday, August 1. The buses will leave Half-Way Tree Transport Centre, Portmore Mall and the...