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KINGSTON — The Ministry of Transport and Works has launched a project to refurbish some 400 discarded Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses, at one third the cost of a new bus. The project was embraced by the Ministry after Brazilian company, Incavel, took home one of the discarded buses, and refurbished it at their own expense. It was brought...

MONTEGO BAY — Richmond Housing Development, comprising 250 completed three-bedroom houses, entertainment centre, swimming pool, children’s play area and 24-hour security, was officially opened on September 17 by Minister of Housing, Environment and Water, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang. The 500-acre property, with some 100 families already occupying houses, is located near Priory, in St. Ann. Delivering the main address, the...

KINGSTON — Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Novelette Grant, has made a call for a collaborative and multi-sector approach to reducing road fatalities and motor vehicle accidents. “We have…to include a really multi-agency approach to a national problem if we are to really achieve the targets and goals that we have set for ourselves as a nation to reduce accidents,...

KINGSTON — Contributors to the National Housing Trust (NHT) are being reassured that their funds are secure, even as the agency moves to set up a Foundation, using money from contributions that have remained unclaimed for 17 years, to address the needs of the society’s indigent in infirmaries and golden age homes. Informing that work on the establishment of the...

KINGSTON — Minister of Transport and Works, Hon. Mike Henry, says the country can achieve fewer accidents on the roads and reduce fatalities to below 300, annually. “There is a need for us to abhor all forms of negativity in the traffic environment, and play an active role in ensuring that, instead of talking about below 300, we can begin...

KINGSTON — The National Housing Trust (NHT) is currently exploring feasible ways to effectively accommodate  more members of the Diaspora,  who are interested in  contributing to the scheme. Chairman of the NHT, Howard Mitchell,  has argued that  the "seeming" lack of "connectivity" between the Trust and the Diaspora continues to resonate in discussions between the agency and its clients. "The...

KINGSTON — National Housing Trust (NHT) Managing Director, Cecile Watson, says the agency is seeking to fulfill the mandate of its Vision 2015 strategy, of delivering close to 30,000 affordable housing solutions to contributors over the next four years. Speaking at the NHT's Roundtable Discussions at their New Kingston office on Wednesday (September 14), Mrs. Watson said the Trust's plans...

KINGSTON — Minister of Transport and Works, the Hon Mike Henry, says he is awaiting a comprehensive report from meetings being held among stakeholders to the US$65 million Palisadoes Shoreline Protection and Rehabilitation Programme, over recent days, following major hitches caused mainly by violent intimidation on the project site. Mr. Henry, who is on official business in Trinidad and Tobago,...

KINGSTON — The Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) will not approve any construction being considered for the Long Mountain area in Kingston. "This Council will never consider application in those areas (Jacks Hill, Hope Pastures, Long Mountain), because of the danger that they  pose to people living on the plains of the Corporate Area," Mayor  of Kingston, Councillor Desmond...

MONTEGO BAY — The Trelawny Parish Council is currently analysing the effectiveness of the pedestrianisation (pedestrian traffic only ) of Water Square, in Falmouth,  following the implementation of the new traffic management system in that town some five months ago. According to Mayor of Falmouth, Councillor Collin Gager, the assessment has been ongoing from the implementation of the system, and...

KINGSTON — The fleet of buses serving Government's employees has been improved with the addition of four buses. The air conditioned buses, which were commissioned during a ceremony at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) service depot, on Ashenheim Road, in Kingston on September 9, bring to 13 the number of buses now serving public servants in Kingston and St....

KINGSTON — The southern corridor of the new Dry River Bridge, currently being constructed at Harbour View, St. Andrew, is now open to vehicular and commuter access. Work on that section of the bridge, which comprises two lanes, has been completed and was opened by Transport and Works Minister, Hon. Michael Henry, during a brief ceremony on Sunday Sept. 11....