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The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) has committed $34.4 million to undertake a major road rehabilitation project in the rural community of Maryland in St. Catherine. The project will involve repair of the 3.5-kilometre Maryland Road beginning at Jubilee Town, through Maryland and ending at John's Pen/Water Level. The entire cost of the works is $36 million and the Maryland...

Ground was broken on Friday (Jan. 22) for the rehabilitation of the 3.2 kilometres Greenfield Road in St. Elizabeth. The work will be carried out at a cost of $32 million, with the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) providing $27 million, and the remaining $5 million coming from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Addressing a brief ceremony held at the...

Minister of Transport and Works, Hon Michael Henry, says his Ministry will re-engage the development of the domestic air transport sector, as a critical part of the multi-modal transport policy it is seeking to implement. Mr. Henry pointed to the Boscobel Aerodrome in St. Mary, as a case in point which, he says, will soon be the third international port...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding says his office had no knowledge that the National Workers Union (NWU) should have been a part of the delegation representing the Jamaica Airline Pilots Association (JALPA) which met with him earlier this week to discuss a proposal on the sale of Air Jamaica. Mr. Golding was responding to accusations from the NWU that...

The Government has made arrangements to airlift Jamaicans out of Haiti starting with two Air Jamaica special flights out of Port-au-Prince tomorrow (Jan 15). The first flight is scheduled to leave Port-au-Prince at 5:30am (Jan 15). The second Air Jamaica flight will leave at 12:00 noon tomorrow (Jan 15). Minister with responsibility for Information, Hon. Daryl Vaz, who accompanied Prime...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, has appointed a new 5-member board at Air Jamaica, consequent on the expiration of the term of the previous board. The new board will oversee the transitional arrangements and legacy issues surrounding the divestment of the airline, which is expected to be completed by the end of the week. The...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising that flood rains in the parish of St. Ann between January 9 and 11, 2010 have caused major damage to the Lime Hall main road. A section of the road embankment, between Mile Posts 43 and 45 in an area know as Clamstead, has broken away, reducing this section of the corridor to...

Jamaica has no immediate plans to implement the use of the millimeter wave machine, used for electronic body scanning, at the nation's airports. Director of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Darby, told JIS News that while the machine is very useful, "we don't know as yet the extent to which it can be operated in our...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is looking into the possibility of using the red mud derived from alumina production in the construction of roads across the island. Engineer in charge of materials and soil research at the NWA, Vivian Blair, told JIS News in an interview that the agency has already gone through one aspect of the research process working...

The National Works Agency (NWA) has completed construction of the $169 million (US$1.9 million) Fairfield Bridge in St. James. The new bridge, which can accommodate two lanes of traffic, replaces the single lane structure, which previously served the area. It sits on piles with a concrete abutment, and is equipped with sidewalks, guardrails, and other safety measures. Completion of the...

There should be some easing of traffic congestion in the town of Old Harbour, St. Catherine, with the commissioning into service of new traffic signals in the town square today (Jan. 7). Minister of Transport and Works, Hon. Mike Henry, in his remarks at the function, which also included the official opening of the Gutters to Free Town main road,...

Minister of Transport and Works, Hon. Mike Henry, says preliminary investigations into the December 22 accident involving American Airlines flight 331, at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) in Kingston, have indicated no mechanical malfunctioning of the aircraft. Mr. Henry was speaking to journalists on Wednesday (January 6), at the weekly Post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the Prime...