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Approximately $225 million has been set aside in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure to fund a programme to rehabilitate and reintegrate local offenders and deported persons. The programme aims to significantly improve the reintegration into Jamaican society of nationals who have been deported from the United Kingdom, after completing prison sentences. It is also aims at building the capacity of...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) will be spending some $1.05 billion this fiscal year to implement infrastructure development projects and provide basic social services in a number of communities. The money has been provided in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. As stated in the document, the financing will go towards the...

Twelve new Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses have been damaged in various acts of aggression, mostly stoning, since 50 new units were incorporated into the company's fleet in mid-February. Six of the units were damaged by stones in Portmore, St. Catherine, where 12 of the older JUTC buses were also stoned during the period under reference. The stoning took...

Work will be undertaken this year to construct and install three weigh stations at locations in Kingston, Trelawny and St. Mary under the Commercial Vehicle Safety and Weight Limit Enforcement Programme. A total of $100 million has been allocated to the programme in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, which is being considered by the Standing Finance Committee of the House...

A provision of $242 million has been allocated for the Transportation Infrastructure Rehabilitation Programme in the Ministry of Transport and Works, in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure. The project, which is being financed by the Inter American Development Bank (IDB), aims at undertaking rehabilitation of essential portions of the main road systems, ensuring physical continuity of the primary road network...

The Hurricane Dean Rehabilitation project of the Ministry of Transport and Works, has received a boost of $250 million in the Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. Funded by the Caribbean Development Bank, the objective of the project is to complete the rehabilitation works and undertake 90 per cent of the sea defence works along the Palisadoes...

A total of $479 million has been set aside for road rehabilitation projects being undertaken by the Ministry of Transport and Works. The Road Rehabilitation Project II has received $300 million for the upgrading of selected roads in the parishes of Clarendon, Manchester and Westmoreland. As contained in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives, the...

A sum of $22.94 million has been allocated to the Planning Model Development and National Development Plan, 'T21', in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which is being implemented by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), aims to prepare a long-term national development plan, along with 31 sector plans, which would result in...

The National Disaster Management-Tropical Storm Gustav Rehabilitation Works has been further aided with the allocation of $1.2 billion. This is contained in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. Funded by the Caribbean Development Bank and the Government of Jamaica, the main objective of this project, which started in October 2008, is to rehabilitate, restore and...

Jamaicans in the United Kingdom (UK) have started a lobby, in support of the call for the UK Government to review its plans to increase the Air Passenger Duty (APD). The Jamaica Diaspora Movement is sending out letters to British Members of Parliament (MPs), requesting that the UK authorities reconsider its position, given the damage that the APD will cause...

The Transport Authority has stepped up its monitoring and regulatory activities over the last few months to clamp down on illegal operators in the public transport system. The Authority's Managing Director, Daniel Dawes speaking at a press conference held today (April 2) at the Ministry of Transport and Works' Maxfield Avenue office, said that more than 57 regulatory operations have...

The management of the Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre has banned the public display or waving of school flags in the facility, during this weekend's Boys' and Girls' Championships at the National Stadium, in the interest of the safety and comfort of commuters using the facility. The Ministry of Transport and Works has sanctioned the decision, which it regards as regrettable, but...