A total of 120 government facilities, including 50 public buildings, will be retrofitted with energy efficient lighting during the new financial year. The work will be done under the Energy Management and Efficiency Programme (EMEP), which has been allocated $713.3 million in the 2024/25 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Being implemented by the Ministry of Science,...

Another request for a proposal for a further 168 megawatts of renewable energy will be launched in the new financial year, which begins on April 1. This is in addition to the supply of up to 100 megawatts of electricity generation, for which the Generation Procurement Entity invited tenders last September. The disclosure was made by Governor-General, His Excellency the...

In the new financial year, the Public Passenger Transport Stakeholder Committee will begin to address the provision of transportation for rural students. This was noted by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, while delivering the Throne Speech during the 2024/25 Ceremonial Opening of Parliament at Gordon House, on Thursday (February 15). “A Rural Student Transportation System will...

The inaugural InterCaribbean Airways flight from Bridgetown, Barbados, touched down at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Tuesday night (February 6). Bridgetown, the Southern Caribbean hub for InterCaribbean, will operate non-stop flights to Kingston on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with return flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Beginning April 1, commuters who use a Smartercard to pay their fares on the State-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses will benefit from a 50 per cent reduction in fares. Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Hon. Daryl Vaz, made the disclosure in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (January 30). He said that a Cabinet note is...

Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Hon Daryl Vaz, says the Falmouth Transportation Centre in Trelawny is an example of an organised facility that could serve as a template for other towns across Jamaica. Speaking to reporters, local officials, and other stakeholders following a tour of the Centre on January 26, Minister Vaz said that the people of Jamaica...

The first set of 100 compressed natural gas (CNG)-fuelled buses for the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) are expected to arrive in time for the start of the 2024/25 academic year in September. This batch forms part of the 300 mixed-energy buses that the Government will be acquiring over the next three years to boost the State-run JUTC’s fleet and...