Montego Bay Metro Limited’s (MBM) operations will be restructured this year in order to satisfy increasing commuter demand on routes in western Jamaica over the medium-term. As stated in the 2019/20 Public Bodies Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, the restructuring will facilitate better scheduling of the entity’s fleet and expansion of service to other satellite communities within the parishes of...

Jamaica Ultimate Tyre Company Limited (JU Tyre) is looking to introduce new products and services in order to improve its operations. As stated in the 2019/20 Public Bodies Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, the company intends to modernise and retool its plant to boost efficiency and productivity, and provide a reliable, competitive and cost-effective source of new and retreaded tyres,...

Approximately $1.36 billion is budgeted for capital works at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) in Kingston by the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ), during the current fiscal year. According to the 2019/20 Jamaica Public Bodies Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, this forms part of the AAJ’s execution of a 20-year capital development programme at the facility, which is slated...

The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) is financing five major projects from its 2019/20 capital budget of approximately $4.39 billion. These, according to the 2019/20 Jamaica Public Bodies Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, are the Port Royal Cruise Port; Logistics Development; Business Process Outsourcing (BPO); the Port Community Systems (PCS); and the Kingston Container Terminal (KCT) Quay Wall, and Falmouth...

Cabinet has approved the award of a contract in the amount of J$62.987 million to Chin’s Construction Limited to undertake road rehabilitation and drainage improvement works along John Golding Road in St. Andrew. This is contained in a Ministry Paper on Cabinet agenda issues, which was tabled in the House of Representatives recently. The document noted that heavy rains in...

The tender process for the local component of construction works under the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project (SCHIP) is slated to begin shortly. Prime Minister, the Most Hon Andrew Holness, made the disclosure during his presentation in the 2019/20 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 19. SCHIP is part of the Government’s strategic development plan for the...

The Government is to pursue opportunities for competitive sources of financing, to undertake a proposed third infrastructure development programme to significantly improve aspects of Jamaica’s transportation network. This would be the potential successor to the soon to be concluded Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP). This was disclosed by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, during his contribution to the...