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Reverend Canon Sirrano Kitson (left), anoints Principal Director, Mining/Minerals Policy Planning and Development, Dr. Oral Rainford (centre); and Commissioner of Mines and Geology, Roy Nicholson, at St. Andrew Parish Church in Kingston, during the 160th Anniversary Service of the Ministry of Transport and Mining’s Mines and Geology Division, on Sunday (March 31).
Reverend Canon Sirrano Kitson (left), anoints Principal Director, Mining/Minerals Policy Planning and Development, Dr. Oral Rainford (centre); and Commissioner of Mines and Geology, Roy Nicholson, at St. Andrew Parish Church in Kingston, during the 160th Anniversary Service of the Ministry of Transport and Mining’s Mines and Geology Division, on Sunday (March 31).

PHOTOS: Mines and Geology 160th Anniversary Service

  Commissioner of Mines and Geology, Roy Nicholson (right), accepts a token from Reverend Canon Sirrano Kitson at St. Andrew Parish Church in Kingston, during the 160th Anniversary Service for the Ministry of Transport and Mining’s Mines and Geology Division,...
Executive Director of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), Paula Fletcher.
Executive Director of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), Paula Fletcher.

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(FILE) Work in progress along a section of the Mandela Highway. This forms part of the US$64-million Mandela Highway Realignment and Reconstruction Project, which involves road construction works comprising extensive soft soil treatment, construction of a 3.5 km six-lane corridor, with a two-lane overpass bridge, two new three-lane bridges at Fresh River, a two-lane service road adjacent to the main roadway to facilitate the development of Caymanas Estate and upgrading of the Six Miles Interchange.
(FILE) Work in progress along a section of the Mandela Highway. This forms part of the US$64-million Mandela Highway Realignment and Reconstruction Project, which involves road construction works comprising extensive soft soil treatment, construction of a 3.5 km six-lane corridor, with a two-lane overpass bridge, two new three-lane bridges at Fresh River, a two-lane service road adjacent to the main roadway to facilitate the development of Caymanas Estate and upgrading of the Six Miles Interchange.

Mandela Highway Upgrade 90% Complete
Director General of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, Rear Admiral (Ret’d) Peter Brady (right), with Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague (centre); and Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Kitack Lim; at the High Level Symposium for Transport Ministers of the Caribbean Region, held recently at the Iberostar Hotel in Rose Hall, St. James.
Director General of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, Rear Admiral (Ret’d) Peter Brady (right), with Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague (centre); and Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Kitack Lim; at the High Level Symposium for Transport Ministers of the Caribbean Region, held recently at the Iberostar Hotel in Rose Hall, St. James.

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Budget 2019/2020Transport

Government Explores Successor to MIDP

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Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague (left), converses with Senior Director in the Ministry with responsibility for Transport Policy (International and Land), Tanya Bedward (right); and Chief Technical Director, Dr. Janice Dawkins. Occasion was the final of a series of consultations for the National Transport Policy (NTP), held on Wednesday (March 13), at The Knutford Court Hotel in St. Andrew.
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Minister Montague Says Domestic Airline A Priority

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Bauxite Community Development Programme Project Coordinator at the Jamaica Bauxite Institute, Clarence Osbourne, addresses a JIS ‘Think Tank’, on March 12.
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Director of Economics at the Caribbean Development Bank (CBD), Dr. Justin Ram, addresses the High Level Symposium for Transport Ministers of the Caribbean Region, held recently at the Iberostar Hotel in Rose Hall, St. James.
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CDB Official Hails Jamaica Junior Market as Model for Financing Blue Economy

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Chief Executive Officer of the Port Authority of Jamaica, Professor Gordon Shirley (left); and Senior Advisor/Strategist in the Ministry of Tourism, Delano Seiveright (centre), converse with Chief Executive Officer of Royal Caribbean International, Michael Bayley, during a meeting in Kingston last week.
TourismTransport

Ian Fleming Airport Expansion Deemed Pivotal to Tourism Growth

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