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Director of Lands and Administrator of the Bauxite Community Development Programme at the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), Dr. Diane Gordon, speaks with Chairman of the Content Farmers Cluster in the JSIF/JBI Water Harvesting and Greenhouse Cluster Project, Errol Williams, on a recent tour of the Manchester-based facility.

JBI to Launch Scholarship Programme

The Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) is to launch scholarships for young persons in its greenhouse cluster areas, called the JBI/Alcan Rio Tinto Legacy Fund Scholarship Programme. The programme was created to facilitate sustainability for the JSIF/JBI Water Harvesting and Greenhouse...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, delivers the 2019/20 Throne Speech under the theme ‘In Partnership towards the New Prosperous Jamaica’, at the Ceremonial Opening of Parliament, on February 14.

First Phase Privatisation of Rail Service to Begin 2019/20

Orthopaedic Surgeon at the St. Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital, Dr. Cary Fletcher, addresses a JIS Think Tank on Tuesday (February 12).

Surgeon Highlights Need for Bikers to Wear Lower-Limb Protective Gear

Transport and Mining Minister, Hon. Robert Montague.

Drivers of Public Transport Required to Wear Uniforms Come April 1

Transport and Mining Minister, Hon. Robert Montague (left), converses with General Manager, Operations, Transport Authority, Audley Carter. Occasion was a Transport Stakeholders Conference at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston on Thursday (February 7).

Suspension of PPV Licence for Persons with Multiple Outstanding Traffic Tickets

7 years ago Budget 2019/2020Transport

$500,000 Allocated for Transport Repository

The Government has set aside $500,000 to develop a national repository in the Ministry of Transport and Mining. The trifold repository will comprise the Transport Statistics Database, Transport Research Databank, and the Geographic Information System (GIS) database. Funding for the undertaking has been made available in the 2019/2020 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives on...

Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague, delivers a statement in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (February 5). Listening are Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (left); and Minister without Portfolio in the Finance and the Public Service Ministry, Hon. Fayval Williams.

7 years ago SenateTransport

US Lifts Sanctions on Windalco Parent Company

The United States (US) Government has lifted the sanctions on Windalco parent company, UC Rusal, effective January 27, 2019. This was disclosed by Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague, during a statement to the House of Representatives on Tuesday (February 5). He noted that US President, Donald Trump, had indicated his intention to lift the sanctions in December...

Transport and Mining Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, addresses members of Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS) during a meeting on Thursday (January 31), at the Ministry’s Maxfield Avenue offices in Kingston.

7 years ago Transport

Gov’t Moving to Regularise Illegal Taxi Operators

Transport and Mining Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, says the Government is moving to regularise the “robot” taxi industry by encouraging operators to register as a company with the Transport Authority (TA). “We are offering them the opportunity to become formalised, so we are freeing up the licence,” he said at a meeting with members of Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services...

Work in progress in the vicinity of the Six Miles Bridge to facilitate the diversion of eastbound traffic starting this weekend. 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.

7 years ago Transport

PHOTOS: Mandela Highway Realignment and Reconstruction Project

Work underway at the Six Miles Bridge to facilitate the diversion of eastbound traffic starting this weekend. 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...

Transport and Mining Minister, Hon. Robert Montague (left), receives the 2019 Road Safety Road Star and Developmental Training Plan from General Secretary/Chair of the Road Safety Committee for the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), Dian Dennis, during a meeting with members of TODSS on Thursday (January 31), at the Ministry, in Kingston.

7 years ago Transport

Registry for Taxi Operators

Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague, says the Transport Authority (TA), in collaboration with several national taxi associations and insurance companies, is developing a registry for taxi operators. In a meeting with members of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), on January 31, at the Ministry, in Kingston, the Minister said the registry will contain data collected...

Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague (second right), and Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. JC Hutchinson (fourth right), officially open the New Market Road in St. Elizabeth on Wednesday (January 30). Sharing in the occasion (from left) are: Councillor for the Lacovia Division of the St. Elizabeth Municipal Corporation, George Powell; Councillor of the New Market Division, Richard Solomon, and students of the Happy Grove and Beersheba Primary Schools in the parish.

7 years ago Transport

Newmarket Road in St. Elizabeth Opened

The Newmarket Road in St. Elizabeth, which will reduce travel time between that parish and Montego Bay by at least one hour, was officially opened on Wednesday (Jan. 30) by Transport and Mining Minister, Hon. Robert Montague. Speaking at a ceremony in Newmarket Square, Mr. Montague urged the residents to maintain the road, noting that it is in their interest...

(FILE)Communication and Customer Services Manager at the National Works Agency (NWA), Stephen Shaw.

7 years ago Transport

Work on Passagefort Drive-Dyke Road Intersection 80% Complete

Work on the intersection of Passagefort Drive and the Dyke Road in Portmore, St. Catherine, is now 80 per cent complete. This was disclosed by Manager, Communication and Customer Services, at the National Works Agency (NWA), Stephen Shaw, during an interview with JIS News. “The main structure has been completed. We are now putting on the wing walls and once...