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The Banana Support Project in the Ministry of Agriculture has been allocated $306.9 million in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. The project, which is funded by the Government and the European Union (EU), seeks to promote sustainable development in the traditional banana growing areas of Jamaica. Under the Banana Improvement Programme, several contracts have...

Social development will be further boosted with an allocation of $200 million to the Social Development Commission, as outlined in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The Social Development Commission is charged with creating and deepening mechanisms for the involvement of civil society in the management of their affairs at the community and national level....

The Northern Jamaica Development Project has been allocated $2.6 billion, according to the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. According to the Estimates, the project seeks to improve infrastructure in tourism centres, on the northern coast of Jamaica. Physical achievements up to March 2008 included 100 per cent construction of road surface in Negril and Montego...

The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has been allocated a total of $56.2 million in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Of the sum, $6.4 million will be used for conducting training seminars and to cover related expenses. A wide variety of programmes are offered through this training activity, which can be customized to suit...

A sum of $485 million has been allocated for road rehabilitation in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. The project seeks to upgrade the road network through rehabilitation of 47 kilometres of road sections in areas, such as Ferris Cross to Mackfield in Westmoreland; Alexandria to Brown's Town in St. Ann; Tom's River...

A sum of $470.3 million has been allocated to the Washington Boulevard Corridor Widening project. This is outlined in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which is funded by the Government and the Caribbean Development Bank, seeks to enhance productivity by reducing the economic loss to the country when people are stranded in...

The Road Rehabilitation Project 2, has been allocated some $167.9 million in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which is funded by the Government and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), seeks to rehabilitate 97 kilometres of road structures in areas, such as Smithfield Bridge to Scotts Cove in Westmoreland; Sour Sop...

The Youth Development Programme has been allocated a sum of $38.6 million in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Of the sum, $28 million will go towards the Operation Phoenix Programme, to complete refurbishing works at Youth Information Centres across the island. This will include the furnishing of the Information Centre in Montego Bay, St....

Agriculture Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton has said that Jamaican and regional entrepreneurs must position and brand themselves as significant business players, to maintain viability and sustainability in the global marketplace. Speaking at the launch of the Caribbean AgriBusiness Association (CABA)/Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) project at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston on March 31, Dr. Tufton noted that Caribbean states...

National Literacy Co-ordinator, Laurel Brent-Harris is confident that with the Ministry of Education introducing the right resources, programmes, and intervention strategies, more students will master the Grade 4 Literacy Test. Addressing a JIS 'Think Tank' recently, on the subject of the Ministry's new literacy thrust, which is aimed at propelling Jamaica towards achieving 85 per cent literacy by 2015, the...

National Literacy Co-ordinator, Laurel Brent-Harris is confident that with the Ministry of Education introducing the right resources, programmes, and intervention strategies, more students will master the Grade 4 Literacy Test. Addressing a JIS 'Think Tank' recently, on the subject of the Ministry's new literacy thrust, which is aimed at propelling Jamaica towards achieving 85 per cent literacy by 2015, the...

The island's inaugural Greenhouse Technology Symposium was hosted by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) and the Caribbean Agri-Business Association (CABA), yesterday (March 31), under the theme, 'Getting it Right.' State Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, J.C. Hutchinson, in his presentation on: 'The Ministry's role in facilitating greenhouse production in Jamaica,' said that the technology was being targeted as...