The Government has allotted $202.5 million to a School Sanitation project, being implemented through the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). This allocation is contained in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project has as its objective the replacement of pit latrines with flush toilets, in order to reduce the contamination of underground water and...

A total of $459.8 million is to be spent this financial year on a project to expand and rehabilitate eight schools, and to complete rehabilitation of three roads and two water supply systems. Titled the Basic Needs Trust Fund (Seven), the project is contained in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which began...

The infrastructure of several early childhood, primary and special needs schools across the island are to be upgraded over the next five years at a cost of $15 million, donated by Guardian General Insurance Jamaica Limited. The project, which is entitled: ‘$15 million over 5 years’, was officially launched at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston on February 11. In...

Effective tomorrow, Saturday, February 12, 2016, the Forum Bridge in Portmore, St. Catherine will be reopened. The bridge which was closed in November 2015 in order to facilitate structural repairs is being re-opened a week ahead of schedule. The Forum Bridge is located along Port Henderson Road, which is also referred to as “Back Road”. The road has been opened...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller on Tuesday (February 2) signed six contracts with a combined value of $182 million for the rehabilitation of 22 farm roads across Jamaica. Speaking at the National Farm Roads Rehabilitation Programme contract signing held at Jamaica House, Mrs. Simpson Miller noted that the programme is consistent with the development priorities of the...

Effective tomorrow (Friday, January 29), a section of the Negril main road, in Westmoreland, will be closed to vehicular traffic until further notice. Community Relations Officer for the National Works Agency (NWA), Western Region, Janel Ricketts, told JIS News that the closure is to facilitate pipe laying activities associated with the multimillion dollar rehabilitation project, which is now underway along the Negril...

The St. James Parish Council is undertaking work to upgrade and beautify sidewalks along two major thoroughfares in Montego Bay. The Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) has provided $13 million for the project. The upgrading work is being done along St. James and Barnett Streets to include Sam Sharpe Square, the City Centre area, St. James Parish Library grounds, the historic...