More

The Palisadoes Shoreline and Road Project is slated to be completed in December. The Government has allocated $8 million for the final stage of works. The funds are contained in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. Initiated in July 2010, the Palisadoes project aims is to address the flooding of the road corridor, while also...

The Rural Road Rehabilitation Project II has been allocated $830 million in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure. The project, which got underway in 2008, seeks to rehabilitate approximately 47 kilometres of roads in the parishes of Trelawny, Clarendon, and Manchester in order to facilitate socio-economic development and integration of the three parishes. The roads include the 16-kilometre stretch from Stettin...

The Research and Development Plant Health laboratory at the Bodles Agricultural Research Station, in St. Catherine, is to be refurbished this fiscal year, with an allocation of $465.7 million. To be disbursed under the Agricultural Competitiveness Programme, the money, which is  contained in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, will also be used to refurbish quarantine facilities at two Veterinary Services Division...

A Road Rehabilitation Project has received $101.97 million in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, through the Kuwaiti Fund for Development. As outlined, the project seeks to contribute to the economic development of Jamaica by improving approximately 57 kilometres of road network to support agricultural, industrial and tourism activities in the parish of St. Mary, St. Ann and Westmoreland. The following...

The Government has allocated $6.97 billion in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure towards the funding of the Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP). The programme seeks to continue the improvement of the island’s road network in order to enhance the quality of life of the citizens of Jamaica, and to stimulate economic development. For the current fiscal year, the project seeks...

The Government has allocated $200 million to the Basic Needs Trust Fund project, to reduce vulnerability through enhanced access to basic and social infrastructure. This is contained in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project will see to the expansion and rehabilitation of the Port Antonio Primary School, the Black River Primary School and...

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...

Several new housing projects are to begin across the island this fiscal year, as the Administration moves to provide affordable solutions for citizens. Among them will be the construction of 200 studio housing units, priced at $4 million to $5 million at Shooter’s Hill in Portmore, St. Catherine. This was disclosed by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen,...

China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) will begin the construction of its regional headquarters in New Kingston later this year, signalling its confidence in Jamaica and its intent to remain in the region and to continue to invest in the country. Vice President of CCCC, Ziyu Sun, made the disclosure in an interview with JIS News, shortly after the official opening...

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...