Government is to acquire several properties as it moves to regularise the land occupation of 330 residents of informal settlements across the island. The properties are to be acquired under...

The Government has been provided with US$125,000 by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) to implement the second phase of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP). An initiative...

The design phase of a national geo-database on squatting has been completed as the Government continues its work to address the issue of illegal land occupation across the country. The...

Regional Operations Manager at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Eifert Daley, is appealing to citizens in western Jamaica to be more responsible in their waste disposal practices. Mr....

The Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing has been carrying out a number of infrastructure projects to upgrade and regularise settlements, in order to alleviate the problem of illegal land...

The Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing will be working with the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) to achieve its target of distributing approximately 3,500 registered titles to landowners, during...

The Government, in the last fiscal year, provided 55 housing solutions at a cost of $31 million under its Infill Housing Programme, which seeks to upgrade existing housing schemes and...

The Government is seeking to make the roadways safer for the traveling public, through changes to the Road Traffic Act, which will establish a number of new penalties and rules,...