Minister of Water and Housing, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, on Friday (April 16) commissioned the Parottee well in St. Elizabeth into service, which will serve some 2,500 persons in the...

Residents of the Norwich/Boundbrook community in Portland are currently benefitting from an improved water supply, as a result of the upgrading and expansion of the supply system serving that community....

The Government has committed billions of dollars to the water sector as it looks to develop the island's water resources and improve on existing infrastructure. Minister of Water and Housing,...

Water and Housing Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, has given the assurance of an increase in the supply of water to communities in the Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA), currently experiencing...

The Water Resources Authority (WRA) and the University of the West Indies (UWI), this morning (April 8), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve knowledge of water resources in...

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is examining legislation and guidelines to see how it can bring private water truck operators under its remit. The move comes as the public,...

The Water Programme for Environment Sustainability Project (WPA) has received an allocation of $5.5 million in the 2010/11 Estimates of Expenditures now before the House of Representatives. This project was...

The National Land Agency (NLA) continues to justify its position of being accorded executive agency status as part of the Government's Public Sector Modernisation Programme. For the last two consecutive...

The Government has allocated $321 million for construction and renovation of three juvenile correctional institutions, in line with a commitment given by Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding, to improve the...

The Ministry of Water and Housing estimates that it will achieve some $398.8 million in capital recoveries for the 2010/2011 fiscal year under the Housing Fund. As outlined in the...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has explained that the current state of some of its buses on the roads is primarily due to the drought conditions, and the consequent...