Cabinet has approved Jamaica's accession to the Second Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. Minister...

KINGSTON — The Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Local Offenders Deported Persons programme has received more support with an allocation of $80 million in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure, now before...

KINGSTON — Activities under the Public Sector Modernisation Programme (PSMP) II should be significantly enhanced this year through a $4.6 billion provision, set aside in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure,...

KINGSTON — Jamaica's effort to increase and sustain production of high quality marine products is being enhanced through a $138 million allocation to the Improving Jamaica’s Agricultural Productivity Project (Marine/Environment)....

KINGSTON — Some $21 million has been allotted to the Animal Breeding and Husbandry project in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. The project is...

KINGSTON — The Youth Development Programme, which facilitates the transition of unattached youth to adulthood and the world of work, through training, on the job experience, information dissemination, labour intermediation...

KINGSTON — The Government will continue to collaborate with the United Nation’s International Children’s Educational Fund (UNICEF) to increase youth access to quality information, skills and services to reduce the...

KINGSTON — To achieve an effective transition to a sustainable sugar cane industry, the Government has allocated just over $2 billion for the Sugar Transformation Project in the 2011/12 Estimates...

KINGSTON — The Jamaica Economical Housing Project has received $1.5 billion in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure to upgrade infrastructure (water, sewerage and roads) in the rural communities of St....

KINGSTON — A sum of $46.85 million has been allocated in the 2011/12 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, to...

KINGSTON — The Government has earmarked $24.3 million for the development of a comprehensive multi-hazard disaster management plan for towns and cities under the Natural Hazard Management in Urban Coastal...