A sum of $27.3 million has been allocated to Poor Relief Services in the 2008/09 financial year, up from the $18.984 million it received in the 2007/08 budget, according to...

A budget of $179 million has been allocated to complete projects under the Rural Water Supply Project in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Implemented...

The fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS has received an additional boost, as the AIDS/STD Programme implemented by the Ministry of Health and the Environment, has received $46.5 million. This...

The Duke of Edinburgh Award Programme, which has been operating in Jamaica since 1961, has been moulding the character of thousands of Jamaicans for over 40 years. Director of the...

The Hurricane Dean Rehabilitation project has received $981.55 million for the 2008/2009 financial year. This is outlined in the Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives....

The Ministry of Transport and Works has been allocated $900 million to fund the Emergency Assistance for Hurricane. As revealed in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure which is now before...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) will, during the 2008/09 fiscal year, receive $1.17 billion to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable groups in the country. As outlined...

A sum of $3.09 million has been allocated in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure to the Natural Hazard Management in Urban Coastal Areas project, to strengthen disaster risk management in...

The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) has been allocated $63 million in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, for the purchase of equipment and furniture. This...

Transport and Works Minister, Mike Henry, has called on the United Nations General Assembly to foster the establishment of a Global Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, to help keep down road...

The Ministry of Justice, in association with the Justice Training Institute, yesterday (March 31), launched the Commonwealth Project on Capacity Building in Combating Terrorism, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in...