The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management's (ODPEM) efforts at building disaster resilient communities will be supported with a $31.3 million provision in the 2010/11 Estimates of Expenditure currently...

The 25 residents of the Manchester-based Mount Olivet Boys' Home have been inspired to pursue a more meaningful future. More than 23 staff members at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS),...

A sum of $1.8 million has been allocated to the Carib-HYCOS Project, which is being executed by the Water Resources Authority. Funded by the Government and the European Union (EU),...

The small ruminant industry has received a total of $50.1 million in the Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. This will be spent under the...

Solicitor General, Douglas Leys Q.C. has expressed the view that there is need for a CARICOM Regional Insolvency Pact, which would ensure greater creditability and elements of certainty in the...

The Micro, Small and Medium-size Enterprises (MSME) Alliance is to receive $500,000 in budget support, as the Government continues to provide assistance for the sector. Minister of Industry, Investment and...

Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunication and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has noted that three of the Haitians who arrived in Portland on March 23, were prisoners when the...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, has said that the Government is looking into a bank insolvency law for Jamaica, which will clearly define how and...

A sum of $14.9 million has been earmarked in the 2010/11 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives, for the Planning Institute of Jamaica's (PIOJ) Strategic Flexible Funding...

The Government is spending an additional $109.4 million this year on the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Project in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), which is scheduled to...

The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) and the Mount Olivet Boys' Home in Manchester are set to deepen their relationship with the addition of a mentorship programme, carried out by the...