A Government team is monitoring the United States-based mining entity, Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation (NAHC), that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. NAHC is the parent company of St. Ann-based...

The Government is to construct a banana and plantain processing plant at the All Island Banana Growers Association’s (AIBGA) premises at Trinity in St. Mary. Some $143 million has been...

A sum of $798.7 million has been allocated to carry out infrastructural works to several office buildings of agencies of the Ministry of Finance and Planning. The money has been...

The Ministry of Finance and Planning will carry on with the implementation of the Caribbean Criminal Asset Recovery Programme (CCARP), for which a sum of $10.2 million has been allocated...

The Palisadoes Shoreline and Road Project is slated to be completed in December. The Government has allocated $8 million for the final stage of works. The funds are contained in...

The Rural Road Rehabilitation Project II has been allocated $830 million in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure. The project, which got underway in 2008, seeks to rehabilitate approximately 47 kilometres...

Contingency funding of $550 million has been allocated for weather related risks in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure. To be used specifically for natural disasters and infrastructure rehabilitation, this allocation...

A sum of $1.6 billion has been allocated in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives, towards the continuation of the Integrated Support to the Jamaica...

Fishing communities across the island are to receive additional support in building resilience against climate change. This is through an allotment of $12.9 million to the Promoting Community-based Climate Resilience...

A total of $200 million will be spent this fiscal year to continue construction and improvement work, at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Lathbury Barracks, at Up Park Camp. This...

A total of $3 million has been allocated to the Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Local Offender and Deported Persons Programme, to complete outstanding payment activities. As outlined in the 2016/17...