A sum of $26 million has been spent by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) to repair 11.34 kilometres of rural roads in Clarendon over the last year. The roads...
Minister of Transport and Works, Robert Pickersgill signed a US$17.75 million five-year Facility Fee Agreement today (Feb. 5) with the Port Authority of Jamaica and Carnival Cruise Lines, which will...
Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has named a fourteen-member Task Force to conduct a review and initiate a transformation of the country's education sector. The Task Force which was launched at...
The Inter-American Development Bank in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) yesterday (Feb. 3) presented a civil society group report of Jamaica's progress in the implementation of the...
Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has described the CARICOM/Haiti talks held on the weekend as successful, adding that the meeting had achieved the outcome for which it was intended. Speaking at...
Government has no intention of introducing a State of Emergency as a means of quelling crime and violence. Speaking at the opening of the Commonwealth Workshop on Human Rights Defenders...
Deputy Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Kevin Rushing has emphasised the need for the preservation of Portland's beauty, heritage and culture in the implementation of...
The Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA) for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are not just abstract concepts developed by environmental and social scientists in...
Following closely on the heels of a recent project involving the completion of a new classroom block and computer laboratory at the Sandy Bank Primary School in St. Elizabeth, the...
The Government through a Special Housing Programme will be constructing some 1,000 housing units and carrying out repairs to 10,000 housing structures across 60 constituencies in the island. Minister of...
A Bill entitled 'An Act to Repeal and Replace the Companies Act' was passed in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (Feb. 3) with 21 amendments. The Bill, piloted during...