A total of $459.8 million is to be spent this financial year on a project to expand and rehabilitate eight schools, and to complete rehabilitation of three roads and two...

Two of the island’s correctional facilities are slated to be improved this fiscal year through a $253 million allocation to the Construction and Improvement of Correctional Facilities project, in the...

A sum of $50.2 million has been allocated to the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project aims...

The Government has set aside a sum of $93 million for this year’s continuation of projects under the Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP) III. Details of the project are outlined in...

Work is to continue on the development of an Energy Services Company (ESCO) Industry in Jamaica with a further budgetary allocation of $2.1 million this fiscal year. The funds have...

The Government has allocated more than $26 million to strengthen Jamaica’s health systems, through the development of a 10-year Strategic Development Plan for the sector. This is contained in the...

The Government has allocated $250 million to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) for the procurement of new garbage trucks. The sum is part of $255 million provided to...

Formulation of the national plan on migration will be advanced this fiscal year through an allotment of $26.3 million in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of...

The Government has allocated $34 million to undertake work at the Portmore Hagen Climate Change Park in St. Catherine. As outlined in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the...

Construction of new offices downtown Kingston to house the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is expected to get underway this fiscal year. A sum of $666 million has...

A sum of $145.58 million has been allocated to the Justice, Security, Accountability and Transparency (JSAT) project in the 2016/17 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. The...