GOJ Minute 1 January 30

The National Works Agency is reporting that work on the Mandela highway Improvement project is over 98 percent complete.

The British government has set up a Compensation Scheme for persons affected by the Home Office’s mistaken classification of thousands of long-term British residents as illegal immigrants, commonly known as the Windrush Scandal.

Jamaica welcomed close to nine hundred thousand stopover arrivals during the winter tourist season, which runs from December to April; the largest number of visitors in Jamaica’s history.

The Land Administration and Management Division and the Adjudication Services Division have been established at the National Land Agency to continue the titling of land under the Registration of Titles Act.

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. Nigel Clarke, says government expenditure on social programmes has “more than doubled” over the last five years.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has launched the 8th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference under the theme: “Jamaica & the Diaspora: Building Pathways For Sustainable Development”.