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NWA intensify activities in preparation for new school year; help line launched to support persons with mental health issues; and JCF renovates Salt Spring Primary and Infant School in St. James.

Prime Minister to holds talks with NWA on road works ahead of new school year; high schools to be twinned under new initiative; and more technology parks to be established.

BOJ policy interest rate reduced, Over 1500 new nursing posts being created; and schools being fogged to prevent outbreaks of mosquito borne illnesses.

Government to upgrade ICT infrastructure in schools; procurement guidelines being upgraded; and Justices of the Peace encouraged to mentor youth in Child Diversion Programme.

Economy projected to grow 1.5 percent in next quarter; access to water to improve in St. Thomas and Portland; and infant and primary school teachers to receive computers.

South Coast Highway Improvement Project to begin September; Economy grows by 1 percent; and Jamaicans urged to boost IT skills.

Education Ministry to conduct water shortage assessment for schools; irrigation system proposed for Flagaman, St. Elizabeth; and traffic restrictions coming for Junction roadway in St. Mary.

Review of Bank of Jamaica legislation far advanced; traffic restrictions to be implemented on Constant Spring Road and Government building infrastructure to last.

New housing policy to bolster water security effort; Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities to become body corporate; and public urged to assist efforts to help the hearing impaired children.

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, has instructed schools not to charge more than 5,000 dollars for registration packages for the upcoming academic year. This is keeping with the Ministry’s call for schools to ensure education remains accessible and affordable for all.

The Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) to extend the domestic monitoring of the Economic Reform Programme. The MOU will see EPOC continuing in its monitoring role beyond the end of Jamaica’s Precautionary Standby arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). That arrangement concludes in November this year.

Several bridges to be repaired; draft National Spatial Plan to be completed by December: and members of the public encouraged to get hearing assessments as part of regular medical check-ups.