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Clarke to table new budget as Parliament opens today

Holness promises goodies for Trelawny

The 63 Members of Parliament (MPs) will each be allocated a minimum of $150 million under the Government’s ambitious $40 billion SPARK programme to rehabilitate the country’s creaking road network. Remaining amounts will be allocated to each constituency depending on the volume of the road network to be repaired to ensure fairness, while an amount will be reserved by the Government to address roads that may not have been considered...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that approximately $150 million will be allocated to each constituency under the $40-billion Shared Prosperity through Accelerated Improvement to our Road Network (SPARK) Programme to modernise secondary...

$10 billion for major road work project

ST JAMES, Jamaica - Work on the rehabilitation of the 2.2-kilometre Holland to Bounty Hall road in Trelawny is scheduled to get underway shortly following the breaking of ground last Thursday. To be executed over a five-month period at a cost of $144.7 million, the scope of works will include demolition and site clearance, construction of sidewalks, drainage features including a box culvert, pavement works and more. It is the...

CHAIRMAN Robert Montague emerged from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Central Executive Committee meeting on Sunday saying that the 80-year-old political organisation is now in "full election mode"...

WESTERN BUREAU: EXPRESSING CONCERNS about poor road conditions in the constituency of St James East Central, Opposition Leader Mark Golding says it will take the entire budget of the government’s newly launched road programme to address the...

ST JAMES, Jamaica — Mark Golding, the President of the People's National Party (PNP), has mocked Member of Parliament Edmund Bartlett for the poor condition of roads in the St James East Central cons...

WESTERN BUREAU: The movement of traffic along the thoroughfare that links parts of Hanover and Westmoreland was crippled on Monday due to a demonstration at Shettlewood over bad road conditions. Residents blocked the roadway with fallen trees,...