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LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINISTER URGES TOTAL COMPLIANCE WITH DISASTER EVACUATION ORDERS IF ISSUED THIS HURRICANE SEASON

June 3, 2016
Local Government and Community Development Minister, Desmond McKenzie, is imploring persons living in at-risk communities to comply with mandatory evacuation orders issued during the 2016 hurricane season. He is warning…

STOP ORDER ON ROYALTON HOTEL PROJECT CONDITIONALLY LIFTED

May 30, 2016
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, has announced the conditional lifting of the 30-day Stop Order on sections of the Blue Diamond Royalton Negril hotel project in Hanover.  The…

Blue Diamond Royalton Review Committee recommends conditional lifting of Stop Order at building site

May 30, 2016
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, says the Committee that investigated the collapse at the Blue Diamond Royalton hotel site in Negril, Hanover, has recommended the lifting of…

PRIME MINISTER CONFIRMS WASTE-TO-ENERGY AND DEVELOPMENT APPROVALS PROCESS AS LINCHPINS IN NATIONAL GROWTH AGENDA

May 26, 2016
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that the Government will be placing special emphasis on securing private investor interest in its programme of waste to energy conversion. In his contribution…

Amendments to Litter Act coming soon – Local Government Minister

May 25, 2016
As the Government of Jamaica continues to implement public sanitation measures to deal with the threat of the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, Minister of Local Government and Community…