Gov’t Commits to Significant Long-Term Investments in Jamaica’s Road Infrastructure

• Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government will be making significant long-term investments in improving Jamaica’s road infrastructure.
• “It is going to be a 20-year journey for us to get all our roads into the conditions where we can drive in comfort on all of them. Going forward, the Government is making the commitment, with the budgetary allocations from our [positive] economic performance, to build new roads, improve those roads, and maintain them. For the first time, we are in a position that we can project to be able to do this,” he disclosed.
• The Prime Minister was addressing a Diaspora town hall at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in New York on Saturday (September 21).
• Holness noted that Jamaica’s stable economic performance has been pivotal in facilitating investments in the island’s critical infrastructures. Key among these are developments slated to be carried out under the $40 billion Shared Prosperity Through Accelerated Improvement to our Road Network (SPARK) Programme.
• He highlighted that with stable revenues and a long-term projected investment path, business operators can feel confident in investments they make. He went on to state that the country’s improved economic structure is critical to facilitating these investments and emphasised the importance of the Diaspora’s role in growing the economy.

(Source: JIS)