Water supply projects targeted for St Catherine, Portland, St Mary and St Ann

The Government of Jamaica (GOJ) will be rolling out additional water shops across the island during the course of this year.

The water shops being targeted for 2022 are located in St Elizabeth, Portland and Manchester.

Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie, who made the announcement, highlighted the government’s drive to bring water to rural communities.

“We will complete the water shops at Commodore in Portland and Myersville in St Elizabeth. We will build more water shops in Manchester at Mile Gully, Porus, Somerset and Johns Hall,” McKenzie told parliamentarians earlier this week.

WIDE RANGE OF WATER SUPPLY PROJECTS

Making his contribution to the 2022-2023 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives, the minister also spoke about water projects that will shortly be coming on stream.

He promised that the Government would complete a wide range of water supply projects at Watermount and Pear Tree Grove in St Catherine; Cornwall Barracks, Bangor Ridge Phase 2 and Stony Hill in Portland; Thicketts in St Ann; Maybole in St Elizabeth, and the Comma/Mango Valley area in St Mary.

These will be done at a cost of J$215 million. Turning to the matter of electrification, McKenzie advised that, through the Rural Electrification Programme, the Government would be spending J$300 million to erect an additional 10 kilometres of new light pole lines and connect 2,000 houses across to communities to the national  grid.