JAMAICA-AGRICULTURE-Roads in sugar dependent communities to be rehabilitated
Sep 06, 2013
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - Eight contracts totaling just over J$404 million (One Jamaica dollar = US$0.01 cents) have been signed for the rehabilitation of more than 44 kilometres of cane roads in seven sugar-dependent communities across the island.
The road works, which will be undertaken in the central parishes of St. Catherine and Clarendon, the western parish of Westmoreland, the northern parish of Trelawny and the eastern parish of St. Thomas come under the Cane Roads Rehabilitation Project in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
The contracts were signed by Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke, Members of Parliament and contractors on Tuesday.
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