More than $500 million earmarked to fund Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project

A total of $517.8 million has been earmarked in the 2018-19 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, to fund the Jamaica Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project.
The four-year project, which began in April 2016 and is being implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), aims to enhance the country’s resilience to disaster and climate risk.