The third phase of the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) is now far advanced in the western parish of Westmoreland.
Community Relations Officer at the National Works Agency (NWA), Janel Ricketts says that ten road sections are being targeted under this programme. The programme involves the bushing of verges, drain cleaning, drainage improvement and the resurfacing of roadways.
To date, work on seven of the ten roadways targeted, has been completed. These include sections of the York and Lambs River roadways in Eastern Westmoreland; the Fullersfield and Broughton Parish Council roadways in Western Hanover and the Kingswood roadway and Wharf Road in Central Westmoreland.
Ms. Ricketts says that in Westmoreland, work is continuing on the Grange to Friendship roadway, as well as Rose Street and Seaton Crescent, in the parish capital, Savanna la Mar.
The projects are being undertaken at a cost of approximately thirty million dollars and are expected to be completed within another two weeks. The JEEP forms part of the government’s multi-billion dollar Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP), which is geared at the rehabilitation of selected roadways across the island.
In the meantime, the NWA is undertaking a patching and drain cleaning programme along sections of the Ferris Cross to Mackfield roadway in Westmoreland, valued at approximately four ($4) million dollars. The project which got underway on September 1, 2014 is expected to be completed before the end of the month.
Just over 1,000 square metres of roadway will be patched through this effort. The Ferris Cross to Mackfield stretch is among the selected corridors targeted under the MIDP.
