The Government plans to spend US$200 million through NaRRA replacing ageing sewer lines in Kingston and St Andrew, while preparing to divest the overstretched Soapberry treatment plant.

Ground has been broken on a $147.8 million NWC project to replace a 50-year-old water main in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, benefiting about 1,200 residents in 300 households.

The National Water Commission spent billions contracting for capital projects that serve two million Jamaicans daily, and on paper it ticked every procedural box. But a performance audit by the Auditor General found that following the government’s pr