Over the last three months the Ministry has disbursed approximately $18.5m to aid rodent eradication efforts in the island’s fourteen parishes this, in furtherance of the Clean Up Jamaica effort.

The Clean Up Jamaica project was established in April of this year when Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller instituted an interministerial committee to spearhead clean up activities across the island.  The initiative was a response to a KSAC parish disaster and public health committee disclosure that about 50 communities in the corporate area were heavily rat infested.

The table below shows the disbursement to each Local Authority to date; an additional $2 million dollars is to be allocated to Kingston & St Andrew.