Holness promises more ROOFS funding as 50,000 await hurricane grants
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Finance
August 4, 2026
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Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has announced that additional funding will soon be allocated to the Government’s ROOFS programme, assuring Jamaicans who have not yet received grants that they have not been forgotten.
Speaking at the Whitehouse Community Centre in Westmoreland during a tour last Friday, Holness said the initial allocation could only cover about half of the applicants.
“We have registered over 100,000 Jamaicans to receive the grant. We allocated, in the first instance, $10 billion. That $10 billion would have assisted just about 50,000 of the 100,000,” he said.
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