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The Gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica has an­nounced plans to es­tab­lish a Na­tion­al Re­con­struc­tion and Re­silience Au­thor­i­ty (NARA) to lead, co­or­di­nate, fast-track and over­see na­tion­al re­build­ing ef­forts in the af­ter­math of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

“The NARA will fo­cus on build­ing back bet­ter – safer homes, cli­mate-re­silient in­fra­struc­ture, bet­ter land use plan­ning, re­lo­ca­tion from high-risk zones,” said Prime Min­is­ter, Dr. An­drew Hol­ness.

He said that new in­dus­tries and busi­ness­es will al­so be in­tro­duced to ar­eas that pre­vi­ous­ly had no eco­nom­ic base.