ACKNOWLEDGING that the Corporate Area’s aged sewerage infrastructure is failing after years of underinvestment, Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change Matthew Samuda has pledged that the Andrew Holness-led Administration will be the one to remedy long-standing wastewater woes through a multimillion-dollar overhaul of the system.

Through the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), Samuda explained that US$200 million will be used to undertake a complete renovation of the city’s failing sewerage systems.

He was responding to questions about the persistent sewage issue in the Corporate Area at a Jamaica Observer Press Club at the newspaper’s St Andrew headquarters on Friday.