Just in case you ignored that little insert Jamaica Information Service publishes every month in the Observer, let me help out by summarizing a few key points for you.
I present; your budget in a nut shell:
$1.05 Billion to be used by the Jamaica Social Initiative Fund (JSIF) to provide social services "to implement infrastructure development projects and provide basic social services in a number of communities ?
$79.3 million to sustain production of high quality marine resources to strengthening fishers' organizations ?
$1.2 Billion for the Montego Bay convention Centre
$55 million for Poverty Reduction Programme
$576 million allocated to Ministry of Health efforts to enhance Universal access to treatment and preventative measures for persons with HIV and AIDS
$964 million to Citizens Security and Justice Project
$24.7 Million for Hazard Management in Coastal Areas
$379 million to Office of the Cabinets Public Sector Modernization Programme II (anyone else wonder what happened to programme I?)
$34 million to Ministry of Foreign affairs for customized office facilities to accommodate staff, meetings and conferences with diplomatic and other visitors (seriously?)
$268 million to Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for the Forestry and Wildlife Programme
$120 million from World bank into phase II of Reform Secondary education Project (ROSE) (creative, no?)

I can’t even add that up... But there it is; that’s where the government's money is going this year.

Now I know the Health programmes are extremely important given the AIDS epidemic and I whole heartedly support their funding. But a lot of the other social initiatives I’m not too sure about given Jamaica's situation.
If there isn't a turnaround in the economy, there will be even fewer jobs, if there are fewer jobs there will be more people who turn to crime as a means to survive. And when that happens, who will care what the Jamaica Social Investment Fund is doing to end Poverty? When the communities they need to enter have turned into war zones and become inaccessible. Doesn't the GOJ see that there would be less need for "Citizens Security" if there were more opportunity for its people?
The government really needs to rethink the economic before it tries invests so much in the social. I KNOW it’s necessary but the figures are just too much for me to wrap my mind around.
At this rate we'll have a generation new generation of beggars who speak the queens English.