Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Infrastructure Development Robert Montague (second right) greets Grace Ann Stewart McFarlane, permanent secretary in the Ministry Of Justice (left) at a lease agreement signing ceremony for State entities at the Morant Bay Urban Centre on Thursday. Sharing in the occasion are Cabinet Secretary Audrey Sewell (second left), and Lytteton β€œTanny” Shirley,chairman of the Factories Corporation of Jamaica. Karl Mclarty

FACED with recent criticisms over the slow take up of units at the $6-billion Morant Bay Urban Centre, the Government on Thursday inked a deal with 13 State agencies which will set up shop at the St Thomas-based complex.

Last month the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) argued that the centre β€œremained incomplete and largely inaccessible to tenants” nearly a year after its official opening.

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