National Works Agency

The PSMP focused on creating Executive Agencies that represented a new organization format in the Jamaican Public Sector, and making core Ministries more policy driven. The Works Division of the Ministry of Transport and Works was one of the entities examined as part of the PSMP cluster groups and in October 1999 the Jamaican Government endorsed the establishment of the National Works Agency (NWA), and accorded it Executive Agency status on April 1, 2001. A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) was delegated the technical authority and responsibility, vested in Chief Technical Director as well as the Human Resource authority vested in the Governor General.