The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) wishes to inform the public that the fire at the Riverton Disposal Facility has been extinguished. However, there remains a level of smoke nuisance in the surrounding areas. Executive Director of the NSWMA, Audley Gordon says cooling down operations are still underway. "This is usually the case with smoke, it takes a while...

Approximately 300 residents of Norwood, Flankers and Salt Spring in St. James benefited from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Community Empowerment Fair, which was held at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Montego Bay recently. The fair formed part of USAID’s Positive Pathways Programme, which targets support for Jamaican beneficiary communities, parents, and families to prevent youth...

Scores of environmental wardens have been certified and recognised for their involvement in community sanitation, by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA). The JSIF’s Environmental Wardens Programme was implemented under the second phase of the Government of Jamaica Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP 2) Solid Waste Management cycle four sub-project. The Environmental...

Government Senator, Don Wehby, has added his voice to calls being made for increased productivity in the public and private sectors. Making his contribution to the Appropriations Bill, 2024, debate in the Senate on Wednesday (March 27), Senator Wehby, who is also GraceKennedy Group Chief Executive Officer, suggested that national dialogue is needed on the issue. “I would call on...

The Cabinet has given approval for 3,813 new posts at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) and its four regional companies. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, made the announcement while closing the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 26. “That is across the National Solid Waste Management Authority...

Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (right), is in discussion with Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Oversight for Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, during the Board of Supervision’s annual awards ceremony at the Boone Hall Oasis in Stony Hill, St. Andrew, recently.

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, shakes hands with Chief Executive Officer, Universal Service Fund (USF), Daniel Dawes, following the official unveiling of the Irish Pen Community Wi-Fi in St. Catherine on March 22.

Work is underway on the construction of  a road to serve farmers in Mendez Town in Lowe River, Trelawny. The $120 million project is being undertaken by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) in partnership with the Trelawny Municipal Corporation, with Contracts Enterprise as the contracting entity. Managing Director of JSIF, Omar Sweeney, told JIS News that the project will...

The Jamaican delegation to the recent regional forum on ecosystem restoration benefitted from exchanges on preserving biodiversity and strengthening climate change resilience. Held in Trinidad and Tobago from March 13 to 17, the seminar was facilitated by the United States Forest Service (USFS) through its Natural Infrastructure for Caribbean Resilience (NICaR) programme. The Jamaican delegation included representatives from the Forestry...