The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) will host the eighth staging of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination Student Sensitisation webinar on February 8. The event will target fourth and fifth form students sitting the CSEC Geography examination, and aid them in preparing their School-Based Assessment (SBA) papers. A Ministry of Education and Youth bulletin indicates that the...

Guided tours of the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) field station in Mason River, Clarendon, will be the principal activities marking this year’s observance of World Wetlands Day in Jamaica on February 2. The scheduled engagements, to be spearheaded by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), which is the administrative authority for the National Ramsar Convention (NRC) in Jamaica, will...

Reggae Month 2024 will kick off with a tribute to the Crown Prince of Reggae, Dennis Brown, at the Vera Moodie Concert Hall, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, on Thursday (February 1). Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange made the announcement while speaking at the Reggae Month Church Service held...

Jamaica’s mangrove ecosystem is being strengthened under a project being implemented by the Forestry Department over a four-year period. The Jamaica Mangroves Plus Project, which began in late 2023 and will run until 2027, is funded by a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Department and...

The target date for the ban on plastic lunch boxes and personal care products with microplastic beads is June 1. This was announced by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, during his presentation in the State of the Nation Debate in the Senate, on January 19. “We have taken...

Regulations will soon be developed and introduced in Parliament for the removal of microplastics from personal care products as well as the prohibition of plastic lunch boxes. Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, provided an update on the country’s sustainability and waste management efforts, during the opening of the...

The Government has announced plans to mandate plastic separation and recycling by all ministries, departments, agencies and statutory bodies as part of the management of solid waste. Addressing the opening of a new recycling plant by Recycling Partners of Jamaica at Naggo Head, Portmore, St. Catherine, on Thursday (December 14), Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, said legislation will...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, is expected to make a ministerial statement this week on Jamaica’s participation in the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP28). The announcement was made by Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Information, Hon....

Managing Director, INAMI Management Services Limited, Donovan Betancourt (left), in discussion with entertainer, Jeffery “Agent Sasco” Campbell, during the Digicel Foundation’s recent handover of grants to environmental projects ceremony in downtown Kingston. Through the ‘Good Energy, Clean Environment’ grant campaign, the Digicel Foundation identified and selected 13 projects across 10 parishes that align with its mission to create positive environmental impact.