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The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) will be doing further tests to determine the source of the chemical pollutant, which affected scores of persons near the vicinity of the Central Sorting Office on February 28. The agency, after rigorous analysis, has identified the chemical as methylene chloride. Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, told...

Some 500 farmers in and around the Accompong area of St. Elizabeth are to benefit from a Green House project, set up through a US$50,000 grant by the Global Environmental Fund (GEF). The project has two components, including the establishment of a nursery for lumber and fruit trees, with the planting of at least 10,000 trees over 18 months; and...

Scores of outstanding young men and women will be honoured at the Prime Minister’s Youth Awards for Excellence on Sunday, March 24. The function which will take place at the Emancipation Park, at 4:00 p.m., is open to the public. This year’s staging of the Awards is being held under the theme “Youth on a Mission…Project 2062”. Prime Minister Portia...

A mangrove replanting project is currently underway at Portland Cottage, in Clarendon. A delegation from the European Union (EU), the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) will conduct a site visit and tour under Component 2 of the Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Project (CCADRRP), on March 14. The project, valued...

A cheque valued at $407,000 was handed over to the Child Development Agency (CDA) on Tuesday, March 12, to assist with ongoing repair work being carried out at the Muirton Boys’ Home, in Portland. The money, which was collected at this year’s staging of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast, was handed over by the Prayer Breakfast Committee, in partnership with...

Major highways in six parishes along the North Coast corridor will receive extensive cleaning and beautification during the next two years, under the Northern Coastal Highway Road Improvement Programme. The $340 million project is being funded by the Government, in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The six parishes are Portland, St. Mary, St. Ann, Trelawny, St. James and...

The Jubilee Market in downtown Kingston is scheduled to be renovated next month, Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Angela Brown Burke, has announced. The Mayor made the disclosure during the monthly meeting of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC), at its Church Street chambers in downtown Kingston, on March 12. [RELATED: New Vendor Registration Begins April] Mrs. Brown Burke informed...

Come April 1, the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) will commence a new vendor registration exercise in the Corporate Area. Making the disclosure during a KSAC Council meeting at its Church Street chambers in downtown Kingston on March 12, Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Angela Brown Burke, informed that the registration process serves as an important planning tool. “(It) helps...

Holy Trinity High School is on the way to improved academic results, with the assistance of technology, and teachers being able to “walk” with laptop computers for use in classes. Some 300 seventh graders will also benefit from 20 new Internet-enabled desktop computers, which have been installed in the school’s reading room. A total of 45 computers were formally handed...

Political representatives have been urged to make space for community leaders to identify development needs in their area, and to work with them to ensure they are achieved, by Mayor of Black River, Councillor Everton Fisher. Addressing a parish forum on March 11, at the St. Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS), in Santa Cruz, Mr. Fisher argued that while the...

Prime Minister and Minister of Sport, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has come out in support of Jamaican Whycliffe ‘Dave’ Cameron’s bid for the Presidency of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). In her endorsement, the Prime Minister said Jamaica is a nation of cricket enthusiasts and our cricketers have distinguished themselves with excellent performance at the highest regional and...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is encouraging members of the Commonwealth to work together to create a better future that is beneficial for all, especially the most vulnerable. “Our shared values of peace, democracy, development, justice and human rights – which are found in our new ‘Commonwealth Charter’ – mean that we place special emphasis on including everyone in this...