Leaders of Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Ghana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Palau and Portugal commit to sustainably manage nearly 30 million sq km of their national waters by 2025 Leaders put a healthy ocean at the top of the global policy agenda to accelerate economic recovery The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel)...

Food For the Poor has committed to planting one million fruit and timber trees over the next three years. This is in support of the Government’s target to plant three million trees over three years under a national tree planting initiative launched by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness in October 2019. Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has collected 1,211 pounds of plastic waste, to date, under its Plastic Recycling Eco-Reward Pilot Programme, which got under way on October 1. The eight-week pilot, aimed at promoting the sustainable disposal of plastic waste in the Corporate Area, involves partnership with Lee’s Food Fair Supermarket, Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ) and Magna...

British High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Asif Ahmad, is encouraging developers of housing and other infrastructure in the Caribbean to “build with nature in mind”. “Planners, builders and users of property need to understand more fully the environment that is built and the human beings that have to live and thrive within those communities,” he said. “It begins with...

The aesthetics of the Discovery Bay High School in St. Ann has received a boost, courtesy of the Kiwanis Club of Discovery Bay. President of the Club, Marlene Edwards, told JIS News that as part of Kiwanis International’s recent annual one-day project initiative, members of the club journeyed to the one-year-old high school, where trees were planted in old tyres...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) says it has completed the socio-economic study of the Yallahs and Hope watersheds. This is one of the components of the soon-to-be-concluded Integrated Management of the Yallahs and Hope River Watershed Management Areas (Yallahs-Hope) Project. “What the project sought to do and what it hopes to continue, post implementation, is to have a...

Approximately 200 residents from six vulnerable communities are being trained as Environmental Wardens, through the solid waste management initiative being implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The initiative, a component of JSIF’s Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP), which is now in its second phase, is being funded by the Government of Jamaica. Persons being trained are from Treadlight...

The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo.) has handed over a box truck, valued at approximately $7 million, to Recycling Partners of Jamaica Limited (RPJ) as part of the Government’s commitment to environmental protection. Funding for the procurement of the unit was provided under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between TPDCo. and the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF). The truck will serve...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (left), greets High Commissioner of Canada to Jamaica, Her Excellency Laurie Peters, during a courtesy call at Jamaica House, on October 21.