Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr, says he will be submitting, for the Prime Minister’s consideration and that of Cabinet, an initiative dubbed ‘Renewed Jamaica’, which is geared at protecting the environment through the planting of trees. He made the disclosure at the #MyTreeLegacy tree-planting exercise held at St. Catherine High School on...

The Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change is in the process of developing Jamaica’s first National Adaptation Plan (NAP). Portfolio Minister, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. said that during this financial year, Jamaica will be able to access a US$1.1-million grant from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to begin the preparations. He was speaking during a recent Facebook...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says under the impending new Protected Areas Act, the Government intends to develop a policy and strategies to address situations where lands that are privately held are selected to be protected sites. The Government will be promulgating a new Protected Areas Act to enable the creation and regulation of a National Protected Areas...

A target of 192,000 trees has been set for planting in Manchester, under the Prime Minister’s National Tree Planting Initiative (NTPI). The number represents the current population in the parish. Custos of Manchester, Hon. Garfield Green, who spoke at the launch of the initiative in the parish, at the Percy Junor Hospital in Manchester on June 10, said the number...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has reiterated Jamaica’s commitment to protecting the environment through the continuous strengthening of management policies that are designed to be comprehensive and sustainable. “Over the last few years, the Government has undertaken extensive work on progressively strengthening our environmental governance framework. We have finalised several key national environmental policies, including, for example, a...

The Government is implementing a range of policy, legislative and institutional measures that will support the management of coastal and marine environments, says Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Leslie Campbell. “Our efforts are directed at working with partner countries to properly manage our global common, create decent work, promote economic...

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is reporting that almost 100,000 pounds of plastic have been collected under its pilot plastic separation project implemented in several St. Andrew communities last year. “We selected 16 communities that we believe can become more sustainable in terms of the approach towards [plastic] separation and we have been working with them,” said NSWMA...