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...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. says the Government is focused on legislation and policies that will create an enabling framework to advance the country’s environmental agenda. He said that the objective is to address, among other things, the negative impact of human activity on the environment. “We are looking at a number of...

Education and Outreach Officer for the Montego Bay Marine Park Trust, Sharlinda Forrester, is calling on residents to protect the ecosystem along the Montego Bay shoreline by not littering. Miss Forrester, who was speaking to JIS News following a clean-up exercise at the Old Hospital Beach on Jimmy Cliff Boulevard on Saturday (June 5),   lamented that users of the facility...

Director, Environmental Management and Conservation, National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Anthony McKenzie (left), along with Chief Executive Officer, and Government Town Planner, NEPA, Peter Knight, participates in mangrove replanting activities along the Palisadoes strip within the Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area (P-PRPA), on June 4.