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Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr.

Supermarkets Encouraged To Engage In Recycling Projects

The Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change is calling for more supermarkets to engage in eco-friendly practices, such as recycling. “I am encouraging supermarkets, grocery stores and retailers to establish facilities to ramp up recycling at the...

Businesses Must Use Grace Period To Become Compliant For Third Phase Of Plastic Ban

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Pearnel Charles Jr.

Minister Charles Jr. Calls For Positive Behaviour Change Towards Plastic Pollution

Beachfront property along a section of Jamaica’s coastline.

$400 Million Allocated To Strengthen Agricultural Sector

Youth Encouraged To Innovate

An aerial view of a mangrove forest in Trelawny.

5 years ago Environment

Progress Being Made In Mangrove Restoration

Progress is being made in wetland forest (mangrove) restoration locally, says University of the West Indies (UWI) Marine Biologist, Dr. Camilo Trench. Citing a 2013 report published by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), which stated that Jamaica had lost more than 2,000 hectares of mangroves between 1989 and 2010, Dr. Trench said that collaborative efforts have led to...

Deputy Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon (left), along with Regional Operations Manager, Western Parks and Market (WPM) Waste Management Limited, Garnet Edmondson show off one of 12 drums, placed in the Meadows of Irwin Community in St. James, as part of a pilot plastic bottle separation project launched in the community on Friday (February 12).

5 years ago Environment

Plastic Bottle Separation Project Launched in Meadows of Irwin Community

The Western Parks and Market (WPM) Waste Management Limited on Friday (February 12) launched a pilot plastic bottle separation project in the Meadows of Irwin Community in St. James. The project aims to reduce the high volume of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles deposited at the Retirement disposal site in the parish and to promote the separation of plastic bottles from...

Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Department and Conservator of Forests, Ainsley Henry (left), and Principal of St. Jago High School in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, Collette Pryce (right), observe as Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Information Service, Donna-Marie Rowe, waters one of several tree seedlings that were planted across the campus of St. Jago High School in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, on Thursday (February 11). Occasion was the launch of the Forestry Department’s ‘My Tree Legacy’ project at the institution. All three are distinguished St. Jago alumni.

5 years ago Environment

Forestry Dept. Launches Latest Tree-Planting Project At St. Jago High School

The Forestry Department, on Thursday (February 11), launched its ‘My Tree Legacy’ Initiative, its latest project through which it will afford past students the opportunity to plant trees on the campuses of their alma maters. Unveiled at St. Jago High School in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, the project is in support of the Government’s ‘Three Million Trees in Three Years’...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon.
Pearnel Charles Jr, speaking during the sitting of the House of Representatives on February 9.

5 years ago Environment

Progress Made In Arresting Breaches Of Ban On Plastics

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is reporting that 42 prosecutions and 27 convictions have been effected for breaches of the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (Plastic Packaging Materials Prohibition) Order, 2018, since the institution of the ban on select categories of single-use plastics two years ago. This was disclosed by Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change,...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr, speaking during Tuesday

5 years ago Environment

Gov’t Exploring Measures To Enhance Management Of Disposable Containers

The Government is exploring measures that can be incorporated in the management of polyethylene and polypropylene containers that have replaced the expanded polystyrene foam containers on the domestic market. This was disclosed by Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr, during Tuesday’s (February 9) sitting of the House of Representatives. “We acknowledge that this...

The Mason River Protected Area in Clarendon, which is co-managed by the Natural History Museum of Jamaica, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), is currently undergoing an Invasive Species Control and Habitat Restoration project. The area is being rid of the invasive vampire fern (Dicranopteris pectinata) and the Natural History Museum of Jamaica is calling on persons to help protect local wetlands. The Mason River Protected Area has several wetland features and provides water for farming communities in the area.

5 years ago Environment

Jamaicans Encouraged To Protect Wetlands

The Natural History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ) is calling on Jamaicans to play their part in protecting and conserving wetlands as it carries out habitat restoration work in the Mason River Protected Area. Speaking at the second Wetlands Awareness Virtual Engagement (WAVE) on February 9, Assistant Botanist at the NHMJ, Sashalee Cross, cited several threats the Mason River Protected Area...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., speaks at a virtual public town hall meeting on the draft Beach Access and Management Policy for Jamaica, on February 2.

5 years ago Environment

Minister Outlines Objectives Of New Beach Policy

The Government, through the draft Beach Access and Management Policy for Jamaica, is seeking to increase access to and improve the standard and maintenance of beaches available to the public. Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., gave details on the policy during a virtual public town hall meeting, held on February 2. “The...