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Gov’t To Make Announcement On Third Phase Of Plastic Ban

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., says he will be making an announcement shortly on the third phase of the Government’s ban on single-use plastic, which takes effect in January 2021. This phase...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (JIS File Photo).

Jamaica Lead Authority For Caribbean Climate Change Project

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, the Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (sixth right) is flanked by young people at the Youth Month tree-planting ceremony on Wednesday (November 25) at Boulevard Baptist Church in Kingston. locked by young people from the Boulevard Baptist Church.

Youth Encouraged To Get Involved In National Tree-Planting Programme

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (second right); and Chief Executive Officer and Conservator of Forest, Forestry Department, Ainsley Henry (right), plant a Lignum Vitae tree at the Youth Month tree-planting ceremony held on Wednesday (November 25) at Boulevard Baptist Church in Kingston. Observing are Executive Officer, Jamaica Millennium Vision for Youth, Garran Diviney (left); President of the organisation, Chad Rattray (second left) and Director of Agriculture and Fishing, Food For the Poor, Nakhle Hado (standing(.

Food For The Poor Supports Three Million Trees Planting Initiative

Project Manager for the Plastic Waste Minimisation Project, National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA, Kashta Graham (centre), is pictured with (from left) Director of Lee’s Food Fair, Patrick Lee; Customer Service Representative at Magna, Ava Dawn Weir; shopper and participant in NEPA’s recycling drive, Patrick Morgan; and Recycling Partners of Jamaica (RPJ) Representatives Elijah Saulas and Jonathan Beckford, at the launch of the ‘Plastic Recycling Eco-Reward Pilot Programme’ at Lees Food Fair on Red Hills Road, St. Andrew, last month.

1,211 Pounds of Plastic Waste Already Collected Under NEPA’S Pilot Programme

5 years ago EnvironmentOffice of the Prime Minister

14 World Leaders Commit to 100% Sustainable Ocean Management to Solve Global Challenges; Call for More Countries to Join

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)...

British High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Asif Ahmad. (FILE)

5 years ago Environment

Caribbean Developers Urged To Build With Nature In Mind

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...

Members of the Kiwanis Club of Discovery Bay, in St. Ann, engage in a beautification project at the Discovery Bay High School, as part of efforts to boost the aesthetics of the institution.

5 years ago EnvironmentYouth

Discovery Bay High Gets Facelift

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...

Interim Project Manager for the Integrated Management of the Yallahs and Hope River Watershed Management Areas (Yallahs-Hope) Project, André Reid, addresses a JIS Think Tank, on October 29. The Yallahs-Hope Project comes to an end this month. A completed socio-economic study of the watershed areas will inform stakeholders

5 years ago EnvironmentJIS Think Tank

NEPA Completes Socio-Economic Study of Yallahs and Hope Watersheds

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...

Residents of Anchovy, in St. James, participate in the environmental wardens training session, held recently in the community.

5 years ago Environment

Persons Being Trained as Environmental Wardens

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...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (third left), observes as Chairman, Recycling Partners of Jamaica Limited (RPJ), Damien King (left), accepts keys for a box truck from Acting Executive Director, Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo.), Stephen Edwards, during the handover ceremony, on Wednesday (October 21), at the recycling company’s Lake’s Pen address in St. Catherine. At right is Chief Financial Officer, RPJ, Wincella Cummings.

6 years ago EnvironmentTourism

Recycling Partners of Jamaica Gets Truck from TPDCo.

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...