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

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...

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.

Recycling Partners of Jamaica Gets Truck from TPDCo.

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.

PHOTOS: Minister Charles Jr. Meets with Canadian High Commissioner

JAMPRO and UDC Promote Investment in Eco-Tourism

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

Comments Invited on Draft Biosafety Policy for Jamaica

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., speaks with Acting Chief Executive Officer and Conservator of the Forestry Department, Rainee Oliphant (left), in the plant nursery at the Forestry Department on Friday (October 2). At centre is Lois Morgan, who oversees the nursey. The Minister visited the Forestry Department to plant a tree in observance of National Tree Planting Day.

6 years ago Environment

Persons Must Make Tree-Planting Regular Part of Their Daily Lives – Charles Jr.

As Jamaica observes National Tree Planting Day today (October 2), Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., is encouraging Jamaicans to make tree-planting and maintenance a regular part of their daily lives. The Minister, who planted a Sweetwood Tree at the Forestry Department property in Kingston, on Friday (October 2), emphasised that the Government...

Member of Parliament for East Rural St. Andrew, and wife of Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (second left) plants a tree in observance of National Tree Planting Day today (October 2) at the Papine High School. Others (from left) are: Principal of the school, Clayton Christie; St Andrew East Rural youth parliamentarian, O’Neil Dowe; and youth volunteer, Johanna Davy.

6 years ago Environment

PHOTOS: Mrs. Holness Plants Trees at Papine High School

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, the Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr (right), plants a Sweetwood Tree with the help of Principal Director, Forest Operations, Forestry Department, Jerome Smith on the grounds of the Department in St. Andrew on Friday (October 2). The activity was in observance of National Tree Planting Day.

6 years ago Environment

PHOTOS: National Tree Planting Day

Senior Manager for Projects at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Gregory Thomas (left), in discussion with Project Manager, Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (IWEco) Jamaica, Loureene Jones, during a recent coral outplanting exercise at the Orange Bay Fish Sanctuary, in Hanover.

6 years ago EnvironmentFisheries

Negril Fisherfolk Called on to Become Better Stewards of the Aquatic Ecosystem

Senior Manager for Projects at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Gregory Thomas, has called on fisherfolk in Negril, Westmoreland, to become better stewards of the aquatic ecosystem, in order to maintain a healthy marine environment and sustainable fisheries. In an interview following a recent coral outplanting exercise, at the Orange Bay Fish Sanctuary, in Hanover, Mr. Thomas said...

Director of Environmental Management and Conservation at NEPA, Anthony McKenzie.

6 years ago Environment

NEPA Reports Positive Trends

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) says it has observed positive trends in the environment amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “During the initial phase of the local outbreak when businesses and schools shifted their operations online, we saw some positive changes concerning the air quality and we have documented that,” Director of Environmental Management and Conservation at NEPA, Anthony...

Spatial Plan Coordinator at the National Spatial Data Management Branch (NSDMB), Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Raymond Poyser, addresses the second Jamaica Virtual GIS User Conference on September 24.

6 years ago Economic Growth & Infrastructure DevelopmentEnvironment

GIS Users Invited to Test Spatial Planning Information Technology Platform

Local users of geographic information systems (GIS) are being invited to test and provide feedback on the National Spatial Planning Information Technology (NSPIT) Platform, which is in the final stages of completion. The platform will be used for the dissemination of planning information to guide spatial development at the national and local levels. It will be accessible to the general...

Senior Manager with responsibility for Projects at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Gregory Thomas, during a coral out-planting exercise at the Orange Bay Fish Sanctuary in Hanover on September 25.

6 years ago Environment

NEPA Calls on Negril Residents to Help Restore Great Morass

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is imploring residents and stakeholders in Negril, Westmoreland, to support efforts by the agency to restore the Negril Great Morass and improve the management of the Negril Environmental Protection Area. Dubbed ‘Biodiversity Mainstreaming in Coastal Landscapes within the Negril Environmental Protection Area of Jamaica’, this is a subproject of the ‘Integrating Water, Land...