Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, has said that an informed and responsive citizenry is critical to addressing issues related to climate change and the...

Improving agricultural practices to get “more crop per drop” will be Jamaica’s main focus on World Water Day, which will be observed on Thursday (March 22). Based on the international...

Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Ronald Jackson, says countries in the region can help with building each other’s disaster management capabilities. “More and...

A three-day workshop organised by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), which began on March 14 in Kingston, is expected to significantly upgrade the preparedness of personnel...

The rehabilitated Negril Wastewater Treatment Ponds, in Westmoreland, were commissioned Wednesday March 14, by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller. The rehabilitation work was funded by Jamaica and...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is offering its extensive knowledge and experience in disaster risk management to other countries in the region. Director General of ODPEM,...

Permanent secretaries, national disaster directors and coordinators from the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Authority’s (CDEMA) North-West region, are in the island for a week of activities aimed at coming up...

In response to an invitation from the Government of Jamaica, the Living Oceans Foundation will shortly begin coral reef surveys off the Pedro Banks of the island’s South coast. The...

The Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change is urging residents served by the Mona and Hope Treatment Plants in St. Andrew to brace for temporary interruptions in their...

Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill on Thursday March 8, officially broke ground for the rehabilitation of the Mona and Hope Treatment Plants. The works,...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A.J. Nicholson, said that developing countries like Jamaica, must “move with alacrity” to explore development opportunities in the deep seabed....