The issue of community renewal through the upgrading of housing stock, will take centre stage, as Jamaica joins the rest of the world in commemorating the 66th anniversary of World...

Contracts totalling US$8.73 million have been signed for upgrading and improvement works at six wastewater treatment facilities in the parishes of Kingston, St. Catherine and Clarendon. Of the total allocation, US$5...

The National Environmental and Planning Agency (NEPA) will be using a multi-agency approach to reduce the accumulation of sargassum (seaweed) along Jamaica’s coastline. Speaking at a recent Jamaica Information Service...

Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, yesterday (October 22) commissioned into service the Cassava Pond water supply system in North West St. Catherine. The facility,...

The National Irrigation Commission (NIC) Limited is to continue its consultations with stakeholders for the proposed closed-conduit (piped) irrigation system, which is to be implemented in the Hill Run Community...

Government has allocated an initial sum of $5 million for clean-up and disposal of the sargassum (a brown seaweed with berry-like air bladders) currently affecting beaches and coastlines across the...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has prepared guidelines for the sustainable removal and disposal of the sargassum (a brown seaweed with bony-like air bladders) currently affecting beaches and...

The Government’s capacity to protect the country’s ecosystem against the threat of foreign plants, animals and pathogens has been boosted with the launch of the Jamaica Invasive Species Database (JISD)....