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Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (left), presents the top male trophy to Carlington Miller from Russia, Westmoreland. Occasion was the graduation ceremony for 55 new Environmental Wardens under the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP), held on October 9, at the Wexford Hotel, Montego Bay.
Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (left), presents the top male trophy to Carlington Miller from Russia, Westmoreland. Occasion was the graduation ceremony for 55 new Environmental Wardens under the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP), held on October 9, at the Wexford Hotel, Montego Bay.

55 Environmental Wardens Trained and Certified

By: Sharon Earle, October 13, 2015
Fifty-five residents of nine communities in four parishes have been trained and certified as environmental wardens under the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF) Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP). They hail...
Managing Director of Central Wastewater Treatment Company (CWTC) Limited, Keith Goodison, addresses a JIS Think Tank on October 7.

Soapberry Operator Looking At Providing Treated Water For Irrigation

By: O. Rodger Hutchinson, October 9, 2015
Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (left), and Country Manager, Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Timothee Delebarre, symbolically exchange signed copies of the contract for the replacement/upgrading of the Boscobel and Elleston Flats Wastewater Treatment Plants. The signing ceremony was held today (October 7), at the National Water Commission’s (NWC) offices in New Kingston.

Work to Begin on US$4.2 Million Sewage Treatment Plants

By: Chris Patterson, October 8, 2015

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Water, Land, Environment, and Climate Change Minister, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, addresses the Ministry’s Climate Change Public Campaign Consultation on the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference (COP 21), at the Cecil Charlton Hall, in Mandeville, Manchester, on September 17.
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Govt. Safeguarding Freshwater Resources

Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Minister, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, says the Government, through the Ministry, is taking the necessary measures to safeguard Jamaica’s freshwater resources, in light of protracted...
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By: Douglas Mcintosh, September 19, 2015