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Senior Director, Forest Signs and Technical Services, at the Forestry Department, Miss Donna Lowe, speaking at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’.
Senior Director, Forest Signs and Technical Services, at the Forestry Department, Miss Donna Lowe, speaking at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’.

More Forest Cover Recorded

By: O. Rodger Hutchinson, July 27, 2015
Jamaica has recorded an afforestation  rate of 0.41 per cent,  a turn-around in the pattern of forestation since it was first checked in 1998. At that time it was revealed...
Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (left), congratulates Director of the Culture in Education Programme in the Ministry of Education, Amina Blackwood Meeks (right), while presenting her with a certificate for successfully completing a three-day climate change workshop. Occasion was the closing ceremony for the training workshop for educators, held on July 22, at the Grand Port Royal Hotel in Port Royal.

Teachers Benefit from Climate Change Training

By: Rochelle Williams, July 27, 2015
Water, Land, Environment, and Climate Change Minister, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (2nd left), signs a copy of the $278.8 million (US$2.37 million) Enterprise License Agreement (ELA), reached with American technology firm, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices today (July 22). Other signatories (from left) are: Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Alwyn Hales; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ESRI’s local agent, Spatial Innovisions, Silburn Clarke; and Chair, Land Information Council of Jamaica (LICJ), Jacqueline daCosta.

Gov’t Entities to Have Unlimited Access to GIS Software

By: Douglas McIntosh, July 23, 2015

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Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (second left) along with from left: Member of Parliament for North East St. Elizabeth, Raymond Pryce and Acting President of the National Water Commission (NWC), Mark Barnett tour works being undertaken on the Santa Cruz Water Supply System on July 16. The project will see some 23,000 additional residents benefiting from improved water supply.
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Delinquent NWC Customers Urged To Pay Up

Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill is appealing to residents in St. Elizabeth to bring their outstanding accounts up-to-date, under the National Water Commission’s (NWC)...
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By: Glenis A. Rose, July 20, 2015