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Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (second left) and Director, Share Con Limited, Fitzroy Donaldson (second right), sign contracts for the Burnt Savannah/Knoxwood Water Supply Mains Replacement and Upgrading Project during a ceremony at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on November 14. Sharing in the moment (from left) are: Member of Parliament, St. Elizabeth South Western, Hugh Buchanan; and Member of Parliament, St. Elizabeth North Eastern, Raymond Pryce. Also pictured in the background is: Vice President, Legal Affairs, National Water Commission, Kevin Williams. The project, which is expected to improve access to potable water in North Eastern and South Western St. Elizabeth, is slated to cost $59.6 million.
Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (second left) and Director, Share Con Limited, Fitzroy Donaldson (second right), sign contracts for the Burnt Savannah/Knoxwood Water Supply Mains Replacement and Upgrading Project during a ceremony at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on November 14. Sharing in the moment (from left) are: Member of Parliament, St. Elizabeth South Western, Hugh Buchanan; and Member of Parliament, St. Elizabeth North Eastern, Raymond Pryce. Also pictured in the background is: Vice President, Legal Affairs, National Water Commission, Kevin Williams. The project, which is expected to improve access to potable water in North Eastern and South Western St. Elizabeth, is slated to cost $59.6 million.

3,000 Residents to Benefit From Improved Access to Potable Water

By: Chris Patterson, November 15, 2013
Approximately 3,000 residents of communities in North Eastern and South Western St. Elizabeth are to benefit from improved access to potable water, under the Burnt Savannah/Knoxwood Water Supply Mains Replacement...
Vice President for Sales and Individual Life at Sagicor Life Jamaica, Mark Chisholm (right), greets Director General in the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Mrs. Sharon Crooks (centre), while Head of the National Spatial Management Division at the Ministry, Rohan Richards (right), looks on. Occasion was a GIS Business Forum, held at the Mona Visitor’s Lodge, Wednesday, November 13.

GIS Serving 60 Government Entities

By: Garfield L. Angus, November 14, 2013
Environmental Engineer, National Works Agency (NWA), Dr. Mark Richards, outlining to JIS News the breakwater structures to be constructed to protect the Negril coastline.

Offshore – Breakwater Structure to Protect Negril Coastline

By: Peta-Gay Hodges, November 13, 2013

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Director of the Spatial Planning Division of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Leonard Francis (centre), addressing a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on October 31. Others are (from left): Janet Hyde, Snr. Manager in the Spatial Planning Division of NEPA and Geronimo Tuzo, member of the Jamaica Institute of Planners.
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World Town Planning Day to Focus on Water

On Friday, November 8, Jamaica will join the rest of the international community in observing World Town Planning Day (WTPD), which will focus on expanding access to, and encouraging more efficient...
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By: Rodger Hutchinson, November 1, 2013