The National Water Commission (NWC) is moving aggressively to implement measures to alleviate drought conditions, which are expected to continue to affect the island over the next two months. President...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) will be doing further tests to determine the source of the chemical pollutant, which affected scores of persons near the vicinity of the...

A mangrove replanting project is currently underway at Portland Cottage, in Clarendon. A delegation from the European Union (EU), the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the National Environment and...

The Jubilee Market in downtown Kingston is scheduled to be renovated next month, Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Angela Brown Burke, has announced. The Mayor made the disclosure during the monthly...

Over 29,000 residents of eastern St. Mary are to benefit from improvements to the water system serving their communities, through $800 million in investment by the National Water Commission (NWC)...

A total of 1,000 residents of St. Ann, St. Mary and Portland are to receive titles to the properties they occupy. The provision is being made under the Cadastral Mapping...

Activities under the Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP) have been boosted, with the provision of motor vehicles and equipment by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). The donation, inclusive...

Two publications by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), which address the issue of climate change, are to be tabled in Parliament shortly by Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change...

Plans are far advanced for the merger of the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) with the Forest Conservation Fund (FCF)/Jamaica Protected Areas Trust (JPAT). The amalgamation of the agencies is...

Legislation to facilitate the withdrawal of $11.4 billion annually from the National Housing Trust (NHT), to provide budgetary support over the next four years, was passed on Tuesday, March 5,...

The Government is looking to see how it can improve assistance to residents in drought stricken parishes. Approximately half the island is now being affected by worsening drought conditions due...