The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has received $13 Million from China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), towards assisting persons and schools badly affected by Hurricane Sandy....

Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon.  Robert Pickersgill, has disclosed that the Government is implementing steps to improve strategies, to enable the island to withstand the impact...

Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Ronald Jackson, says that aid has been coming in from countries and organisations that pledged assistance to the...

Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Luther Buchanan, is to coordinate the Government's hurricane recovery and relief programme. This was disclosed by Prime Minister, the...

A member of the Jamaica Institute of Planners, Doreen Prendergast, has supported the move by Government to establish a regulatory body to deal with environmental monitoring, compliance and enforcement. Ms....

Seven schools and a number of small farmers that were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy will get assistance from Scotiabank to aid in their repair and recovery. Like Us Facebook...

The Government of Jamaica has responded to the call of residents and tourism stakeholders in Negril for increased measures to protect the area’s world famous beaches. Approximately 2,500 metres of...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Roger Clarke, says there may be a need to consider how weather information is packaged and presented so that it has more relevance and...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Roger Clarke, says that substantial new resources, new ideas and new ways of doing business are needed to address the challenges of climate change. The...

The National Water Commission (NWC) has assured that the damage to the Yallahs pipeline will not affect the supply of water to communities served by the Mona reservoir. The pipeline,...

Efforts will be made to truck water to areas in East St. Thomas that are still without their regular supplies. Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert...