The Management Institute for National Development (MIND) has launched an 'Environmental Planning for Business Leaders' training programme, which is designed to enhance awareness of environmental management strategies among the private...

Christopher Sinckler, Executive Director of the Barbados-based Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), has said that developing nations, such as those in the Caribbean and Latin America, have not benefited much...

Several persons in Port Antonio had to be evacuated from their homes on Sunday (October 30), as a result of heavy rains which pelted Portland over the weekend. The rains...

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has issued 25 permits to automotive battery dealers across the island, in the agency's efforts to widen the net of collecting used lead...

The coconut beautification project being carried out on Pigeon Island has been hailed as an initiative that demonstrates that citizens do not have to always wait on government to make...

The community of Denbigh in Clarendon now has a Disaster Preparedness Committee, which will lead the community's response efforts in the event of a disaster. The group, which is comprised...

Young persons attending the Jamalco Environmental Summer Camp and athletes of the Jamalco Track Club in Clarendon got an opportunity yesterday (July 28), to hold the high tech Queen's baton...

Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport, Portia Simpson Miller has said that the Ministry would be implementing the 21 recommendations laid out in the Contractor General's report on...

Head of the Environmental Unit at the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), Worrell Lyew-You, has said that bauxite companies have been complying with the required standards as it relates to the...

The Northern Jamaica Conservation Association (NJCA), has embarked on an environmental education project. The project, supported by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ), CHASE Fund, St. Ann Chamber of Commerce...

Users of the Priory beach and Seville River in St. Ann are benefiting from more aesthetic surroundings thanks to the efforts of the Marcus Garvey Technical High School 4-H Club....