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Meteorologist and Quality Manager at the Meteorological Service of Jamaica Kareen Gourzong (right) converses with Mrs. Shelly Lawson-Francis of Ja Reach 2.

Met Service Hosts World Meteorological Day Photo Competition

By: O. Rodger Hutchinson, March 9, 2016

Local amateur photographers are being invited to enter the Meteorological Service of Jamaica’s (Met Service) World Meteorological Day Photo Competition. Persons are encouraged to submit images that best depict the World...

Wild birds nesting in trees along the banks of one of Jamaica’s protected wetlands.

NEPA to Present Wildlife Monitoring Kit to Customs

By: Roger Hutchinson, March 3, 2016

A crocodile in the Black River wetlands in St. Elizabeth.

NEPA To Award Top Photos In World Wetlands Day Competition

By: O. Rodger Hutchinson, March 2, 2016

Environment 10 years ago Improved Water Supply For St. Catherine Communities
By: O. Rodger Hutchinson , February 20, 2016
Environment 10 years ago Work Completed on Innswood Artificial Groundwater System
By: O. Rodger Hutchinson , February 20, 2016
Environment 10 years ago Charlemont Residents Receive Land Titles
By: Chad Bryan, February 19, 2016

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Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill.

10 years ago Environment

Keep Water Storage Containers Covered – Pickersgill

Minister for Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, is advising persons engaged in rainwater harvesting, to ensure that storage facilities are properly covered so that they do...

By: O. Rodger Hutchinson, February 18, 2016

Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (right), listens to a point being raised by Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Board/Commission of Strata Corporations (REB/CSC), Elise Wright-Goffe. Occasion was the official launch of the Real Estate Training Institute (RETI), at the head offices of the REB/CSC, in New Kingston, today (February 16).

10 years ago Environment

New Real Estate Training Institute to Roll Out Courses

The newly established Real Estate Training Institute (RETI), located at 1 Surbiton Road, in Kingston, will begin rolling out its first set of courses in March. Officially launched today (February...

By: Alecia Smith-Edwards, February 17, 2016

10 years ago EnvironmentHealth & Wellness

Ministry of Health will Launch National Cleanup Day under Operation: Mosquito Search & Destroy Initiative

The Ministry of Health in partnership with several stakeholders will embark on a National cleanup day dubbed “Operation Mosquito Search and Destroy” this Saturday, February 20, 2016. In a recent...

By: Fiona Fennell, February 14, 2016

Leader of the Opposition, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, O.N, M.P

10 years ago EnvironmentHealth & WellnessOffice of the Prime MinisterPrime Minister

Government Decisively Tackles Zika Virus Threat; PM Calls for Personal and National Action

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has assured the nation that the Government is decisively implementing effective vector control measures in light of the Zika Virus threat facing...

By: Communications Unit-OPM, February 3, 2016

10 years ago Environment

NEPA Holds Consultation on Use of Black River

Residents of St. Elizabeth are being invited to participate in a special stakeholder public meeting on Tuesday, February 2, for discussion surrounding the use of the Black River. The public...

By: Rodger Hutchinson , February 2, 2016

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller (right), presents Jennel Cross-Williams with a land title during a Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP) Land Titling ceremony held at the Linstead Baptist Church in St. Catherine on Friday (Jan. 29). Mrs. Cross-Williams collected the document on behalf her mother, Winsome Brown-Grant.

10 years ago Environment

More Lamp Beneficiaries to Access $90.8 Million Grant Facility

More Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP) beneficiaries are to receive support under the $90.8 million grant facility set up by the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ, to enable them...

By: Alecia Smith-Edwards, January 30, 2016

10 years ago Climate ChangeEnvironmentVision 2030

Gov’t Launches Phase Two of Climate Resilience Project

The Government will continue work to strengthen the country’s resistance against the impacts of climate change, under the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR II). Phase two of the programme, the...

By: Douglas McIntosh, January 28, 2016

Minister of Health, Hon. Horace Dalley (left), shares a warm handshake with Chairman of Food For the Poor (FFP), Andrew Mahfood (right), while Executive Director of FFP, David Mair, shares the moment. Occasion was the handing over of 76 semi-electric hospital beds to the health sector, at FFP’s headquarters in Spanish Town, St. Catherine on Tuesday (Jan. 26). The beds, valued at US$57,000, were procured by FFP through funding from J. Wray and Nephew.

10 years ago EnvironmentHealth & Wellness

Retired Public Health Inspectors to be engaged in Eradicating Mosquito Breeding Sites

The Government will be contracting the services of retired public health inspectors to help eradicate mosquito breeding sites across the country. The move comes as preparations for the Zika Virus...

By: Garfield L. Angus, January 28, 2016

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NEPA to Present Wildlife Monitoring Kit to Customs

NEPA To Award Top Photos In World Wetlands Day Competition

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Keep Water Storage Containers Covered – Pickersgill

New Real Estate Training Institute to Roll Out Courses

Ministry of Health will Launch National Cleanup Day under Operation: Mosquito Search & Destroy Initiative

Government Decisively Tackles Zika Virus Threat; PM Calls for Personal and National Action

NEPA Holds Consultation on Use of Black River

More Lamp Beneficiaries to Access $90.8 Million Grant Facility

Gov’t Launches Phase Two of Climate Resilience Project

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