Accurate collation of data on the impact of climate change on Jamaica’s environment is essential to efforts to mitigate the damaging effects of this phenomenon. Against this background, State agencies,...

Stakeholders from across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), over the next three days, will be engaged in a workshop aimed at arriving at a roadmap towards ratification and implementation of the...

Scores of students from schools across the island converged at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies on Wednesday, November 20, to participate in activities marking Geographic...

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...

Director General in the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Mrs. Sharon Crooks, is reporting that some 60 Government entities are relying on Geographic Information System (GIS), and...

An offshore breakwater system is to be constructed along the Negril coastline, under the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) Adaptation Fund Programme. Grant funding in the sum of US$9.9 million has...

It will soon be mandatory for all housing developments to have provisions facilitating rain water harvesting whether or not they are connected to a central water supply system. Water, Land,...

Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, has renewed his appeal for more Jamaicans to harvest rainwater for domestic use. The Minister, who was addressing the...