>KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 9, 2022: Following a Sunday Gleaner story that despite having missed two bond-payment deadlines, Bengal Developments, the company that wants to mine in the sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains is still on track to recieve a mining licence from the government, the People's National Party is appealing to Minster Robert Montaque, who has responsibility for Mining, not to grant a permit for the parcel of land on which Bengal wants to mine..
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KINGSTON, Jamaica: The People’s National Party is disappointed with the announcement that the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) has granted a permit for the mining of lands that are part...
MONTEGO BAY, St. James, December 15, 2021 - The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) has commenced work on a multi-million-dollar project to protect the Montego Bay waterfront in St. James.
KINGSTON, December 10, 2021 - The Peoples National Party has lamented the increased rate at which Jamaica has been experiencing environmental degradation highlighted by the lack of adequate land planning...
Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change – and in particular, when the...
KINGSTON, November 4, 2021 - The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says it has taken note of the comments made by the People's National Party (PNP) as it relates to the...
KINGSTON, November 4, 2021:- The People’s National Party, Shadow Minister of Land, Environment and Climate Change, Sophia Frazer-Binns, says she fully supports the 'Action on Forests and Land Use' declaration....
KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 3, 2021 :- People’s National Party Shadow Minister of Land Environment & Climate Change Sophia Frazer-Binns says there are grave inconsistencies between the words of Prime Minister...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 2, 2021 - The Government of Jamaica is to receive a US$1 million grant from the Government of India to boost its resilience building efforts.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 2, 2021 - Prime Minister Andrew Holness, says countries that have profited the most from carbon over decades, have a responsibility to make resources and technology available...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 2, 2021 - Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaicans are to prepare for significant developments to address informal, irregular, and dangerous settlements. This, as he officially reopened...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nov. 1, 2021 - If the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) is to deliver on the promises made in the Paris Agreement, it...
KINGSTON, October 31, 2021: Opposition Spokesperson on Land, Environment & Climate Change, Senator Sophia Frazer-Binns, has called on the National Environmental Protection Agency, NEPA, to again review the Environmental Impact...