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WiredJA News Team Environment 09 January 2022

JAMAICA | PNP demands that Gov't Refuse Bengal Developments Permit to Mine Dry Harbour Mountains

>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..

WiredJA News Team Environment 09 January 2022

JAMAICA | PNP demands that Gov't Refuse Bengal Developments Permit to Mine Dry Harbour Mountains

JAMAICA |“Cockpit Country Remains Under Threat” says Opposition

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...

WiredJA News Team Environment 06 January 2022

JAMAICA | UDC Commences Work On Project To Protect Mo’Bay Waterfront

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.

WiredJA News Team Environment 16 December 2021

JAMAICA | PNP Laments increased environmental degradation

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...

WiredJA News Team Environment 10 December 2021

What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

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...

Benjamin Franta Environment 20 November 2021

JAMAICA | JLP Proud of Environmental Achievements

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...

WiredJA News Team Environment 04 November 2021

JAMAICA | PNP Endorses the Glasgow Declaration on Forests and Land Use

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....

WiredJA News Team Environment 04 November 2021

JAMAICA | PNP's Frazer-Binns Flays Andrew Holness' hypocrisy at COP26

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...

WiredJA News Team Environment 04 November 2021

JAMAICA | Jamaica's Resilience building gets US Million dollar boost from Gov't of India

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.

WiredJA News Team Environment 03 November 2021

JAMAICA | Holness wants Carbon beneficiaries to finance climate Change initiatives

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...

WiredJA News Team Environment 03 November 2021

JAMAICA | Holness to give more oversight to squatter settlements

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...

WiredJA News Team Environment 02 November 2021

Failure to provide climate adapation finance immoral and unjust says Mia Mottley

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...

Sharon Austin, BGIS Environment 02 November 2021

JAMAICA | Senator Sophia Frazer Binns demands Revision of the EIA Process

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...

WiredJA News Team Environment 31 October 2021

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JAMAICA | PNP demands that Gov't Refuse Bengal Developments Permit to Mine Dry Harbour Mountains

JAMAICA |“Cockpit Country Remains Under Threat” says Opposition

JAMAICA | UDC Commences Work On Project To Protect Mo’Bay Waterfront

JAMAICA | PNP Laments increased environmental degradation

What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

JAMAICA | JLP Proud of Environmental Achievements

JAMAICA | PNP Endorses the Glasgow Declaration on Forests and Land Use

JAMAICA | PNP's Frazer-Binns Flays Andrew Holness' hypocrisy at COP26

JAMAICA | Jamaica's Resilience building gets US Million dollar boost from Gov't of India

JAMAICA | Holness wants Carbon beneficiaries to finance climate Change initiatives

JAMAICA | Holness to give more oversight to squatter settlements

Failure to provide climate adapation finance immoral and unjust says Mia Mottley

JAMAICA | Senator Sophia Frazer Binns demands Revision of the EIA Process

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