- O-Wrap: Buju's ticket website crashes... Quake felt in St Catherine... CPL economic impact hits US$127m 2:04 pm
- Cabinet to hold three days of consultations 7:49 pm
- Region urged to prepare for possibility of severe outbreak of Dengue fever 7:42 pm
- JPS, NWC pay customers $37m for service breaches 7:23 pm
- Firearm seized during party in Waterhouse 7:05 pm
- JPS, NWC failing to notify customers of planned disruptions, OUR says 6:33 pm
Environment
Massive boom hopes to corral Pacific Ocean's plastic trash
SAN FRANCISCO, USA (AP) — Engineers have deployed a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world's, largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. Read More
Tackling climate change to be key talking point at UN summit
BERLIN, Germany (AP) — With global temperatures rising, superstorms taking their deadly toll, and a year-end deadline to firm up the Paris climate deal, leaders at this year's UN General Assembly are feeling a sense of urgency to keep up the momentum on combating climate... Read More
High cost of carbon
FOR the first time, researchers have developed a data set quantifying what the social cost of carbon — the measure of the economic harm from carbon dioxide emissions — will be for each of the globe's nearly 200 countries, and the results are surprising. The top three emitting... Read More
TEF invests $10 million in 2018 International Coastal Cleanup
The Government, which previously mooted withdrawing the Tourism Enhancement Fund's (TEF) sponsorship of International Coastal Cleanup Day (ICC), spearheaded locally by Jamaica Environment Trust (JET), has pumped approximately $10 million into the project this year, two million more than... Read More
Wisynco launches 2018 corporate
JAMAICA Observer is among six corporate bodies vying to collect the lion's share of 300,000 plastic bottles in 10 weeks, as part of Wisynco Group's ECO Recycle Challenge targeting corporate Jamaica. Read More
Coastal clean-up day two Saturdays away
International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day 2018 is set for Saturday, September 15, with national coordinator Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) aiming to have Jamaica ranked in the global top 10 in terms of number of volunteers participating. Read More
400 clean Danube tributary in 'Plastic Cup'
From food packaging in shops to straws in bars, single-use plastics are so ubiquitous in modern society that they can be hard to avoid while navigating through daily life. As a result, plastic waste is now reaching sites that were either pristine or, if contaminated by other means, were... Read More
Recycling with a view in Long Mountain
Long Mountain Country Club, high in the hills of St Andrew, has started an initiative which will see residents of the gated community separating plastic bottles from the rest of their garbage and storing it for pick-up by re recycling Read More
Banning straws and bags won't solve our plastic problem
It seems to be the summer of plastic bans. Starbucks, Hyatt, the city of Seattle, and others have all committed to phase out plastic straws. Stafford Township in New Jersey passed a plastic bag ban just last month, joining dozens of other American cities and states... Read More
Scientist condemns slaughter of stranded whale
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC) — A scientist with The Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation (BMMRO) says she remains “horrified' that someone used a knife to cut a three-foot-long fatal wound into the sides of a stranded pilot whale that beached over the... Read More
Regional experts to sharpen enviro communication
Environmental experts from across the region are expected to meet in Kingston next week to work on improving the way they communicate environmental data with policymakers so as to ensure continued sustainable development in the region. Read More
Celebrating water bill reduction
Beneficiaries of JN Water project cite savings, longer showers Read More
Bartlett calls for collaboration to counter climate change
TOURISM Minister Edmund Bartlett is calling for collaboration between Caribbean media interests, and public and private sector entities to develop strategies designed to strengthen regional resilience to the impact of climate change. Read More
Regional coastal erosion monitoring tower to be installed at Hellshire
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade says Jamaica will be home to the region's first coastal erosion monitoring tower, to be placed at the Hellshire Beach in the central parish of St Cathereine. Read More
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