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Environment
News about Environmental Issues in Jamaica
Wray & Nephew’s US$7-M Wastewater Plan
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
With its tufts of brown grass interspersed by patches of bare, parched earth, the football field at Wray & Nephew’s Spanish Town Road complex has certainly seen better days. But there is a rescue plan afoot for the plot which offers diversion for scores of employees. The local wines and spirits produ ...more
Sandals Whitehouse grooming young reefers, forest keepers
Saturday, September 24, 2016
SANDALS Whitehouse has taken a bold move towards environmental preservation by inducting 21 impressionable young minds into its Reef and Forest Keepers Club — part of a pilot programme geared at creating future environmental stewards and encour ...more
Climate change dominates opening of 71st session of UN Assembly
Friday, September 23, 2016
NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) kicked off on Tuesday here with more than 140 heads of state and government and a yearly tradition of speeches made to the 193 member states of the chief deliberative, policymaking and repr ...more
Guy Harvey in Jamaica for 30th anniversary documentary, MoBay Marlin Tournament
Friday, September 23, 2016
German-born, Jamaican-raised conservationist, artist and marine biologist Guy Harvey is now in Jamaica to participate in the 55th Montego Bay Annual International Marlin Tournament and to continue documenting his life’s work in both the art and ...more
CDB exec says region must find new ways to manage marine resources
Thursday, September 22, 2016
BRIDGETOWN,Barbados (CMC) — A senior official of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says regional countries need to find new, efficient and sustainable approaches to managing terrestrial and marine resources.
CDB Director of P ...more
International Clean-up Day working in the west
Thursday, September 22, 2016
LUCEA, Hanover — Project manager at the Rotary Club of Lucea Mervin Spence says it appears that residents of Lucea and its environs are becoming more conscious about the need for a clean environment.
“People are getting more educated a ...more
16,000 lbs of garbage!
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Volunteers from corporate companies, schools, social clubs, etc, who worked the Palisadoes Strip in Kingston on Saturday morning — observed around the world as International Coastal Cleanup — carted off 1,100 bags of garbage weighing some ...more
PHOTO: Hellshire Beach clean-up
Monday, September 19, 2016
Claudine McCalla Miller (centre) Scotiabank director, employee consultation explains to a group of Scotia volunteers the serious impact of plastic on marine life and the ecosystem. McCalla Miller was at the start of the beach clean-up at Hellshire Be ...more
‘Land of soda bottles and styrofoam boxes’
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Just days ahead of International Coastal Clean-up (ICC) Day this Saturday, when thousands of volunteers will work to clear 142 beach and underwater sites across the island of garbage, one private sector manager is deploring the act of irresponsible g ...more
Caribbean Sea earns US$400B a year
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
A World Bank report released yesterday has put the economic value of the Caribbean Sea to the region — to include all its services, from fishing, transport, trade, tourism, mining, waste disposal, energy, carbon sequestration and drug developme ...more
Deadline for CCIC Accelerator programme is Sept 9
Wednesday, September 07, 2016
APPLICATIONS for the Caribbean Climate Innovation Center’s (CCIC) Accelerator Programme will close on Friday, September 9.
The six-month programme, which offers mentorship, guidance as well as resources to entrepreneurs in the field of ‘ ...more
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