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Head of National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) Peter Knight fumbled before the P...

DISCUSSIONS with the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and its parent minis...

The local stakeholders of Puerto Bueno Mountain, St Ann, have raised concerns about the failed petition on the Office of the Prime Minister’s (OPM) website to stop mining in the Dry Harbour Mountains. At the close of the 40-day period to garner 15,000 signatures, the petition posted by the OPM received only 5,548. Had it gained the requisite number of signatures, it would have prompted an official response from Prime Minister Andrew Holness. According to environmental educator, biologist and ...

A petition against mining in a section of the Dry Harbour Mountains in St Ann has failed to get the 15,000 signatures it needed to prompt an official response from Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The petition was created on November 17, and up to Sunday of this week, when it closed, it had received only 5,548 signatures. The petition was launched on the Office of the Prime Ministers (OPM) website by environmentalists in response to the Governments decision to grant a mining licence to Jamaica Wo...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees Trinamool has lost key leaders to the BJP (File) Kolkata: Four faces were missing from a cabinet meeting called by Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday, raising eyebrows over the possibility of yet more Trinamool leaders switching political camps ahead of next years Assembly election. Of the four, three offered perfectly valid explanations, Partha Chatterjee, the Secretary-General of the ruling party, said. Rajib Banerjee, the fourth, remained...

West Bengal Speaker rejects Suvendu’s resignation West Bengal Legislative Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee and rebel TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari Agency Photo Kolkata/New Delhi West Bengal legislative assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Friday refused to accept the resignation of Trinamool Congress lawmaker Suvendu Adhikari as it did not conform to the provisions of the Constitution and the rules of the House. Banerjee further said Adhikari has been asked to appear before him in person in hi...

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Major fire in north West Bengal market, 150 shops gutted Updated: Updated: December 18, 2020 15:17 IST The flames were spotted around 3 a.m. at the Dhupguri market by a shopkeeper, officials said. Share Article AAA The flames were spotted around 3 a.m. at the Dhupguri market by a shopkeeper, officials said. A major fire broke out at a market in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district in the early hours of Friday, gutting at least 150 shops, officials said. The flames were spotted around 3 a.m. a...

The fight to block mining in the ecologically sensitive Puerto Bueno Mountains on Jamaica’s northern coast is heading to the Supreme Court as residents are suing the Government and the mining company for alleged breaches of constitutional rights. The eight claimants filed their claim in the Supreme Court on Thursday against the attorney general, the Natural Resources and Conservation Authority (NRCA), and Bengal Development Limited, the owners of the 569-acre property in St Ann. They are al...