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IT has taken decades to reduce Peake Bay in Clarendon to a graveyard of mangroves — and it could take just as long and even longer for restoration efforts now under way to bear fruit. Professor T...

The decision to fund medications to treat H.I.V.-AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean flew in the face of expert advice. But the U.S. did it anyway.

IT will cost Jamaica at least US$280 million to save downtown Kingston from the serious effects of coastal erosion according to Matthew Samuda, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Econom...

MINISTER with responsibility for the environment, Senator Matthew Samuda says work to protect mangroves should have started decades ago but because of a lax approach, Government and other stakehol...

Early policy statements of President Bola Tinubu, suggest that the days of continuous tightening of monetary policy with the aim of taming surging inflationary pressure in Nigeria may have been over.

Climate change threatens the planet's survival — and Caribbean nations are on the front line. That was the response given by Judith Slater, British High Commissioner to Jamaica, when asked why ...

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The forecast by local scientists that hundreds of people living in Clarendon's southern coastal region could be exposed to a disaster of cataclysmic proportions if the island gets hit by a major w...

The mission: Save the mangroves. Trouble is brewing, and The University of the West Indies (UWI) Solutions for Developing Countries (SODECO) says it had to step in. About 45 per cent of the mangr...

Fewer children are starving, fewer moms are dying and terrible diseases are retreating.