National Solid Waste News Today

WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of Hopewell, Hanover, are now crying for help to rid the town of a growing pile of metal waste, which is ballooning in the ‘River Gully’ area. They say that in addition to being an eyesore, there are also health concerns...

PUTRAJAYA: The approval period for six types of licences has been reduced from seven days to 24 hours under the Sistem i-Lesen introduced by the Local...

WESTERN BUREAU: MICHAEL MYLES, president of the Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors (JAPHI), has cautioned against conflating the mitigation of the dengue virus with that of an event. Myles, who spoke at the One Health, One Global...

Just one day after a woman in her late teens reportedly returned to Jamaica from the United States, she and her mother, who is in her mid-50s, were gunned down early Monday morning on Spanish ...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — A multi-agency partnership has been established in this western parish to monitor the dengue fever outbreak within the area. The partnership will see representatives of St...

By Robert A. Emmanuel robert.emmanuel@antiguaobserver.com Senator Rawdon Turner said the implementation of a new corporate environment levy could lead to the creation of innovative businesses as parliament approved changes to the Environmental Protection Levy Act. The changes include making local manufacturers pay 15 cents per container to the government via…

Plans outlined in the budget to limit duty-free concessions will unfairly hit already struggling residents, All Saints West MP Anthony Smith told Parliament yesterday. Over the past few days, Members of Parliament have been evaluating the $1.8-billion dollar budget presented by Finance Minister and Prime Minister Gaston Browne on March…

The way government contracts are given is set to be overhauled to avoid “abuse.” Prime Minister Gaston Browne made the announcement - citing departments including National Solid Waste, the Central Board of Health and Public Works in particular - while giving this year’s budget speech on Thursday. He said the…

MORANT BAY, St Thomas — Warning that there is once again an uptick in COVID-19 cases in St Thomas, which only has a 16 per cent vaccination rate, the parish's Medical Officer of Health Dr D'Oyen S...

In a presidential decree published in the Jornal de Angola, João Lourenço explained that there are "worrying levels of pollution resulting from the use of plastic in general"