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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 spokesperson for the local Puerto Bueno Mountain stakeholders, Wendy Lee, the leading players in the...

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 Minister's (OPM) website by environmentalists in response to the Government's decision to grant a mining licence to Jamaica World LLC to carry out mining activities in the ecologically-sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains. The mo...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 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 year's 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 incommunicado till late in the evening. Ominously, Mr Banerjee, the Forests Minister and the MLA ...