Come Sunday, November 8, 2009
Jamaica will join twenty-nine other countries to mark World Town
Planning Day (WTPD) under the theme: ‘Building Better
Communities’. Several activities have been organized by the
National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), to commemorate the
event. Among the plans is an Outside Broadcast (OB), which will be
aired on POWER 106 FM on WTPD, at 9:00 a.m.
The broadcast is scheduled to
coincide with the national church service which will be held, this
year, at the Fellowship Tabernacle in Kingston. A mini poster
exhibition will also be mounted on the church grounds. In addition,
newspaper supplements will also be published in the Gleaner and
Jamaica Observer dailies during the period. They are intended to
provide greater insight to the public about the role of town
planning in building better communities across Jamaica.
World Town Planning Day was
founded in 1949 by the late Argentinean Professor Carlos Maria della
Paolera of the University of Buenos Aires to advance public and
professional interest in planning, internationally.
NEPA is encouraging persons to
consume and reflect on the information to be published/ broadcast
during the period to mark World Town Planning Day.
