Attention: All News Editors                                    

23 August 2022

Kingston, Jamaica

This morning at approximately 8am, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) received a video report that was being widely circulated of an alleged pollution incident along the Rio Cobre River at Zephyrton, close to the Linstead area in St Catherine.

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) / has issued a Notice of Intention to Suspend to Jamaica Zoo Attractions Limited  Environmental Permit No. 2016-11017-EP00004 for the operation of a zoo. The Zoo is therefore ordered closed to the public effective 1 June 2022 until the company complies with the conditions sited in the Notice.

KINGSTON , Jamaica

Attention: All News Editors                                            

(10 June 2020):

ADVISORY: NEPA INVESTIGATING POSSIBLE FISH KILL IN DAWKINS PEN, KINGSTON HARBOUR

The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) received reports of a fish kill within the Kingston Harbour in the vicinity of the mouth of the Dawkins Pond in the Port Henderson area. The report was received at approximately 9:30 am on Friday, 10 June 2022.