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    Yallahs-Hope Project Trains Farmers To "Farm Out The Drought"
    Published Date: May 13, 2019
    Over 500 farmers in 13 communities in the Yallahs and Hope Rivers Watershed Management Unit (WMUs), in St. Thomas and St. Andrew have been trained in better land management practices to prevent soil erosion, increase crop yields, improve their livelihoods and the quality of water supplied to the Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA).
  • NEPA Celebrates National Environmental Awareness Week (NEAW) 2019
    Published Date: May 31, 2019

    Attention: All News Editors                                                                                          KINGSTON, Jamaica

    (May 31, 2019):

                                                                     NEPA Celebrates National Environmental Awareness Week (NEAW) 2019

    The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) - and other regulatory stakeholders- will celebrate National Environmental Awareness Week (NEAW) from June 2-9, 2019. The theme for the week is, “A Better Environment = A Better Life… Do the Right Thing!”

  • Joint Statement on the death of Wilford Edmondson - NEPA and UDC
    Published Date: August 29, 2018

    Attention: All News Editors                                                      KINGSTON, Jamaica

    (August 29, 2018):

                                                             STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF WILFORD EDMONDSON

    The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and Urban Development Corporation (UDC) acknowledge the tragic passing of Mr Wilford Edmondson and express condolences to his family on the loss of their loved one.

  • NEPA responds to call for suspension of bird hunting season
    Published Date: June 30, 2014

    THE EDITOR, Sir:

    The National Environment and Planning Agency's (NEPA) takes this opportunity to respond to a letter written by Authnel S. Reid, published on 24 July 2014. It is a fact that NEPA is responsible for the administering of the annual game bird hunting season under the Wild Life Protection Act (1945).

  • Clearing the air on the Portland Development Order
    Published Date: May 02, 2014

    Dear Mr. Editor, Sir

    In a Sunday Gleaner article dated Sunday, April 20, 2014 and titled, 'Rejected- Portland stakeholders say no to provisional plan to govern development of the parish', some issues were raised of which the Authority would like to address.

    The Town and Country Planning Authority (TCPA) welcomes feedback and comments received for the Portland Provisional Development Order.