On September 17, 2018, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, the Hon. Daryl Vaz, announced the Government of Jamaica’s (GOJ’s) new strategy to address the country’s widespread problem of plastic pollution at a press conference at the Office of the Prime Minister in Kingston, Jamaica. A ban on the […]

Comments on Draft Guidelines – Beach Sand Quarrying (December 2017) done by theMinistry of Economic Growth and Job Creation. Evaluation prepared by Jamaica Environment Trust with technical assistance from Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (February 2018)

Public Defender’s investigative report into March 2015 fire at Riverton City Dump Disposal site.

Using the Access to Information Act, the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) sought and received NEPA’s Post Permit Monitoring Reports for the two Royalton Hotels (one on the old Grand Lido site, Rutland Pen in Negril, the other at Coopers Pen, Trelawny) in Jamaica.

In 2019 the Government of Jamaica began consultations on its planned amendments to the Noise Abatement Act (1997). JET has submitted comments to the MInsitry of National Security on the matter, which can be viewed here:

JET’s comments on the Draft Black River Protected Landscape Management Plan (2017 – 2022) which was prepared by Susan Otuokon, Ph.D. for the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) in June 2016. Evaluation prepared with technical assistance from Dr Heidi S. W. Weiskel, Staff Scientist, Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide.

In 2005 JET, the Northern Jamaica Conservation Association (NJCA) and four individuals from the Runaway Bay area formed an alliance to file a judicial review action on the decision to grant an environmental permit to Hoteles Jamaica Pinero Ltd. (HOJAPI) to build a 1,918 room hotel at Pear Tree Bottom in St Ann. A summary […]

In 2005 JET, the Northern Jamaica Conservation Association (NJCA) and four individuals from the Runaway Bay area formed an alliance to file a judicial review action on the decision to grant an environmental permit to Hoteles Jamaica Pinero Ltd. (HOJAPI) to build a 1,918 room hotel at Pear Tree Bottom in St Ann. This is […]

In 2005 JET, the Northern Jamaica Conservation Association (NJCA) and four individuals from the Runaway Bay area formed an alliance to file a judicial review action on the decision to grant an environmental permit to Hoteles Jamaica Pinero Ltd. (HOJAPI) to build a 1,918 room hotel at Pear Tree Bottom in St Ann. This is […]

The Government of Jamaica is desirous of implementing legislation for the mandatory evacuation of citizens in those areas threatened by natural disasters, the forced removal of those who refuse to relocate, and the creation of “no build” zones to ensure no physical development takes place within these zones. The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) was requested […]