Auditor General’s performance audit report of the National Environment and Planning Agency (2010)
Performance Audit Report of the National Environment and Planning Agency’s Role in Protecting the Environment and Promoting Sustainable Development (2010) by the Auditor General.
Comments on the Draft Great Goat Island Management Plan (2019 – 2024)
JET’s comments on the Draft Great Goat Island Management Plan (2019 – 2024) circulated by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA).
Comments on the Draft Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area Zoning Plan (2014 – 19) and Management Plan (2016 – 2021)
JET’s final comments on the Draft Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area Zoning Plan (2014-2019) [A revision of the Draft Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area Zoning Plan (2014-2019), published in 2014] and the Final Draft of the Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area Management Plan (2016-2021) [A revision of the Final Draft Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area Management Plan (2015-2020), published […]
Legal Opinion on the Plastic Ban
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 […]
Final Comments on Guidelines – Beach Sand Quarrying
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
Public Defender’s investigative report into March 2015 fire at Riverton City Dump Disposal site.
JET’s review of post permit monitoring Royalton Hotels Jamaica
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.
Submission on the Revision of the Noise Abatement Act (2019)
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: