T he Gleaner congratulates Leonard Francis on his promotion to the post of chief executive officer of Jamaica’s National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA). We, as is likely to be the case with most people, welcome his pledge to deepen.
A company is seeking the intervention of Prime Minister Andrew Holness in its push to convert a New Kingston residential lot into a parking lot for a proposed multimillion-dollar business, hoping that he will overturn a state regulator’s “tainted”.
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It is infrequent that Jamaicans have cause to celebrate the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) for its actions to protect the island’s environment. They should do so now with respect to the NRCA’s, and the Town and Country Planning.
A mining company that proposed a multimillion-dollar business for Alligator Pond in southern Manchester will have to look elsewhere after Jamaica’s environment regulators refused its application for a permit, citing the potential for worsening.