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Category: Wellness
Wellness Growth In Jamaica – A Closer Look At Social Development
Imagine a place where the rhythm of reggae beats in the air, where lush mountains give way to turquoise seas, and where the warmth of the sun meets the cool breeze of the…
Discovery Bauxite adds 136,000 trees to National Tree Planting Programme
THE Government’s National Tree Planting Programme has received significant support from Discovery Bauxite, with a total of 136,000 trees planted by company employees and local community residents across St Ann. According to Vice-President…
Mexican coastal town destroyed by climate change
EL BOSQUE, Mexico (AP) — People moved to El Bosque in the 1980s to fish. Setting out into the Gulf of Mexico in threes and fours, fishermen returned with buckets of tarpon and…
Earth is running a fever and UN climate talks are focusing on human health
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With planet Earth running a fever, United Nations climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious effects on human health. Under a brown haze over Dubai the COP28…
Green Climate Fund approves grant for Caribbean countries
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC) — Caribbean Community (Caricom) officials Friday praised the South Korea-based Green Climate Fund (GCF) after it approved a grant for further development of the Blue Co Caribbean Umbrella…
Lifespan Spring Water, students, teachers & parents rally to clean up Buff Bay fishing beach
BUFF BAY, PORTLAND — Workers from Lifespan Spring Water and their CEO Nayana Williams, along with students, teachers and parents from Liberty Learning Centre, rallied Saturday morning to clean up the Buff Bay…
Marine Park exec alarmed by uptick in plastic use
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Executive director of the Montego Bay Marine Park Trust, Hugh Shim is calling on the authorities to enforce the ban on single-use plastics, especially the clear ones. There…
Playing catch-up
MINISTER with responsibility for the environment, Senator Matthew Samuda says work to protect mangroves should have started decades ago but because of a lax approach, Government and other stakeholders are scampering to put…
Save the mangroves plan takes off
The mission: Save the mangroves. Trouble is brewing, and The University of the West Indies (UWI) Solutions for Developing Countries (SODECO) says it had to step in. About 45 per cent of the…