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WiredJA News Team Environment 18 September 2024

GHANA | Galamsey: Mining for Gold, Ghana's Environmental Poison

ACCRA, Ghana, September 18, 2024 - In the heart of West Africa, a nation once celebrated as the "Gold Coast" now finds itself teetering on the brink of an environmental catastrophe. Ghana, a country blessed with abundant natural resources, is watching helplessly as its rivers turn to sludge and its forests wither away.

WiredJA News Team Environment 18 September 2024

GHANA | Galamsey: Mining for Gold, Ghana's Environmental Poison

JAMAICA | Our mangroves are critical and require our focused attention says Frazer Binns

Kingston, Jamaica. July 26, 2024: For a country like Jamaica, which is a Small Island Developing State, we must accelerate our efforts to protect and restore our mangrove ecosystems.

WiredJA News Team Environment 27 July 2024

WEATHER | Hurricane Beryl Barrels towards Barbados and the Windward Isles

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, June 30, 2024 - Hurricane Beryl is posing a significant threat to Barbados and the Windward Islands, with hurricane warnings issued for Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, and...

WiredJA News Team Environment 30 June 2024

BARBADOS | PM Mottley launches searing attack on industrialised nations at Cop27 climate talks

Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley has criticised industrialised nations for failing the developing world on the climate crisis. In a searing attack at the Cop27 UN climate talks Mottley said...

WiredJA News Team Environment 08 November 2022

PNP Concerned about Jamaican Students Studying in Cuba

KINGSTON, Jamaica: The People’s National Party is expressing concern for the welfare of Cuban residents and Jamaican students currently studying in Cuba, following the landfall of Hurricane Ian on Tuesday.

WiredJA News Team Environment 30 September 2022

Mia Mottley Calls For Multinational Business help To Aid Climate Crisis

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, September 27, 2022 - Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has called for contributions from multinational companies to address issues resulting from the climate crisis, as she...

WiredJA News Team Environment 28 September 2022

WEATHER | Tropical Storm Ian heads towards Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Cuba

KINGSTON, Jamaica, September 24, 2022 - A TROPICAL STORM WATCH for Jamaica remains in effect as the season's 9"' named storm Tropical Storm Ian, forms over the central Caribbean Sea...

WiredJA News Team Environment 24 September 2022

WEATHER | Severe Weather Alert for Jamaica, Cayman, Cuba

MONTEGO BAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 - Tropical Depression #9 has formed over the Central Caribbean Sea and is expected to continue its slow strengthening over the next couple of days...

WiredJA News Team Environment 23 September 2022

Caribbean on Severe Weather Alert - Developing Systems Threaten Region

The Meteorological Service has issued a severe weather alert for Jamaica. In its bulletin at 5 o'clock Wednesday evening, the Met Service said a strong tropical wave is producing an...

WiredJA News Team Environment 22 September 2022

WEATHER | Tropical Storm Fiona claims one life in Guadeloupe, Floods Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico

Tropical Storm Fiona is now forecast to become a Category 1 hurricane by the middle of next week, after it lashed Guadeloupe, the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico with heavy...

WiredJA News Team Environment 18 September 2022

Hurricane watch issued for Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico ahead of Tropical Storm Fiona

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, September 17, 2022 - As Tropical Storm Fiona continues to make its way across the Caribbean, some strengthening is expected as it moves near the Virgin Islands,...

WiredJA News Team Environment 17 September 2022

WEATHER | Three disturbances form in the Atlantic producing heavy showers

The National Hurricane Centre in Miami is reporting that shower and thunderstorm activity associated with an area of low pressure located several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles has...

WiredJA News Team Environment 31 August 2022

JAMAICA | While not supporting a moratorium, Jamaica Gov't wants regulations in place for deep sea mining to proceed

KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 4, 2022 - Despite calls from Civil Society that Jamaica supports a universal moratorium on deep sea mining, the government intimates that it will support deep-sea mining...

WiredJA News Team Environment 05 August 2022

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