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Environment
No new building for NEPA soon
BY DENISE DENNIS Observer staff reporter dennisd@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
MINISTER of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Robert Pickerskill has made no indication that the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) will be receiving the well-needed office location that they are seeking any time soon.
In a tour of the agency this afternoon, where he met with the executive body and was introduced to the angency’s different branches, Pickersgill told media personnel that he will see what he can do but that there are constraints.
The angency now operates from several different locations in rented spaces.
He noted that the need for a centralised location was pointed out to him by NEPA’s executive in an earlier meeting.
“We will see what we can do but you know the constraints that we are operating under now,” he said.
 
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