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Planning Minister vows to take action- Warning issued to forest squatters

Published:  Friday, August 3, 2018 Flashback May 2017: Residents of Pine Drive, Valencia, return to their homes after a protest over the demolition of some squatter houses in the area by...

Public Lecture Series

The Institute of Marine Affairs is pleased to invite you to participate in their third lecture on ‘The EMA’s Role, Function and Activities towards the Science-based Management of T&T’s Oceans and...

Ministry and volunteers replant mangroves to save mudflats

Over the weekend of June 23 and 24, the Environmental Policy and Planning Division (EPPD) and the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) of the Ministry collaborated to conduct a mangrove replanting...

Government approves ban of Styrofoam in T&T by 2019

THE LATEST NEWS   Government approves ban of Styrofoam in T&T by 2019   Government has approved a ban in T&T on polystyrene foam products, such as Styrofoam, and this will be...

Public Notice- Aranguez North Land and Building Use Survey

The Town and Country Planning Division (T&CPD) advises that its officers will be undertaking a Land Building Use Survey in the areas of Aranguez North. This survey forms part of the process to...

Planning Ministry and IMA plants mangrove seedlings to curb coastal erosion

LABOUR OF LOVE: Volunteers plant mangrove seedlings at the Brickfield mudflats at Orange Field in Carapichaima yesterday. PHOTO BY VASHTI SINGH Trinidad and Tobago Newsdayhttp://newsday.co.tt/2018/06...

Scarlet Ibis officially declared an ‘Environmentally Sensitive Species’

THE LATEST NEWS   Scarlet Ibis officially declared an ‘Environmentally Sensitive Species’   It’s been described as “long overdue”, but only on Thursday this country officially...

MP, fisherfolk clean La Brea beaches

“Please stop littering and be responsible,” pleaded La Brea MP Nicole Olivierre as she helped remove mounds of garbage from the beaches in her constituency which washed ashore after recent floods....

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