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As Esther Figueroa pointed out, if someone has a license to prospect or mine on your land, you get just two weeks’ notice before operations begin. Of course, Jamaica was still a colony then! This documentfrom the Jamaica Environment Trust explains it very clearly. Firstly, the Mining Act of 1947 is in dire need of updating. Smith tried to clarify the legal situation regarding Cockpit Country. Students of Westwood High School and St Hilda’s High School at the Town Hall meeting. Ann and Westwood High School, situated in Stewart Town itself. The audience included mainly local people – farmers, residents, and students from two girls’ schools – St. David Smith, Coordinator for the Institute of Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Dixon – an Albert Town man filmmaker and activist Esther Figueroa and Dr. The topic was phrased as a debate: This House Would Declare the Cockpit Country a Special Protected Area With Its Own Legal Framework. Panelists were the untiring environmentalist at the Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency, Hugh M. If you would like to watch the two hour meeting in full, I shared it on my Facebook page here. Kudos to the EFJ for funding the meeting. The discussion was ably moderated by journalist Archibald Gordon. Cockpit Country: Is It Really All About the Boundaries?Ĭeiling fans whirred and night sounds crept through the windows of the Webb Memorial Baptist Church in Stewart Town, Trelawny earlier this evening.Ī Town Hall Meeting was in progress, streamed live on Facebook on the websites of the sponsors, the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ), the Public Access Channel (PAC) and the Jamaica Gleaner.

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