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Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE (22/03/22) Long awaited but still leaves out important areas: JET acknowledges the recent announcement for the declaration of the Cockpit Country Protected Area

LETTER TO THE EDITOR (07/08/19) Response to August 4 article by Senator Robert Morgan (Letter published in the Sunday Gleaner 11/08/2019)

PRESS RELEASE (05/06/2019) JET STATEMENT FOLLOWING MINISTER MONTAGUE’S ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT ON BAUXITE MINING IN COCKPIT COUNTRY 

PRESS RELEASE (04/06/2019) New JET PSA highlights impacts of bauxite mining in Cockpit Country

ADVERTISEMENT (02/06/2019) Bauxite Mining still threatens Cockpit Country

PRESS RELEASE (30/05/2019) BAUXITE MINING STILL THREATENS COCKPIT COUNTRY

STATEMENT FROM COCKPIT COUNTRY COMMUNITIES (20/11/18) ONE YEAR FOLLOWING THE PRIME MINISTER’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COCKPIT COUNTRY BOUNDARY: Residents and civil society are dissatisfied with the progress towards its protection

PRESS RELEASE (31/10/2018) COCKPIT COUNTRY COMMUNITIES TO GOJ: STOP MINING IN COCKPIT COUNTRY! 

STATEMENT FROM COCKPIT COUNTRY COMMUNITIES (10/07/18) COCKPIT COUNTRY COMMUNITIES RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT PROTECTED AREA

PRESS RELEASE (23/11/17) COCKPIT COUNTRY STAKEHOLDERS WELCOME ANNOUNCEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER

PRESS RELEASE (31/10/17) JET CALLS ON THE PRIME MINISTER TO RESPOND TO THE COCKPIT COUNTRY PETITION

PRESS RELEASE (29/09/2017) 34,000 JAMAICANS TO PRIME MINISTER HOLNESS – SAVE COCKPIT COUNTRY

PRESS RELEASE (19/09/2017) – FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 IS SAVE COCKPIT COUNTRY DAY

Fact Sheets & Reports

Jamaica Environment Trust (2020) RED DIRT: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Bauxite-Alumina Industry in Jamaica (Executive Summary)

Jamaica Environment Trust (2020) RED DIRT: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Bauxite-Alumina Industry in Jamaica

Day, M. & Chenoweth, M. S. (2017) Cockpit Country Geohydrology and Hydrodynamics

Jamaica Environment Trust (2017) SAVE COCKPIT COUNTRY [2.0] Presentation to the JCSF and CVC Lunch-Learn-Lobby Forum, October 19

Jamaica Environment Trust and Windsor Research Centre (2017) Talking points regarding the threat of bauxite mining in Cockpit Country

McCaulay, D (2017) Five Reasons to Protect Cockpit Country

Water Resources Authority (2017) Rivers and Springs of Cockpit Country

Webber, D. and Noel, C. (2013) Technical Report on Public Consultations on defining the boundaries of the Cockpit Country UWI Centre of Environmental Management

Windsor Research Centre (2014) Cockpit Country Beauty

Windsor Research Centre (2014) Cockpit Country Carbon Sequestration Valuation Calculations

Windsor Research Centre (2014) Cockpit Country Forests

Windsor Research Centre (2014) Cockpit Country Pollinators

Windsor Research Centre (2014) Cockpit Country Water

Articles

Susan Koenig| Impact of bauxite mining on limestone ecosystems in Jamaica (April 24, 2022)

Patrece Charles| Public Health Impacts of the bauxite-alumina industry (April 10, 2022)

Horace Levy| Social Impacts of the Bauxite-alumina Industry (April 3, 2022)

Ernie Niemi | Social costs of bauxite-alumina production in Jamaica (March 27, 2022)

Anthony Greenaway | Environmental impact of bauxite-alumina industry: legislation and its implementation (March 20, 2022)

Diana McCaulay | On choosing not to know: The bauxite-alumina industry in Jamaica (March 13, 2022)

JET welcomes move to legally protect Cockpit Country but… (11/02/2022)

LETTER TO THE EDITOR (06/01/2022) Progress, not victory

Update | JET, Opposition demand buffer zone for Cockpit Country (January 5, 2022)

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | There is no Cockpit Country confusion (20/11/2021)

JET calls on Gov’t to honour its commitment not to allow mining in Cockpit Country (03/11/21)

Other

Natural Resources Conservation (Cockpit Country Protected Area) Order, 2022

Prime Minister’s 2022 Budget Presentation with announcement on the declaration of the Cockpit Country Protected Area (CCPA)

Statement by the Most Honourable Andrew Holness, Prime Minister to Parliament on the Delimitation of the Boundary of the Cockpit Country and the Cockpit Country Protected Area (November 2017)