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The ministries of Jamaica are created at the discretion of the prime minister of Jamaica to carry out the functions of government. As of 2016, the prime minister is Andrew Holness . The agencies of Jamaica are created by both parliamentary law and assigned to ministers to oversee.
Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions. [1] [2] House building permits, for example, are subject to building codes. There is also a "plan check" (PLCK) to check compliance with plans for the area ...
The Black river is 53.4 km long and is used for tourism, irrigation, and transporting trees to the Caribbean ports where they are then sent to England. [clarification needed] The Rio Minho is the longest river in Jamaica at nearly 93 km with headwaters originating in the geographic center of the country.
This is a list of rivers of Jamaica, ... Banana fields on the other side of the Rio Grande River. South Negril River [1] Unnamed [1] Middle River [1] Unnamed [1]
The act established that planning permission was required for land development; ownership alone no longer conferred the right to develop the land. [2] To control this, the Act reorganised the planning system from the 1,400 existing planning authorities to 145 (formed from county and borough councils), and required them all to prepare a comprehensive development plan.
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
Bull Bay is an area located on the southeast coast of Jamaica, 10 miles (16 km) to the east of Kingston on the border between St Andrew and St Thomas, beside Cow Bay. . According to folklore, both bays were so named because cattle once roamed the whole area and were slaughtered to provide food for buccaneers and English col
Confluence of the Negro River and the Otram, then known as the Port Maria Westernmost River, at Trinity plantation on an 1874 map. [1]The Negro River is a river in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, that joins the River Otram at Trinity before reaching the sea at the parish capital of Port Maria.